By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A favorite old story of mine (okay, almost all my favorite stories are old), tells of the four Moskowitz brothers – Lowell, Norman, Hyman and Max – who develop what is the prototype of the modern automobile air conditioner. They take their idea to Henry Ford, who is very […]
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Joel H. Cohen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Trump’s speeches, and what has happened since, remind us once again about the marginality of Jews. Some may feel comfortable, and justly, given his realism about Jerusalem the Western Wall, and non-Israeli sources of problems throughout the Middle East. But Muslims, and Europeans, are rabid, or upset about what he
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Effective January 1, 2018, pursuant to Senate Bill 2 (SB2 –Atkins) certain documents for recording at your County Recorder office will be charged an additional $75 fee that can go as high as $225 per transaction above the current recording fees. San Diego County Assessor/Recorder/Clerk Ernest J. Dronenburg reminded constituents
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San Diego CountySan Diego Jewish Film Festival will include 37 feature films plus 21 shorts to be shown Feb. 8-18 at four different locations in San Diego County. WHAT: The San Diego Jewish Film Festival presented by San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS; www.sdjff.org WHEN: Thursday, February
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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastRemembering and Forgetting Names (c) Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — We lived in Nebraska for 42 years. In 2016 we moved to Richmond on the East Bay in Northern California to be near our children and grandchildren, and less extreme weather. Long driveways, tending the lawn and trees, shoveling snow, borrowing tools, wine on back
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Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodThe Great Shift: Encountering God In Biblical Times by James L. Kugel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, © 2017, ISBN 978-0-544-52055-4, p. 344, plus notes and appendices, $30 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – In the mid-nineteenth century Charles Darwin proposed that any species unable to adapt to its dynamic environment is doomed to extinction.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled San Diego Councilmember Barbara Bry as guest speaker at the 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 17 Dinner Forum where she will discuss “Keeping San Diego Safe, Clean, and Prosperous”. Councilmember Bry was elected to the City Council in 2016 and represents San Diego District 1
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San Diego CountyBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Ah the holidays! The smell of pine needles, presents under the tree, singing carols, lighting the menorah, children home from college filling the house with activity and joy … Maybe not—perhaps these are just memories. The reality for too many of our aging population is being alone,
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He Could Make Words Sing: An Ordinary Man During Extraordinary Times by David Greene, © 2017 DCG Publishing; ISBN 980998-018201; 193 pages plus endnotes; $17.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – History teacher David Greene has written a combination social history and biography of his father-in-law, Harry Greissman, an advertising man. We come
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — According to the Talmud, we are commanded to feed our animals before we feed ourselves. It doesn’t say anything about giving gifts to our pets before giving presents to our human family members, but many Jews include their pets in the Chanukkah gift giving. Which of the following
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Cabrillo National Monument will be increasing the daily park entrance fee on January 1, 2018 for non-commercial vehicles. The commercial vehicle fees are not changing. The new rates for vehicles will be $15.00 per vehicle (good for everyone in the vehicle,) walk-ins/bicyclists $7.00 per person and motorcycles will be $10.00.
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San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The Trump Administration has asked the Centers for Disease Control to stop using the words “diversity,” “fetus,” “transgender,” “science-based” and “evidence-based.” It will replace diversity with labeled homogeneity-challenged, fetus with in utero little person, transgender with perverse abomination, science-based with empirical hoax, and evidence-based with fabricated. * The Department of Energy
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire