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Below are the names of writers who are currently active.  For others, living and deceased, please type their name into the search box above the masthead on our home page, www.sdjewishworld.com

Three generations of commanding officers probe Star Trek’s popularity

  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

11-year-old animator’s Holocaust film debuts at Comic-Con

    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

Jewish leadership turns out for Steve Weening’s memorial

By 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 County

Mazel tov! Mazel tov!

By 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

A naturalist rabbi tells her God concept

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

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Marking July 4th with Jewish and alternative histories

    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