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(Column 10, January 17, 2011) __________ News topics _________ Rethinking American Jewish Education * San Diego Israel Coalition is actively promoting the appearance at Congregation Beth El of Rabbi Daniel Gordis, who will be delivering three lectures Feb. 11-12 as the Scholar in Residence.  On Friday evening following Shabbat Services, Gordis, senior vice president of […]

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

‘Battle of the two Talmuds’ looks at an ancient split between Israel and the Diaspora

Battle of the Two Talmuds: Judaism’s Struggle with Power, Glory, & Guilt by Leon H. Charney and Saul Mayzlish, Barricade Books, Fort Lee, NJ; ISBN 978-1-56980-439-1 ©2010, $22.95, p. 224 plus glossary By  Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — One does not need to listen to very many rabbinic sermons before he or she hears the words, “And the

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food

A bissel this, a bissel that…San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 9, January 12, 2011)  By Donald H. Harrison  __________________ Jewish Organizations ___________________ The Center for Jewish Culture is sponsoring a poets’ night at the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family JCC. at 7:30 p.m., Jan 18. Heading for the microphone are local poets Ron Horvitz, and husband and wife Howard

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Donald H. Harrison

A bissel this, a bissel that—San Diego Jewish news and chatter

  (Column 8, January 11, 2011)    By Donald H. Harrison   San Diego and Israel Boris Goldenberg, 20, grew up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with his mother and grandmother, knowing very little about his Jewish background.  However, at the age of 17, he started studying Hebrew at a local Jewish community center.  That led to

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

A bissel this, a bissel that—San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 7, January 10, 2011) By Donald H.Harrison Tributes to Debbie Friedman, z”l San Diego’s Agency for Jewish Education, commenting on the death of Jewish composer Debbie Friedman on Sunday, commented that “Debbie was a great friend of the AJE, having performed many concerts during the years of Jewish Education Week, and at other numerous

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Donald H. Harrison

A bissel this, a bissel that –San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 6, January 8, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison The Education Beat   * Send your kid to preschool and he or she is less likely to become a criminal.  So said  District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and Republican State Sen. Mark Wyland on a tour of the David & Jillian Gilmour Early Education Campus.  According

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

A bissel this, a bissel that—San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 5, January 7, 2011) Mount Soledad Controversy By Donald H. Harrison Two local Republican members of Congress- Brian Bilbray and Duncan Hunter—have written a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder urging them to defend the Mount Soledad cross as a “secular” monument and work to overturn a ruling by

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

A bissel this, a bissel that—San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 4, January 6, 2011)   By Donald H. Harrison San Diego and Israel Monica Bauer Federman, spokeswoman for the Anti-Defamation League, which always works closely with law enforcement agencies, says there will be a San Diego Police Department presence at the dueling Middle East rallies on Sunday afternoon in Balboa Park to make certain

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Amazing stories of Jonas Feurzeig’s abilities recounted at his funeral

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As speakers at his funeral told stories on Wednesday, Jan. 5,  of Jonas Feurzeig’s seemingly magical abilities,  more than a few attendees looked at his simple pine casket waiting to be lowered into a grave in the King David section of Greenwood Cemetery.  It would have been shocking,

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

A bissel this, a bissel that—Jewish news and chatter in San Diego

(January 5, 2011, Column 3)   By Donald H. Harrison   San Diego and Israel   Invitations are going out on Facebook from Tibi Zohar and other active members of the Jewish community to the Balboa Park demonstration planned by Israel advocates to counter another one planned by Palestinians and leftists in behalf of the

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Donald H. Harrison, Eileen Wingard, Lawrence Baron, San Diego County

A bissel this, a bissel that–Jewish news and chatter in San Diego

(Column No. 2, January 4, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison MAYORAL SPECULATION — Gary Rotto suggests the possibility of an all-Jewish runoff election for mayor of San Diego, with Congressman Bob Filner, a Democrat, facing District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a Republican, in the 2012 officially non-partisan race to succeed incumbent Mayor Jerry Sanders. Of the

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County