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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

Musical midrash included in J*Company’s retelling of Genesis tales

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The J Company’s presentation of Children of Eden, a delightful musical by Stephen Schwartz, served as a fitting vehicle for the Company’s talented students–over 100 in two casts. The J Company Director, Joey Landwehr, participated in the performance of the biblical saga as the off-stage voice of the […]

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Eileen Wingard

San Diegans helping El Salvador villagers to obtain drinkable water in Engineers-Without-Borders project

Editor’s Note: This story focusing on El Salvador is the fourth in the World-At-Home series, in which we attempt to  “travel” around the world without ever leaving San Diego County .   By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Tim Boelke and Eugene Kaneko, respectively the founding and current presidents of the local chapter of Engineers

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Donald H. Harrison

Obama’s ’67 formula hurts Jordan as well as Israel

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Most of the aggravated commentary about President Obama’s digression from the stirring winds of change in the Arab world into the details of Palestinian statehood have to do with the 1949 Armistice Line, or 1967 line – the western line of Palestine – and whether the President changed U.S. policy.

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

SDSU archaeologists restored Maya royal residence in Belize

Editor’s Note:  This is the second installment in our World-At-Home series, in which we endeavor to show that one can travel to every country of the world without ever leaving San Diego County – provided that one is willing to attend lectures, visit museums, go to ethnic festivals and take advantage of other diverse and manifold

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Donald H. Harrison

San Diego celebrates Israel’s 63rd birthday

Story and Photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The Jewish Federation and scores of affiliated communal organizations celebrated Israel’s Independence Day on Sunday, May 15, at a new, more public, location than in past years, seeking to draw the general public’s attention both to Israel’s cause and to the variety of interests represented within the

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County

Jewish poetry readings delight at Astor Judaica Library

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Some remarkable treasures of poetic talent were unearthed during this year’s Jewish Poets —Jewish Voices evenings! This third year of the poetry series in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center included local song writers as well as local poets. On February 22, Mexican-born

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Eileen Wingard

Grossmont’s ESL classes provide path to higher learning, jobs

        By Donald H. Harrison   EL CAJON, California – At Grossmont College, more than 40 full-time and part-time faculty members instruct some 700 students in English-As-A-Second-Language.  You might think of these ESL teachers as an American welcoming committee.  They are a generally kind-hearted cadre who help their students to navigate in

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Donald H. Harrison

Pope’s book on Jesus important interreligious document

Jesus of Nazareth, Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Joseph Ratzinger, Ignatius, San Francisco;  ISBN 978-1-58617-500-9 ©2011, $24.95, p. 293 plus appendices By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Nearly two thousand books on the Amazon website are linked to the words Jesus and Passion. With so many books one might wonder

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Palestinian reconciliation is harbinger of more extremism

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Washington Post editorialized that in response to the Hamas-Fatah “reconciliation,” the Obama administration “will need a new strategy. Its first priority should be to prevent a renewal of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed after two years of relative calm. That will mean insisting that West Bank Palestinian security forces continue to

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen