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USS Ponce in serious danger in Persian Gulf

By Stephen and Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. —Washington wants to avoid a confrontation with Iran, but faces two wild cards. First, Israel may find itself unable to forgo the use of force against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Second, the administration has reiterated that it, too, finds a nuclear-armed Iran “unacceptable,” and may have to take action […]

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen

SDJW makes bipartisan endorsements in local races

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Here are the endorsements of the San Diego Jewish World for local offices now being contested in San Diego County.  Our publication focuses on open seats and upon those several offices where the challenger seems preferable to the incumbent.  Comments, rebuttals, congratulations, and readers’  political commentary (so long as it is

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Donald H. Harrison

U.S. should cease its paramilitary aide to Palestinians

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), failed to win U.N. acceptance of Palestine as an independent state1.  This year, he lowered the bar to upgraded status within the U.N.  In the intervening year, Palestinian finances have collapsed, Palestinians have taken to the street to denounce

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Everyone’s a con artist in ‘Mauritius’ at Grossmont College

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius at the Stagehouse Theatre at Grossmont College wins this reviewer’s stamp of approval notwithstanding some reservations over a few technical issues and the use of far more “f-bombs” than really are necessary. The play will intrigue any philatelist as it revolves around the discovery

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Donald H. Harrison

‘The Good Friday Prayer’ challenges Catholic theology

The Good Friday Prayer by Howard Rubenstein (San Diego: Granite Hills Press, 2012); ISBN-10: 1929468237; 520 pages; $24:95; Rating 4* By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — When one considers all the new books that have appeared in the news about Jesus, Howard Rubinstein’s book, The Good Friday Prayer is one of the

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Four-generation novel follows pogrom’s victims’ families

Coming Home by Laurence Brown; ISBN: 978-1477591819; 431 pages plus appendices, retail price unlisted By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This is Australian novelist Laurence Brown’s second novel.  Previously he published Sicarri, a set of stories dealing with zealots and thugs who ruled through intimidation.   Coming Home is broader in scope, tracing a family

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Donald H. Harrison

Religion like rain: sometimes soft, sometimes murderous

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —Today in the news I came across the following article: · On September 18, 2012, Muhib Ru’yat Al-Rahman, a senior writer on leading jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam, suggested that   Muslims living in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.S. kill   Westerners and display their decapitated heads

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi