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

(Column No. 1, January 3, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison COUNTER MIDDLE EAST RALLIES–The Middle East conflict is coming to Balboa Park.  Palestinian and leftist organizations are planning a rally making Israel out to be the bad guys and the Hamas government in Gaza the good guys this coming Sunday.   But the intended media blitz […]

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

San Diego Jewish Film Festival: “The Yankles” is a baseball comedy

The Yankles directed by David R. Brooks, DZB Productions, color, 115 minutes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Do you have a child or grandchild who has a favorite bedtime story?  Even though he or she knows how the story turns out, the child likes to hear it again and again.  Repetition does not diminish the

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Donald H. Harrison

Jewish critics of Israel need to accept the facts of life

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel —  I never know whether to laugh or cry when I read those perennial complaints that things are getting worse, the country (no matter which) is going to the dogs and ‘fings ain’t wot they used to be.’ The trouble is that change happens, it is inevitable, we are

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Wex and Telushkin tell us about menshen and others

How to Be a Mentsh (& Not a Shmuck) by Michael Wex, HarperCollins, New York;  ISBN 978-0-06-177112-5 ©2009, $13.99, p. 178 plus notes and bibliography.  Hillel: If Not Now, When? by Joseph Telushkin, Nextbook, New York, ISBN 978-0-553-8052-4281-2, ©2010, $24.00, p. 217 plus notes and bibliography. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –Yiddish speakers are

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Book for preschoolers offers a health tip that adults could brush up on

Brush Barry Brush by Linda Valderrama, R.D.H.; illustrated by Sudi Memarzadeh, Shirley’s Gil Publications, ISBN 978-0-578-06605-9 51195; 29 pages including brushing chart with stickers, $11.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This book is for parents and grandparents to read to preschoolers.  Written by dental hygienist Linda Valderrama, who is a member of our

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education

Poems in ‘Finding Words’ will find your heart

Finding Words by Merle Feld, URJ Press, New York; ISBN 978-0-8074-1162-9, ©2010, $14.95,  86 pages. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Finding Words by Merle Feld, an award-winning author and playwright, is a book of poetry that pulls at the heartstrings. Feld’s poetry expresses her most intimate feelings on the significance of family and

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Fred Reiss, EdD

Violinist Schiff wins plaudits in her new hometown of Boston

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –I spent the entire month of October on the East Coast, book-ended by two concerts featuring my younger sister, Violinist Zina Schiff. On Saturday evening, October 2, in the New England Conservatory’s excellent Jordan Hall, Zina performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Longwood Symphony under the direction of Jonathan

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Eileen Wingard

This Torah collection brings out the Smiles

Torah Tapestries: Words of Wisdom Woven from the Weekly Parashah, Bereishis by Shira Smiles, Feldheim Publishers, New York; ISBN 978-1-59826-641-2, ©2010, $19.99, 201 pages plus bibliography, index, and glossary (Also available as a Kindle eBook)  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — In the Book of Deuteronomy (31:10-12), God commanded that every seventh year, at

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion