By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Jerry Greenspan, a youthful looking senior with a keen sense of humor began the May 9 evening of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices. He is a founder of the Coronado Scribes. One of his poems, an ode to his home town, is printed below. The next featured poet, Sylvia Levinson, has […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, San Diego CountyThe 28th of Iyar – The Dramatic, Day-by-Day Journal of an American Family in Israel During the Six Day War By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, Feldheim Publishers, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-68025-294-1, p. 171, plus glossary, $14.95. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – If you’re old enough, you know where you were on December 7,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle EastDouse the Fire (tune: Light My Fire) By Laurie Baron You know that this probe had to stop. You know you should have been more loyal. I’ll claim I saved the FBI. Comey, you’ve become my foil. Comey, baby, you are fired. Comey, baby, you are fired. Long before your term’s expired. The time to
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –When the Chinese-language edition of the popular Israeli cuisine cookbook “Jerusalem” was recently published in Taiwan, Israel’s trade envoy to the island nation Asher Yarden held a press conference in Taipei for the launch and charmed Taiwanese reporters by playing cook for the day, accompanied, of course,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In a review in a recent issue of The New York Review of Books of Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich – the book has recently appeared in English – the distinguished Holocaust historian Christopher Browning writes: “There are sufficient areas of similarity in some regards to make the book
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Forbidden Night by Joanne Lewis, Soul Attitude Press, (c) 2016; 282 pages; ISBN 9781939-181755. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — At first, I was a bit bewildered by this novel; it alternated several stories in different time periods and I wondered how they would all come together. But they did! One story dealt with
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By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Immigration has never been easy–moving to a new country, learning a new language, and adapting to new cultural norms can be the most difficult thing a person ever does. Immigrating is not easy today nor has it been easy in the past. About the Dybbuks, a collection of short stories
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, USAWINCHESTER, California (Press Release)–The story of the Jewish calendar, which begins with the Exodus from Egypt, is more than 3,500 years old. Over the millennia, the twelve individual Jewish tribes coalesced into the nation of Israel, adopting, adapting, and ultimately developing their own religious calendar, which has withstood the vagaries of the ages. At one
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Somewhere There Is Still a Sun by Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy; Aladdin Books of Simon & Schuster Publishing; (c) 2015; ISBN 9781442-484870; 356 pages plus afterword and appendices; $8.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This is a Holocaust memoir written for children of perhaps middle school age. It is narrated in present
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryBooks of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought by Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, Editor, Maggid Books, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-59264-470-4, hardcover, p. 350, including list of contributors, $29.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – The editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, in the early 1950s, basing their judgment on just three simple criteria:
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionAs Ivanka Trump’s new book “Women Who Work” hit bookstores Tuesday, some women have viewed it as being full of class bias, which limit the first daughter’s advice to wealthy and powerful women. The book was written ahead of the 2016 presidential election which saw her father, Donald Trump become president. In it, she talked
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAA new book, “Rising Star,” shedding light on Barack Obama’s past, suggests he was more politically ambitious at a younger age than previously believed – and that he had asked another woman to marry him before he ever met his eventual partner, Michelle. You think Michelle looked mad when Obama shamelessly flirted with Denmark’s Helle
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By Jeffrey Lazarow ON THE OPEN ROAD — We thought we were free until we began living on the road…then we became relatively free. Are you comfortable with the turmoil in the world? Of course not. Would you like to change it? Probably. Can you? No. Are you completely satisfied with your life…fulfilled? Can you improve
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Dream Job: Wacky Adventures of an HR Manager by Janet Garber; lulu.com; (c) 2016; ISBN 9781483-447476; 159 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Melanie is a supervisor in a human relations office at an urban hospital in this work of fiction. What goes on there would be hard for anyone besides author Garber
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