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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California– Omri Schein, lyricist/writer and actor is currently starring as Benjamin Cohen (who tells his German landlord the name is spelled with a ‘K’) in North Coast Rep Theater’s The Underpants. This play, written by Carl Sternheim, was adapted by Steve Martin whose trademark wit and timing are eminently evident. […]
North Coast Rep productions brightly Schein Read More »
Eva Trieger
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — San Diego Jewish World‘s Editor/ Publisher Don Harrison is proud (or else must go on a diet, which Don’s supporters know he is incapable of) of his wife Nancy’s mandelbread, but ensured a favorable verdict by using his family – under the eye of Nancy – to taste Papa Ben’s Kitchen
By Eileen Wingard PORTLAND, Oregon–Swiss-born composer, Ernest Bloch, is considered to be the greatest 20th century figure to incorporate Jewish motifs into his music. One may safely say that every recognized violinist, today, knows his Baal Shem Suite; every violist has studied the Suite Hebraique; and every cello soloist includes Bloch’s inspiring Shelomo in his
On the trail of Ernest Bloch Read More »
Eileen Wingard
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This article is about a new line of mandelbread, but as background let me share with you some sage advice I heard while covering an effort by San Diego State University, the local Hansen Institute for World Peace and Israel’s Peres Peace Center to broker an arrangement between Palestinian
Taste-testing a new mandelbroyt line Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — A petite lady with short dark hair and amazing green eyes called out my name as I entered the café at the Israel Museum where we had agreed to meet, never having set eyes on one another before. “You just looked like someone who would be called Dorothea,” she said
Becky Guttin installing sculpture in Israel Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–Jerusalem and the resettlement of Palestinian refugees disappeared from the Democratic Party platform; language that characterized Hamas as unacceptable to the United States — not only to Israel — disappeared. Jerusalem is back. But the crucial part of the Democratic Party Platform for Israel is related only tangentially to Israel. It
Iran not close to a bomb? That’s what CIA said about Russia Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin Books, 2012, 360 pages, ISBN 978-1-61620-132-6, $23.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This work of fiction is a compelling story in which the events of three time periods are laced through a single narrative, then tied up together in a literary bow. Novelist Shapiro sustains interest, remarkably
Art mystery keeps you in suspense as you learn Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SANTA ANA — Wounded Army National Guard Sgt. Ivan Garcia received a Purple Heart on Saturday, Sept. 8. The day before, Garcia’s civilian colleagues at Waxie Sanitary Supply in Santa Ana gathered to express their heartfelt relief that he had managed to come home to them alive from Afghanistan. Waxie’s
A grateful company welcomes its wounded warrior home Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California –I have a confession to make. Most people who know me at least fairly well already know that I am conservative in my political leanings. But with that being said I am very proud to be able to call many of my closest friends liberal Democrats. In fact, I
It’s a blessing that Jews are in both parties Read More »
USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –In Yiddish we say, “A Mentsch tracht, Gott lacht,” which can be translated as, “Man plans, God laughs.” If Heaven has sitcoms for the angels and God to watch, life on planet Earth must be really funny at times. God must be feeling relieved. Getting booed from
God must be feeling relieved Read More »
Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA
By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Over the past two weeks we have again witnessed some of the great machinery of American Democracy at work; the conventions of the Republican and Democratic Parties. The conventions have certainly become highly entertaining, and frankly, fun to follow. The festive and positive atmospheres, which are buoyed by
God and Jerusalem returned to platform on fortuitous date Read More »
USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –“I don’t want to be complicit if they (Israelis) choose to do it (attack Iran’s nuclear program),” said Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey. News flash, General Dempsey: You are complicit in the way that counts; you are trapped: the Iranian leadership does not care what we say — or what
Dempsey is ‘complicit’ in downgrading U.S.-Israel relations Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel JERUSALEM — Let me begin with the good news first. The Democratic Party platform reinstated the importance of Jerusalem to our country’s values and principles—along with God too! Now comes the bad news. Although the section of Jerusalem was reinstated, the sections pertaining to the Palestinian refugees and the terrorist
Something not kosher about DNC Jerusalem fiasco Read More »
Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Herb Targum SAN DIEGO — It was a catered first anniversary party for the San Diego chapter of Stand With Us but for most of the evening, Wednesday, Sept. 5, the mood of the estimated 500 guests was far from celebratory as the substitute main speaker, Wall Street
Stand With Us speaker calls for military action against Iran Read More »
Donald H. Harrison