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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A few weeks ago, we noted the impending $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, plus $35 billion to $40 billion in contracts signed by the UAE, Oman’s expected $12 billion purchase and $7 billion in planned purchases by Kuwait. We were amused by State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley’s […]
U.S. should allow timely deliveries of F-35s to Israel Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California– Grossmont College Theatre Arts Prof. Jerry Hager wrote and directed Tin, an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s short story “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” that will be taken on tour at local elementary schools from now through Dec. 9. Like many fairy tales, it has an important lesson. Previewed
‘Tin’ has comforting message for elementary school students Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of Lebanon from Bosnia without apparent irony. “The United States supports the integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. We reject any efforts to destabilize or inflame tensions within Lebanon,” she said, according to the BBC. “We would hope that no visitor would do anything
U.S. has lost the battle for Lebanon to Iran Read More »
Shoshana BryenBy Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – In the J*Company’s current production of Fiddler on the Roof, there are 85 performers, some 50 or so more than the Broadway show or the movie had speaking parts for. An important challenge for director Joey Landwehr was to devise meaningful roles for these child actors and
Some fine-tuning of the ‘Fiddler’ by J’Company Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Middle East analyst, author and columnist Barry Rubin, a former U.S. Senate aide who founded an international affairs research institute in Herzliya, sometimes engages in “what happens the day after” speculation. What happens the day after Iran gets a nuclear bomb? he pondered during his visit to San Diego
Middle East columnist ponders two ‘day after’ scenarios Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USASAN DIEGO — San Diego Jewish World is delighted to recommend two Democratic members of our Jewish community for your consideration on the November 2 ballot: State Assemblyman Marty Block for reelection in the 78th Assembly District , and former State Assemblyman Howard Wayne for the open 6th District of the San Diego City Council. Both
Endorsements: Block for Assembly; Wayne for San Diego City Council Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
God’s Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo, HarperCollins Publishers, New York; ISBN 978-0-06-173284-3, ©2010, $16.99, p. 536 plus appendix. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –By-and-large, encyclopedias are boring to read. As the old saw goes, their plot
Lunacy is other people’s religion’s–and ours? Read More »
Fred Reiss, EdDBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — How long did the Administration think the Pakistani government could or would let the Allies kill people in their country? True, most of the people we’re killing are as much or more of a threat to Pakistan than they are to the United States – we, after all, can leave
U.S., Pakistan have different needs in Afghan conflict Read More »
Shoshana Bryen
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM–As a child in London in the 1950s I enjoyed listening to the radio on the days that I managed to persuade my mother that I was too ill to go to school. Somewhere between ‘Whistle While you Work’ and ‘Mrs. Dale’s Diary’ was a programme where someone with a German accent
Bird Watching in Jerusalem Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — His was an odd speech for a President. He stood before the world and trashed the United States. “The blocks and neighborhoods of this great city tell the story of a difficult decade,” he said of New York, beginning with the attack on the World Trade Center and through the economic
Dissecting President Obama's U.N. speech Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USATanya, the Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom: Sections Annotated and Explained by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Skylight Paths Publishing, Woodstock, NY (Forward by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi); ISBN 978-1-59473-275-1, ©2010, $16.99, p. 165, plus appendices, Available in Kindle edition By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Jews were the middlemen between the gentry and the underclass in
'Tanya' provides insight into Chassidic thought Read More »
Fred Reiss, EdDPenelope’s Daughter by Laurel Corona, Berkeley Publishing Group, 2010, 358 pages including glossary, afterword and reader’s guide, $15. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Readers may be charmed by this story and yet find it controversial. Prize-winning author Laurel Corona, who often writes book reviews for San Diego Jewish World, has written another novel, Penelope’s Daughter,
San Diego author tells the rest of the story of 'The Odyssey' Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –On the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and the yartzeit this month of more than 2,500 Israel soldiers who gave their lives in a war for the very survival of the State and the protection of their homes and families, the United States has nearly completed the turn of
U.S. has turned 180 degrees in its Israel policy Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Eighteen segments are featured in Alan Oren’s remarkable documentary about the Kol Nidre prayer, “Eighteen Voices Sing Kol Nidre, Secrets of a Sacred Chant.” Not all are musical voices. There are the Chassidic Rabbi telling a Kol Nidre tale by the Baal Shem Tov, and Neil Levin, from the
The musical staying power of Kol Nidre Read More »
Eileen Wingard