Our Shtetl San Diego: September 1, 2019
Items in today’s column
* Responding to Hate Crimes
* Remembering Binnie Brooks, z”l
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USAHounding the headlines: September 1, 2019
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 & SatireRethinking Dorian Gray
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 & BroadcastEight Bad Dates: Hard Hat Bill
Fourth 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 & SatireWere Adam and Eve and family alone on Earth?
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
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionMy world turned upside down 80 years ago today
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
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastRemembering Allen Weinstein
Archivist 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, USATensions ratchet up between Israel, neighbors
By 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
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastNote to President Trump: We Jews love to argue
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, USATrump, Johnson, de Blasio leave Jews vulnerable
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‘Just Kidding’: Trump meets with religious leaders
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‘Cli-fi’ appears on ‘Jeopardy’ and in crossword puzzle
Editor’s Note: Ever since he coined the term “cli-fi,” SDJW correspondent Dan Bloom has monitored with satisfaction from his home in Chiayi City, Taiwan, the use of the term spreading in popular culture. CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Hollywood is catching up with the ”cli-fi” buzzword these days, as the popular TV show Jeopardy episode last
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & BroadcastRemembering Sandford Meisner
Acting method coach Sandford Meisner was born this day (August 31) in 1905.
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastEight Bad Dates: Terrence a.k.a. M.B.
-Third in a Series- By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — “Well, I’m going to be in your neck of the woods, so why don’t you suggest a place for us to meet for lunch,” I opened. Terrence didn’t hesitate for a moment. He came back with, “Yes. Let’s go to my favorite restaurant: Applebees.”
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Eva Trieger, Lifestyles, Trivia, Humor & Satire