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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Outside the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park stand two large, fanciful sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle, an internationally celebrated sculptor who lived in La Jolla in the final years of her life. One created in 1998 from glass, stones, mirrors and polyester, called “Poet and […]
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By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California—Between La Mesa Boulevard in the heart of this city’s business district and the Allison Avenue Municipal Parking Lot which serves as a venue for Farmers Markets held on Friday afternoons is an innovative walkway in which murals celebrate volunteerism and stars on the sidewalk honor local volunteers. This
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — This may not seem like the best time to open a discussion of the “two state solution,” but it may well be the best time to call the Palestinians’, and the world’s, bluff and put the necessary discussion of Gaza and the future of the blockade on a more serious
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Adjacent to the U.S. Grant School in the Mission Hills neighborhood of San Diego is the remnant of a Catholic cemetery containing the headstones of some pioneer San Diegans who knew the American President for whom the school is named. Among those who lie buried in the
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Lately I have been mixing into my reading “YA” fiction – fiction for Young Adults. I have been experimenting with the idea of writing such a story myself, and by reading the works of other authors in this genre, I hope to get a feeling for YA rhythm and
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By Donald H. Harrison MOUNT ISRAEL, California—This foothill in San Diego County has been “partitioned. ” Approaching it from Lake Hodges on its south and east, it still is known as Mount Israel. However, its more-rural northeastern slope overlooking Olivenhain Dam and Reservoir is described today as part of the Elfin Forest Recreational Area.
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –As a result of a chance encounter at Lod airport at the beginning of the year I met Robi Damelin, spokesperson for the Parents Circle – Bereaved Families Forum, the group uniting Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families in an effort to attain peace, reconciliation and tolerance. Robi was struggling
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Long time readers know, and have generously supported, Fran O’Brien’s dinners for soldiers, primarily amputees, recovering from their wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital. The dinners, which take place outside of the hospital, began in 2004 and offer recovering soldiers a chance to socialize, eat a
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The visitors center at Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is in the Robinson-Rose Building. It is named for James W. Robinson and Louis Rose, two pioneer San Diegans who met on a wagon train, became friends, and within a few years of their arrival in San
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–It was North Korea that torpedoed a South Korean submarine-an internationally recognized act of war that killed 46 South Korean sailors. It wasn’t an accident. As follow-on, North Korea announced that any act of retaliation by the South would be considered a provocation. When the South Korean
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A visit to the dinosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum of San Diego can provide the so-called mighty human with a humbling perspective. Creatures in the air, on land and in the sea all might have regarded him as nothing more than a tasty lunch. Luckily for man, he
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & EducationEmpowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, Jewish Lights Publishing, ISBN 978-1-58023-412-2, ©2010, $18.99, p. 161 + appendices. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–The word minyan in Jewish ritual corresponds to the idea of a quorum. Minyan means having at least ten men assembled together
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Fred Reiss, EdD
By Donald H. Harrison JULIAN, California – Whites who had been slaveholders and blacks who had been slaves contributed to the early history of Julian. Today, in the colorful mountain town of gold mines, apples and antiques, both groups of people as well as other ethnic groups are remembered and honored. One of
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By Donald H. Harrison CARLSBAD, Calif—Although Leo Carrillo had become a fairly well known star on Broadway, it wasn’t until after Sam Warner talked him into becoming a movie actor that his fame became international. With earnings from the movies, Carrillo was able to purchase in 1937 a large ranch in the hills of
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