By Bonnie Baron SAN DIEGO — Ellen Berger will be among numerous artists and crafters at the Artisan Festival 2014 at Temple Emanu-El, 6299 Capri Drive on Sunday, Nov.2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Women for Reform Judaism has issued an invitation for the public to meet 55 exhibitors, including Berger who was originally a textile […]
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There are several hot spots around Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are squabbling about the cancellation of school trips to the Holy City on account of the violence. Jerusalem politicians are calling their coastal colleagues unpatriotic. Almost all of the problems are on the edges of Palestinian or Arab
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Maybe it’s because this travesty happened in the very heart—literally—of Canada, a land where I once lived and in which my first daughter was born. In the second such jihadist-driven act of murder there in one week, an emotionally-poisoned gunman invaded the halls of Ottawa’s parliamentary plaza and
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InternationalBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — When it comes to living really well, many confuse doing so with looking good, feeling good, or having the goods. This leads people to chase after such goods as fake tans, plastic surgery, feel good drugs, virtual friendships, the mansion on the hill—preferably overlooking the water, making
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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Tragedies, however horrific, have a way of teaching trauma doctors at the Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem in Jerusalem new medical facts and procedures, its chief orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Rami Mosheiff, on Sunday, Oct. 26, told a Southern California gathering of the Hadassah support organization at the Hotel del Coronado.
Emergencies spur innovative surgeries at Hadassah Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California –Nancy and I arrived a bit earlier than necessary for the grand Shabbat service and dinner on Friday, Oct. 24, at Congregation Adat Yeshurun, watching the hustle and bustle as caterers prepared meals and set up tables in a large tent for the hundreds of people who would
An Orthodox Shabbat through non-Orthodox eyes Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–Since the tragic murder of 3 month old infant Chaya Zissel Braun on Wednesday evening, Palestinians across East Jerusalem have been rioting in various locations. Silwan, A-tur, Beit Hanina, Shuafat, and the Arab Quarter of the Old City have seen near-continuous rioting. Masked teens and young adults have been throwing rocks,
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Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ As the world spins out of control, these new reality shows are being readied for broadcast. * Survivor: Three contestants will be parachuted into areas ISIS occupies. One will be wearing a cross and an American flag lapel pin; the second will be wearing a Jewish star and an Israeli
Humoring the headlines: October 26, 2014 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –Joe Kashnow, Baltimore native, enlisted in the United States Army in 2002. He was stationed in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division of Colorado. He had a dream of becoming a Comanche pilot, manning helicopters. One year later, Kashnow was the victim of roadside bomb. By 2005, the young
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Ivo Lederer was a refugee in a group of European Jews given special passage by ship to the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, and he later went on to became a well-known Russian and Eastern European scholar in America. He also gave the
American storyteller ‘just sleeps, eats in other places’ Read More »
Travel and FoodBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO –Suppose Moses had turned west instead of east after leaving Egypt? Suppose the Ten (Lost) Tribes swept off to slavery in Assyria eventually escaped and continued eastward all the way to Japan? In the realm of all things are possible – both are interesting posits. In The Japanese and the
Rethinking two major Jewish travel stories Read More »
International, Jewish History
Pepper, Silk & Ivory By Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Ellen Rodman, PhD, © 2014, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-647-4; 316 pages including index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –When friends question me about whether I really think “There is a Jewish Story Everywhere,” as the motto of San Diego Jewish World insists, I shall
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Prof. Lawrence “Laurie” Baron, emeritus professor of history at San Diego State University and a regular contributor to San Diego Jewish World, has been appointed the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies by the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey. In the fall semester of 2015 at the college
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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Every once in a while someone new starts reading my columns, and responds with an expression of frustration. Usually it’s something like, “Dammit, what’s your solution?” Read my lips. There ain’t any. In politics one should never say never, but in this case there is close to a century of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East