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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Scientists at the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University of the Negev are making strides in their quest to make the world’s deserts more productive by increasing their yields of energy, food and water, Pedro Berliner, director of the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research told about 50 people Tuesday […]
Can the desert be made to yield more water, food and energy? Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, the White House pulled the props out from under the military government in Cairo, calling for it to yield power. Now. “The United States strongly believes that the new Egyptian government must be empowered with real authority immediately…we believe that the full transfer of power to a
Rational Egyptians, haters and the U.S. government Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It is almost becoming a genre in itself. Instead of journeying through space, the final frontier, in a quest for exploration, people intimately associated with Star Trek explore the various permutations of the old television series in a quest for self-exploration. We recently had Captains, in which William
Of Guns, Revenge and Hope by D. Lawrence-Young, Gefen Publishing House, 289 pages, ISBN 9789652295330, price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Although he was killed before I was born, when I first started practicing journalism 50 years ago, I found my hero. His name was Ernie Pyle. He was a war correspondent during
Novel’s focus on foot soldier like Pyle’s reportage Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
Nimpentoad by Henry, Josh and Harrison Herz, with illustrations by Sean Eddingfield and Bill Maus, 20 pages, ISBN 9781466463042, price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — A tribe of Niblings must navigate its way through 15 miles of forest infested with monsters of various sorts who have one thing especially in common.
Father and sons spin an adventure tale Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
Inside Hana’s Suitcase directed by Larry Weinstein, Menemsha Films, 90 minutes, DVD on sale Dec. 6. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–The world might not know the name Hana Brady except for the fact that a replica of the suitcase which the 13-year-old girl carried on the train from the Theresienstadt concentration camp to Auschwitz
‘Inside Hana’s Suitcase’ unites children around the world Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Once upon a time, some American tourists went to Mexico on a vacation; they toured some hot springs, where they saw the natives washing their clothes! One tourist said to his guide, “My, isn’t it wonderful how Mother Nature provides her children with hot water to wash
Mindfulness and the Art of Thanksgiving Read More »
Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA
Why be Jewish? by Doron Kornbluth, Mosaica Press, 2011, ISBN 0-9814974-7-0; 312 pages, price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–As a reader I found myself reacting both negatively and positively to this book. Why negatively? Because after reading the first paragraph of the acknowledgements, I knew that much of what I would read
Why tell made-up stories about being Jewish? Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Many of us have seen the previews– or in some cases the actual television episodes — of The Biggest Loser in which very heavy people, through diet and exercise, compete to shed the most weight. The TV show–complete with tears and hugs of those who have transformed their
Comedy explores serious subject of body image Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Moshe Arens, Geffen Publishing House, 406 pages including index and appendices, ISBN 9652295279978, price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Given Moshe Arens’ credentials as a serious student of world affairs, who had served both as defense minister and as
Has history been fair to ALL the Warsaw Ghetto defenders? Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of Erich Fromm’s most penetrating insights pertains to his distinction between authoritarian vs. humanistic religion. Fromm’s You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Tradition is one of the most remarkable books I have ever read on the early
Healing our dysfunctional images of God Read More »
Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel – Reading the recent review of the Chula Vista production of the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, I was taken back twenty-five years, to the year I spent in Lincoln, Nebraska, where my husband was teaching at the University. The Cliff’s Notes publisher of booklets intended to
The Via Dolorosa of Anne Frank Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-VansonTeenagers Educated The Village Way by Chaim Peri, The World: The Values Network, 2011, ISBN 978-257-06206-5, 217 pages, $18. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In challenging numerous orthodoxies, this book is likely to make readers think and educators and psychologists re-think. Peri, longtime headmaster of the Yemin Orde school and youth village on
It takes a village? Book tells Israeli village’s methods for helping troubled teens Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California — I’d have expected my grandson Shor to relate most closely to either the characters of Peter Van Daan (Mitchell Pfitzmeier), Anne Frank (Lucia Vecchio), or Margot Frank (Rachel Throesch) as he watched the play, The Diary of Anne Frank at the Onstage Playhouse because Shor
For another generation learning Anne Frank’s story, Otto inspires admiration Read More »
Carol Davis, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast