By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — No doubt about Jerusalem’s special character. It ranks as one of the most visited cities, as calculated by the number of overseas tourists in proportion to local residents. Religion is important both to visitors and to many of the residents. Not only are there sites that have been central to […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Travel and Food
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Call me a snob, it matters not. Trailer Park humor was never high on the list of ‘tickle my funny bone’ laugh o’ meter comedy scale. Some nights it just doesn’t pay to get dressed, leave the warm fuzzy comfort of my home sweet home, fight the downtown traffic (that
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTeenagers Educated The Village Way by Chaim Peri, The World: The Values Network, 2011, ISBN 978-257-06206-5, 217 pages, $18. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In challenging numerous orthodoxies, this book is likely to make readers think and educators and psychologists re-think. Peri, longtime headmaster of the Yemin Orde school and youth village on
It takes a village? Book tells Israeli village’s methods for helping troubled teens Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
Story and photo by Cynthia Citron STUDIO CITY, California — “In my family we would scream and yell at each other and then we would have dessert.” In Sherry Glaser’s family, there was a lot to scream about — a mother who was manic-depressive and schizophrenic and proud of it, a grandmother who was also mentally deranged
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Cynthia CitronLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 28th Annual Hanukkah Happening, co-sponsored by the Nierman Preschool – Glickman Galinson Education Complex and the JCC Youth Department, will take place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, on Sunday, December 11 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Hanukkah Happening is San Diego’s largest Hanukkah event
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two proposals endorsed by a Knesset committee would be a reason for side-splitting laughter, if their authors were not speaking so proudly of their accomplishments. One proposal, authored by one of the lesser lights in the Likud delegation, would ban foreign governments or international organizations, such as the UN, from donating
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California — I’d have expected my grandson Shor to relate most closely to either the characters of Peter Van Daan (Mitchell Pfitzmeier), Anne Frank (Lucia Vecchio), or Margot Frank (Rachel Throesch) as he watched the play, The Diary of Anne Frank at the Onstage Playhouse because Shor
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Carol Davis, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
http://youtu.be/xBZNqqa_qts By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –In many countries, languages ebb and flow as generations replace generations and new words replace old words. In Taiwan, where 23 million people live on a tobacco-leaf shaped island where several languages mix on a daily basis — from Mandarin Chinese to Hoklo Taiwanese to Hakka and
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Travel and FoodBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California–UC San Diego’s School of Theatre and Dance is mounting a very aggressive rendering of S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk translated by Joachim Neugroschel with direction under the firm hand of Joshua Kahan Brody. One might ask why The Dybbuk? One might even question why a two and one half hour
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — What is your personality style? Find out; it influences the way you feel, think and behave on an unconscious level. It is only when you have identified the unconscious forces that move you that you can consciously decide to try some different behaviors if the ones
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodGallahad’s Quest by Dixon Arnett, Xlibris, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4653-5707-6, 342 pages, Price Unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Gallahad’s Quest is a political thriller without sex, without domestic violence, without dramatic surprises. It’s a thriller without thrills. Yet there is a point. If you happen to be a wonk who loves the political process — or
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One cannot observe the politics of America or the Middle East without thinking, at least occasionally, about God. And one cannot be a decent political scientist without looking beyond one’s own locale, country, and continent, to see how things are done elsewhere. All this makes it hard for
God, in politics, is the All-Present and the All-Elusive Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion-Staff Report- SAN DIEGO — Anne Frances Ratner, one of the matriarchs of San Diego’s Jewish community, was eulogized Friday, Nov. 11, at a crowded service at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Friday–her 100 years lauded as having been filled with leadership, philanthropy and devotion to family. Ratner, who died Wednesday, Nov. 9, helped to start
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San Diego Calendar
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Anyone who has ever confused “Veterans Day” with “Memorial Day” can understand how it might have happened. The plaque to be dedicated on Nov. 11–Veterans Day–came back with an inscription saying it was dedicated Memorial Day. But, no real harm done– Given that the permanent monument for the
JWV dedicates a temporary plaque at Miramar National Cemetery Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History