Story and Photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — While the political situation for asylum seekers who come to the United States’ southern border seemingly changes day by day, Mimi Pollack, 65, and Paula Sassi, 71, are among the few constants. Twice a week since last July, the two women have driven […]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Professor Samuel J. Levine compares many Jewish laws with American laws that address the same issues in two 2018 volumes of Jewish Law and American Law.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, USA
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Abraham Goldfaden’s beautiful melody, Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen, opened the Jewish Poets of the Past program, in an arrangement for violin and viola, in which my daughter Myla Wingard played violin, and I played the viola. This presentation, March 5, at the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County
Division Ave, produced by Lorena Rodriguez, Michal Birnbaum and Nadav Remez, 2019, Spanish, English, Yiddish, 14.5 minutes; to be screened during the San Diego Latino Film Festival on Saturday, March 23, at 3:30 p.m., at AMC Fashion Valley 18 (Screen 9), 7037 Friars Road, San Diego. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This short
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel –There is an expression that people can be identified by the company they keep. Rashida Tlaib was elected to the House of Representatives in a district with a constituency whose culture and issues she shares and now projects within the United States Congress. She celebrated her arrival into the American
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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USA
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Travel and Food
By Beth Kieffer Leonard Jewish Democratic Council of America MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesotans are no strangers to political trailblazing; however, we are also known for honesty and kindness. Representative Ilhan Omar is certainly a trailblazer, yet her recent anti-Semitic tweets and statements are deeply offensive. They have caused consternation among Minnesota voters, including myself, not
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Middle East, USABy Bernie Sanders WASHINGTON, D.C. — As we launch this campaign for president, you deserve to know where I come from – because family history heavily influences the values that we adopt as adults. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, in a three-and-a-half room rent-controlled apartment. My father was a paint salesman
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USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915, Australia, from a nautical standpoint, was approximately 3,500 miles closer to California than New York was. Goods brought by ship from the American East Coast had to travel a longer route, all the way down the eastern coast of
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The Jewish Agency for Israel has announced its first-ever mission to Mexico, May 22-27, in order to gain a more thorough perspective about Jewish life in the United States’ neighboring country. As the American Jewish community continues to grapple with several challenges related to Jewish identity, the inaugural mission to Mexico
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International, Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Eva M. Trieger SAN DIEGO — This city is home to a few Jewish day schools and each one has a special niche. I only recently became aware of the incredible aspects of Torah High, the only girls-only Jewish high school available to the community. What makes this school unique? In his office crowded
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Once again, July Galper is the local empresario bringing two outstanding young Israeli musicians to perform in San Diego, Tal First, violin and Ilya Laskin, piano. Their program will take place in the sanctuary of Congregation Beth El in La Jolla on Sunday evening, March 10, 7:00 p.m.
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County