By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA –This was written on April 11, 2023, at 6,000 feet in the Jackson Hole Airport, 35,000 feet in flight, and 5000 feet in Denver’s new United “wing,” enroute from Jackson Hole to Richmond, California. We spend the beginning of Passover in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and return to Richmond for […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food
“We are welcoming Fanny Krasner Lebovits up to the stage again. When a 100-year-old Survivor says that she would like to sing, she sings!.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, California, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
Max, the founder of the chain, is ruthless in his business practices and is such an egotist that he will stop at nothing to win plaudits and attention for himself, even if it is at the expense of his wife and two sons. [Donald H. Harrison]
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In this novel written for students in 4th through 8th grades, 12-year-old Shai has just moved with her mother, father, and little sister from Israel to San Diego County and she’s not at all happy about having left her relatives and friends. [Donald H. Harrison]
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By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Rabbi Dr. Nachum L. Rabinovitch (1928-2020) authored “Pathways to Their Hearts,” an easy-to-read book by a renowned scholar about how we should think and live. His views are correct. They are based on the rational teachings of the “Great Eagle,” Judaism’s foremost philosopher Maimonides (1138-1204). Rabbi
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Topics from swings to enlightenment were subjects for the student poets and writers from the San Diego Jewish Academy Middle School and High School, San Diego’s Torah High School and Portland, Oregon’s Jewish Academy Middle School who read their poems to more than 50 Zoom listeners, Tuesday evening,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Koren Press’ “The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel – Leviticus” follows its predecessors on the Biblical books Exodus and Samuel as a third outstanding biblical commentary. It contains a wealth of scholarly information written in an easy-to-read and interesting — even fascinating — fashion
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
Too bad much of this book is fiction, although it is said to be based on a true story. If entirely true, it would identify more people who helped to save the Jews of Bulgaria from extinction, so they could be honored as Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. [Donald H. Hrrison]
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Two honorees of the Women’s Museum of California died on March 15. One was author and columnist Natasha Josefowitz who was 96. Lucid until the end, she had been writing columns for La Jolla Village News and San Diego Jewish World through the end of February. An archive of her articles that appeared on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, California, Natasha Josefowitz, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Imagine a benevolent race of aliens, possessing technologies many thousand-fold more advanced than those on Earth, select you, for no apparent reason, to communicate humankind’s most pressing problems so they could fix them. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Before being herded onto separate trains, the couple made a vow that they would meet each other back in the main square in Kaunas whenever they should be liberated. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History
This book tells an amazing, true story about the Judean date palm that was thought to be extinct but was brought back to life thanks to two women scientists. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Once again, the Student Showcase of Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices will take place online. This allows for student poets, not only from San Diego but from the Middle School of the Portland Jewish Academy, to also participate. This year’s Student Showcase will take place Tuesday evening, March 14,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
Although this book claims to be an objective history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it clearly is a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel narrative. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Israel