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By Donald H. Harrison HOLLYWOOD — We went to Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday, July 23, and had the uncanny feeling that we had never left San Diego– at least not the Convention Center area where Comic-Con is currently holding forth. Similiar to the mega event in San Diego, Hollywood Boulevard offers views of people […]
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Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Three commanding officers of the Star Trek television series pondered for a Comic-Con audience on Friday, July 22, what has made the science fiction show remain popular over four decades. William Shatner joined Avery Brooks and Scott Bakula at a press conference at the San Diego Convention
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Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Two years after surprising animator Bill Plympton with his ability to mimic Plympton’s drawing style, 11-year-old Perry Chen is making his debut at Comic-Con as the animator of a 6-minute Holocaust short, Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest. Chen will appear on a panel with his mentor
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, Germany will provide Israel with its sixth Dolphin-class nuclear-capable submarine and subsidize the deal with 135 million Euros. The magazine notes that Germany “donated” the first two submarines after the first Gulf War and split the cost of the third. Sort
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International, Shoshana Bryen
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It would be hard to estimate how many of the hundreds of persons who attended the outdoor concert of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra on Sunday evening, July 17, at the Allied Gardens Community Center knew the meaning of the Yiddish word haimische, but all of them
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Obama administration is withholding $800 million of the $2 billion in current aid to Pakistan, angry over the (limited) level of Pakistani pursuit of Taliban elements attacking U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The United States believes intelligence information provided to Pakistan has been shared with insurgents
U.S. alienating allies in Middle East Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Eileen Wingard Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — In February, 2002, Neal Brastoff brought the Los Angeles instrumental ensemble, Zimro, to participate in the Celebrating Jewish Music Series at the the Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla, programming Yehudi Wyner’s Tants un Maysele for violin, clarinet, cello and piano. It was a highlight of that
Quintessence of Yehudi Wyner’s Jewish music now on CD Read More »
Eileen WingardBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some of the top leadership of the organized Jewish community of San Diego turned out for a service to memorialize Steven Weening, 64, and to comfort his wife, Leslie, who had been a long-serving executive assistant to the director of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, and
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Gosh, maybe we should have a local San Diego column called “Jews in the news.” Let’s see, a showdown is coming at the San Diego City Council over Irwin Jacobs’ offer to fund a controversial project to take cars off the Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park. …
In San Diego, Jews make news Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Quite often, you want to shout “Mazel Tov” to the people whose accomplishments you admire! Me, I’m lucky to be able also to publish the words. –To Dr. Joel Moskowitz, frequent contributor to San Diego Jewish World, who has received a plaque of appreciation from the San Diego chapter
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Donald H. Harrison
The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st-Century Spirituality in Judaism’s 5,000-Year-Old Tradition by Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold, Jewish Lights, Woodstock, VT; ISBN 978-1-58023-443-6 ©2011, $15.99, p. 129 plus Appendix By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California — The Jews of seventeenth century Amsterdam repudiated Baruch Spinoza and his philosophy, which rejected much of traditional
A naturalist rabbi tells her God concept Read More »
Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion[Note: AFP reports that a French yacht carrying 12 pro-Palestinian activists hoping to run the Israeli blockade on Gaza was on Thursday blocked in Crete by the Greek coast guard when it stopped to refuel.] By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations is preparing to release its report on the 2010 Gaza flotilla
Turkey and Israel ponder U.N. report on 2010 Flotilla Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Eileen Wingard Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of the greatest exponent of the Yiddish Art Song, Lazar Weiner (1897-1982). His settings of folk songs, and his original music for the work of contemporary Yiddish poets, followed in the tradition of lieder composers such as Schubert, Schumann
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Eileen Wingard
By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – As the aroma of kosher hot dogs and hamburgers wafted from the barbecues on the parking lot of Ner Tamid Synagogue in the early evening of July 4th, Rabbi Nadav Caine and congregational president Mitchell Freedman, each in turn, contemplated how American ideals reflect those articulated in Jewish
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA