Book Review: ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’

Giraffes on Horseback Salad by Josh Frank and Tim Heideker, illustrations by Manuela Pertega; © 2019 Quirk Books, ISBN 9781594-749230, 222 pages including biographical and explanatory notes and appendices. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Try to picture the words in this book’s title: “Giraffes on Horseback Salad.”  Can you picture it?  A giraffe astride […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Hillel at Santa Barbara promotes campus harmony

  Story by Donald H. Harrison; site photos by Shor M. Masori ISLA VISTA, California – The news media often finds it easier to focus on bad news than on good news.  Bad news is more dramatic.  It’s easier to tell.  It makes more compelling reading.  Take the weather for instance.  A storm will make

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, USA

Malashock, Kontras in ‘High Strung’ alliance

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Music has a way of altering one’s mood and attitude. Dance possesses the capacity to shift one’s perspective while releasing inhibition.  The marriage of the two art forms creates nothing less than magical storytelling. Malashock Dance and the Kontras Quartet intertwine their gifts to bring San Diegans High Strung,

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Eva Trieger, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Operatic soloist thrills at TICO concert

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — TICO’s April 2 concert in Patrick Henry High School’s beautiful on-campus concert hall, PHAME, opened with a spirited rendition of Aaron Copland’s Outdoor Overture. The violins were admirably incisive in their opening attack and the other sections, under Conductor David Amos’ precise beats and careful cues, made their complex

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Book Review: ‘Gentle Judaic Wisdom’

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel’s book Gentle Judaic Wisdom is a brilliant work, very wise, easy to read, and deceptively simple. The book is filled with quotes that have significant information. It is a rich cornucopia of wisdom quoted from sources such as the Torah, Mishna, Tosephta,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Book Review: ‘The Restless Hungarian’

The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and the American Dream by Tom Weidlinger; Spark Press, ISBN 9781943-006960; 278 pages plus photo credits, index, and acknowledgments; $16.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It did not take me very long to decide that I did not like structural engineer Paul Weidlinger, who is the subject of

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

How about a job in Israel?

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Masa Israel Journey has announced the launch of Masa FastTrack Pro, a cutting-edge program that will serve as a pipeline for elite young professionals to be placed in Israel’s booming job market. This selective program is the first-of-its-kind for Masa, and is geared towards high-performing college graduates demonstrating a competitive

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Middle East, Travel and Food