Rule of Capture by Ona Russell, Sunstone Press, © 2015, 336 pages, ISBN 978-1-63293-047-7. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This is the third novel by Ona Russell featuring a Jewish, mystery-solving probate officer from Ohio named Sarah Kaufman, who can sense crime and cover-up but admittedly has flawed judgment when it comes to the men she
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel has long been described as the one democracy in the Middle East. It remains that, no matter how critics try to twist policies they do not like into a condemnation of the process that created them. Now it’s also an island of relative calm between two serious wars that
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor Masori ST AUGUSTINE, Florida — In this, the oldest European city of North America settled by Spaniards in 1565, I wondered whether any of the earliest soldiers might have been conversos — that is, former Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism in order to remain
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Story by David Ogul; photos by Michael Mantell SAN DIEGO — This city does not have money for a new, publicly funded, $1.1-billion football stadium that backers hope will keep the Chargers from bolting to Los Angeles, City Councilmember Marti Emerald told several dozen people at a Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club dinner Wednesday night.
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David Ogul, Michael Mantell, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions