Donald H. Harrison

Lunacy is other people’s religion’s–and ours?

God’s Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo, HarperCollins Publishers, New York;  ISBN 978-0-06-173284-3, ©2010, $16.99, p. 536 plus appendix. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –By-and-large, encyclopedias are boring to read. As the old saw goes, their plot […]

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Fred Reiss, EdD

Simon double-header at Old Globe evokes laughter and tears

  By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Neil Simon and The Old Globe have had a good working relationship over the years. There was a time when Simon tried out some of his new works (Jake’s Women, Rumors) before taking them to Broadway. Last year Executive Producer Lou Spisto announced that The Old Globe would be

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Jewish refugees in Oswego topic of Mandelbaum lecture

CORONADO, California (Press Release)– The Agency for Jewish Education has announced the lineup of its Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series. Lawrence Baron, SDSU, will kickoff the monthly series. Baron’s lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on Oct. 20 at 10:30 am. His lecture is titled, “Haven from the Holocaust: Oswego,

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

Europeans, U.S. treat Israel with a decided lack of civility

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–The brilliant columnist for The Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick, recently lamented the lack of civil rights pertaining to Jews when it comes to the Middle East.  She was referring to the built-in onus imposed on the building of settlement communities in Judea-Samaria (the West Bank) and the self-righteousness of other

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Middle East

Songs keeps comin’ at ‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –One thing about the musical revue Smokey Joe’s Café there isn’t much not to like about it. For those of you who might never heard the names Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, for sure you’ve heard their music. Think “Hound Dog”, “Stand by Me”, “There Goes My Baby”, “Jailhouse Rock”, “Fools

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 1, 1955, Part 2

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Lasker Lodge News Southwestern Jewish Press, April 1, 1955, Page 3 By Lou Levitz Lasker Lodge’s annual Father and Child’s Night is being planned this year for the first Monday in May.  It will be manned by Sam Bennett and Herb Reder. Local TV talent will entertain. As

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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County

Italians wrestle with what is a joke, what is anti-Semitism

ROME (WJC)–The Vatican’s official newspaper, the ‘Osservatore Romano’, has deplored jokes by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi about Jews, saying they offended “the sentiments of believers and the memory of the six million victims of the Shoah”. Days after Berlusconi told a youth rally an apparent joke about Adolf Hitler, he emerged from his Rome

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Travel and Food

Britain, Spain to boycott OECD conference saying it should be in Tel Aviv

JERUSALEM (WJC)– The governments of Britain and Spain will not send delegates to a tourism conference later this month hosted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) because it will be held in Jerusalem. Israel’s Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beiteinu) was quoted by ‘Haaretz as saying: “OECD officials demanded that we not

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Travel and Food

U.S. State Department condemns mosque and Koran burning on West Bank

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The U.S. State Department issued a condemnation of the burning of a mosque in Hebron by Israeli settlements, in a written response Tuesday to a question from a reporter.   Question: What is our reaction to the burning of a mosque and copies of the Quran in Hebron by Israeli settlers?

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Middle East

University of San Diego hosts workshop on teaching about the Holocaust

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)-The University of San Diego has partnered with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to host a professional development opportunity for secondary school teachers. USD’s School of Leadership and Education Sciences will host the free professional development opportunity this Friday, October 8 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Warren Auditorium, Mother

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