Israel Takes Nuanced Approach to UN Emergency Session on Ukraine

By Mike Wagenheim (JNS) “We should take a picture together.” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan strolled across the General Assembly floor on Monday morning, making a direct line for his counterpart from Ukraine. Six months earlier, Sergiy Kyslytsya had visited Israel as part of a delegation invited by Erdan. On this morning, […]

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Children’s Literature: Pesach in 1950’s Iran

A Persian Passover by Etan Basseri (Illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh); Moosic, Pennsylvania: Kalaniot Books, © 2022; ISBN 9781735-087566; 32 pages including glossary; $19.99. SAN DIEGO – The red-cheeked children on the cover of this charming little story are Ezra, who likes to run, and his little sister, Roza, who adores her big brother.  Unfortunately, Ezra

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion

School Board Candidate Shana Hazan Endorsed by Congresswoman Sara Jacobs

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Shana Hazan, former public school teacher, parent of a San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) student, and candidate for the SDUSD Board of Education District B, announced the endorsement of Congresswoman Sara Jacobs. Congresswoman Jacobs, who represents the 53rd Congressional District covering Central and East San Diego, which overlaps with SDUSD

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‘Forged’ Offers Real Insight on Bible’s Authors

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Bart C. Ehrman is a highly respected historian who was once a protestant clergyman who became an agnostic when he saw what biblical scholars consider the numerous errors, inconsistencies, forgeries, and deceits in the New Testament. He offers readers in Forged a view of the conclusion

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‘Desert Rock Garden:’ A Landmark Piece of History With the Full Array of Emotions

By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California — I believe I was in my final years of high school or perhaps even early years of college when I first learned of the Japanese internment camps. What horrified me most of all was one thought, “How could Americans, who had just witnessed the inhumanity of the Nazi Holocaust, treat

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5: Chapter 9

Even with the major portion of the old saltworks being repurposed, one still can see how salt is processed from sea water. A three-step process occurs within shallow ponds with levees around them. In the first pond, seawater evaporates to the point that it becomes brine. That is moved to a second shallow pond for further evaporation, and finally into a third pond where the salt crystallizes. From here the salt is dredged out of the pond and made into salt mounds, which quickly crust over, protecting the salt inside the mounds. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Ukraine Synagogues Prepare for Tense Shabbat Under Heavy Security

By Hanan Greenwood (Israel Hayom via JNS) Ukraine’s Jewish communities are preparing for an unusually tense Shabbat, without knowing if they will be under Russian or Ukrainian rule when the Sabbath is over, or what the war will bring. Synagogues in the country were under heavy security for fear of looting and anti-Semitic attacks. “I

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