Items in today’s column:
* Samuel Gompers is permanently honored in San Diego
* San Diego Jewish World to unveil its new look tomorrow
* How do our Jewish gardens grow?
Our Shtetl San Diego: September 2, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food
By Eva Trieger -Fifth in a Series- SOLANA BEACH, California — I’ll try to keep it entertaining and brief. Suffice it to say that my suspicions and worst fears were confirmed over the weekend as I met the Israeli guy from L.A. I felt he was going to be chauvinistic and also cocksure of himself,
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Eva Trieger, Lifestyles, Trivia, Humor & SatireFilm director Mel Stuart was born this day (September 2) in 1928.
Remembering Mel Stuart Read More »
Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Items in today’s column
* Responding to Hate Crimes
* Remembering Binnie Brooks, z”l
Our Shtetl San Diego: September 1, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA
Famous Working Dogs By Elona Baron as Told to Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−When my owners take me for a walk, other dogs bark at me. People think it’s an expression of aggression, but actually it’s the way dogs communicate to each other since we don’t have IPawPads. After my Dog Day column appeared, they’ve been
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Lawrence Baron, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD, California — To be perfectly honest, I have absolutely no idea what this play is about. It is called Driving Wilde but the only relation it has to Oscar Wilde is that it is playwright Jacqueline Wright’s tedious version of Wilde’s classic The Picture of Dorian Gray and the actor who plays
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastFourth in a Series – By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Bill was not my usual kind of guy. Despite the fact that my profile said I was looking for an educated, fit man in my approximate age bracket, Bill had selected me from the tomes of the Dates R Us library. His two-minute
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Eva Trieger, Lifestyles, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Although there is no proof that other humans existed, it is reasonable to suppose that Adam, Eve, and their three sons were not the only humans during the early post creation years. One of the biblical writing methods, is not to reveal everything, to leave it
Were Adam and Eve and family alone on Earth? Read More »
Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Today (Sept 1) is the 80th anniversary of my becoming a displaced person. That’s how I described the day in my memoir Six Lives: On September 1, 1939, my world collapsed. I mark the date every year as the anniversary of my anxiety neurosis. It was the day Nazi
My world turned upside down 80 years ago today Read More »
International, Jewish History, Middle EastArchivist and author Allen Weinstein, considered an expert on the Alger Hiss case, was born this date (September 1) in 1937,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –It’s getting more dicey. There have been attacks, attributed to Israel, on Iranian locations in Iraq and Syria, as well as Hezbollah locations in Syria and Lebanon. And in Gaza. As well as action searching for attackers in the West Bank. And there’s an election in about three weeks. Polls suggest
Tensions ratchet up between Israel, neighbors Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Berk Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Lately I have taken umbrage at President Trump’s intrusion into an aspect of Jewish culture that is not well understood outside the Jewish community, and at the same time is a key to Jewish persistence throughout history. Since Jewish survival is a mystery, and
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Jewish Religion, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — President Trump and PM Boris Johnson in particular are nightmares, and Mayor Bill de Blasio, in his quest to advance from the nation’s second toughest to the toughest job, is abandoning his neighboring nine million New Yorkers. The modern threesome are conducting themselves in a matter which could
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Bruce Ticker, International, USA
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — It’s been a dark period for President Trump— his tariff increase on China have backfired…his often-announced plans for building the wall on the U.S. southern border remain stalled… his poll numbers are falling…and he’s even dissed his favorite news outlet for being critical of him (“Fox isn’t working
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International, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA