This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land ~ Peter, Paul & Mary
In honor of the 127th anniversary of the founding of the Sierra Club today
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Travel and FoodPitzer, Haifa reaffirm academic ties
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Pitzer College President Prof. Melvin L. Oliver reinforced his opposition to boycotting Israeli academia and his unwavering commitment to upholding the values of academic freedom at University of Haifa’s 47th Annual Board of Governors Meeting on Tuesday, May 28. Speaking in Israel for the first time since vetoing the vote
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAn American Jew’s disdain for Europe
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Alan Dershowitz is a distinguished law professor emeritus at Harvard University and a passionate defender of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. Almost five years ago he published an article in the Jerusalem Post which the Gatestone Institute has just reprinted under the title, “It is not surprising
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International, Middle East, USASoille gala honors U.S. soldiers, Shoah survivors
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School honored two Holocaust survivors at a Memorial Day gala on Monday, May 27, with keynote speaker Elizabeth Robbins, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, spelling out the connection. “I think Rabbi [and Headmaster Simcha] Weiser picked the best possible day to honor Fanny
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USATrump deal not likely to bring Mideast peace
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” keeps getting postponed, but it’s been revealed in pieces. It seems to involve lots of money for Palestinians to be contributed by a number of Arab governments. And not much by way of providing the Palestinians with a state, a capital in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastOpEd: Geologist Abbott should share his opinions
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In this column, I will respectfully disagree with esteemed Geology Professor Patrick L. Abbott, not about his subject matter, over which he has a sensational command, but rather about his reticence to offer public policy suggestions based upon his knowledge. If anyone still needed convincing that climate change
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, The World We ShareJewish trivia quiz: Will Smith
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Will Smith is currently starring as the Genie in a live-action remake of Disney’s Aladdin. What is a Jewish connection in Will Smith’s life? A. Smith grew up in West Philadelphia’s Wynnefield neighborhood, an area with a large Jewish population. When Smith first began rapping under the
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireNoshing with Sandi: Knotty Barrel
Knotty Barrel, 13211 Black Mountain Road, San Diego, California 92129 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — I went to meet a friend the other day, and by accident, we stumbled into Knotty Barrel for what turned out to be their first lunch after their soft opening the week before. While the Rancho Penasquitos location
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodOn Memorial Day, don’t forget the U.S. Merchant Marine
By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — The U.S. Merchant Marine were the men and their ships who brought soldiers, food, airplanes, oil and every essential item to our troops all over the world during World War II. Merchant ships and crews were on the front lines and suffered staggering losses from Nazi submarines
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, International, USAJewish pins and a badge help document our past
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Longtime San Diego residents Robert and Helaine Baum were doing some Spring cleaning and found hundreds of pins and patches that they had collected over the years, then put away, and forgot. Their wide-ranging collection included memorabilia from the worlds of politics, sports, broadcasting, the labor movement, local
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireYiddish play (with English subtitles) examines power
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Latin is a dead language. This is defined as “one that has no native speakers.” Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh is on a mission to make sure that Yiddish never goes the way of Latin. And she’s succeeding. Two years ago, the doctoral candidate from the Slavic Languages Department at the
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Eva Trieger, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastProposal to honor American liberators of Buchenwald
By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — For most, Memorial Day is another day off. Another excuse not to go to work and grill hamburgers, or go to the beach and kvetch about politics and the decline of American society. However, Memorial Day is really a day to stop and assess the meaning of
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