By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO –For over forty years of my life I began my day (6 days a week) with a morning ballet class. Learning to dance is only part of the matrix that one learns in such a class and my life was changed by that experience. I often feel like a survivor
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Jewish ReligionBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Mona Golabek, the brilliant pianist, author and actress, is excited to return to San Diego for the reengagement of her prize-winning, one-woman play, The Pianist of Willesden Lane. From July 8-26, at the Lyceum Stage in Horton Plaza, she will again portray her mother, Lisa Jura. In 1938, as a
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish History
By Donald H. Harrison WASHINGTON, D.C — Reflecting on a long career, and what she still would like to do in Congress, Rep. Susan Davis (D-California) suggested that she is more a social worker than a politician, which results in her having a different perspective on many issues. She met with my grandson, Shor, 14,
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The word terror connects with the anxiety that comes from violence that targets civilians. A bus or restaurant that a suicide bomber selects for his or her sacrifice, a roadside bomb laid by someone who chooses to kill without dying, or a group of school kids or supermarket patrons held
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — A few years ago I was sitting at a table at a synagogue event when one of the guests made a racist remark. The rest of us were uncomfortable and embarrassed. We stared at our plates but said nothing. After a few moments of awkward silence we changed
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USAAmsterdam drops plan to be Tel Aviv’s twin city after pro-Palestinian pressure (Israel Hayom/Exclusive JNS.org) A plan to link Amsterdam and Tel Aviv as twin cities was dropped on Thursday after the Dutch capital’s mayor, Eberhard Van der Laan, came under fire from pro-Palestinian activists. Van der Laan has been an outspoken admirer of Tel
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International, Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The Oxford English Dictionary added a new definition for the word “belated:” “The interval between the end of the Civil War, 90 years of Jim Crow Laws, and 50 years of resisting Civil Rights legislation, and the removal of Confederate flag from the flags and license plates of states in
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Unattractive, stupid, lazy, lacking self-control…is that what you not-so-secretly think of the nearly 70% of adults with “overbesity,” that is, those affected by overweight or obesity? If so, read on. You may be a fat shaming bully and not even know it. I was working out in the
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Michael Mantell, Travel and Food
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) –Vandalism and garbage throwing is not a new phenomenon at the most ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Amid the thousands of tombstones, some of which have been defaced or smashed into pieces, there are areas full of trash and litter left by local Palestinian youth
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International, Middle East
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor Masori WASHINGTON, D.C.– Grandson Shor and I visited the nation’s capital so that he, among other activities, could be exposed to the venues that house the three branches of government We took public tours of the Supreme Court, the White House, and the U.S. Capitol. Rating
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Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee and the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, on Thursday, June 25, issued the following statement on the decision of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to initiate charges against Israel at the International Criminal Court. “Today’s misguided action by Palestinian Authority President
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Middle East, USAPalestinians suspected of beating Israeli Jewish farmer to death (JNS.org) David Ben-Kafra, a 70-year-old Jewish farmer from Rehovot, was beaten to death on Wednesday in an orchard near Moshav Pedaya in central Israel. Several Palestinians are suspected of committing the murder. Ben-Kafra, who was found alive but critically wounded, was hospitalized at Assaf Harofeh Medical
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International, Middle East, USA
-Tenth in a series- Exit 3, Taylor Street, San Diego ~ Colorado House, Old Town San Diego State Historic Park By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Inside the false-front Colorado House, one may get the false impression that Joseph S. Mannasse spent most of his life as an agent for the Wells Fargo Company. In fact,
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA