Byliners

Filner recalls Freedom Riding days to Grossmont College students

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – Grossmont College has been revisiting the Civil Rights Movement, bringing to campus former Freedom Riders like Robert and Helen Singleton and Congressman Bob Filner. The Singletons appeared at a March 17 event introducing Breach of Peace,  a photo and follow-up book by Eric Etheridge on what happened […]

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar

Good Vibrations ‘In The Next Room’ at San Diego Rep

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–If the snuggly laced corsets, tightly wound up sexual repressions, and freely bouncing bustles tied on to the rear ends of our nineteenth century Victorian sisters conjure up a contradiction in your mind’s eye, so then the apparatus in the good doctor’s home will do the same. It looks like a

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

Witty book examines ‘firsts’ in the Bible

Beginnings: The First Love, the First Hate, the First Dream… Reflections on the Bible’s Intriguing Firsts by Meir Shalev, Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman, Harmony Books, New York; ISBN 978-0-037-71718-4 ©2011, $25.00, 295 pages By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California– Americans relish someone accomplishing something first! Do you remember who flew the first airplane? How

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Jewish choirs from throughout San Diego to perform April 3

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — “Sing Out!” San Diego Jewish Choir Festival with two distinct programs Sunday, April 3 at 1:00 and at 4:00 at the Lawrence Family JCC will bring together  nine choirs with directors of outstanding backgrounds and accomplishments.      The final combined choirs will be directed by David Amos, the San

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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County

Help is wanted

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Help is wanted. My wife Nancy and I have been publishing San Diego Jewish World for several years now. After the San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage and the San Diego Jewish Times folded, we created this publication to make certain San Diego had a daily Jewish news voice.   San Diego

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Donald H. Harrison

As in Libya today, tribalism an important factor in intra-Arab politics

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For many Americans, the notion of a tribe may mean nothing more than what they (or their grandparents of my generation) used to see for 25c yelling and fighting the good guys on Saturday afternoon at the local cinema. More sophisticated are studies of contemporary Africa, where some social scientists

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Ira Sharkansky

A bissel this, a bissel that—San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 29, March 24, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Events (In Chronological Order) On his 204th birthday, San Diego’s first Jewish settler, Louis Rose, will have a point of land officially dedicated for him at 10 a.m. today (Thursday, March 24) at the foot of Womble Road at the Boat Channel.  City and school

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

How Middle Eastern countries teach children about the ‘other’

 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A chance encounter led me to the offices of IMPACT, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, where I was able to learn about their work and see for myself the fruits of their labour from its acting director, psychologist Shelley Elkayam. Situated in

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Science, Medicine, & Education

Diamond lust, Apartheid’s after-effects shape ‘Groundswell’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Several months ago I wrote about a documentary that was being shown as part of the Jewish Film Festival called The Wrong Side of the Bus. It was about a noted professor of psychiatry who was born, grew up and went to school in South Africa during the days of Apartheid.

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