Byliners

Israel Route 443: a challenge for the peace process

 By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israelis’ preoccupation with security is focusing on Route 443. It is one of two four lane, high speed, divided highways that link Jerusalem with the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. It is the favored route for the northern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, and the best way to travel to the expanding complex of Modiin-Reut-Maccabeen-Modiin […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Old Globe’s ‘The Whipping Man’ grips and troubles

  By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–That May is Jewish Heritage Month is evidenced by the two plays, both bearing Jewish content, now running in repertory at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park: William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony is on the main stage and Matthew Lopez’s Whipping Man is in the theatre in the round or

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Carol Davis, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Super yachts bring glamour and money to San Diego’s economy

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL CITY, California—In the mid 1980s, San Diego’s Acting Mayor Bill Cleator organized the San Diego Cruise Industry Consortium – an association of private and public entities that all shared an interest in attracting cruise ships to this city.  Thirty years later, thanks to a sustained marketing follow-up by the Port

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Donald H. Harrison

Whatever the stage, whatever the cause, absolute outcomes in politics are rare

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The glass of the political activist is never full. If it seems full, it is only a momentary surge of partial victory. The tea cups of the American extreme right might appear full after their man’s victory in Kentucky, but they are a long way from achieving their dreams. Barack Obama is

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Turkey bidding for greater influence in Middle East

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Turkey and Brazil announced they have “brokered” a “deal” to bring some percentage of Iranian LEU (Low Enriched Uranium) to Turkey. The “deal” is a fraud-without knowing how much uranium Iran has, you cannot know how much it “lent” to Turkey and how much remains in its weapons program. And

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Kosinski's taleslarger than life in Los Angeles stage production

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–In 1965 Polish-Jewish novelist Jerzy Kosinski wrote The Painted Bird, a novel widely seen as an autobiography of  his own tragic experiences during the Holocaust.  Except, it was later learned, none of the dates corresponded with the reports of his countrymen who had known him as a boy. Besieged by charges

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Cynthia Citron

Old Louis Rose might have kvelled over National City Marine Terminal

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL CITY, California – Observing the National City Marine Terminal from the top deck of M.V. Jean Anne, a 13,000-metric ton ship that transports automobiles and other cargo between San Diego County and the Hawaiian Islands, I could imagine four 19th Century San Diego pioneers standing there with me and nudging each

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

A vision in a California olive grove of Mideast peace

    By Donald H. Harrison   AGUANGA, California—The olive groves in this rural Riverside County community about 20 miles east of Temecula may become one of the growing grounds for Middle Eastern peace if Israeli, Palestinian and American visionaries are successful in promulgating the idea that entrepreneurship and business cooperation between the Middle Eastern neighbors

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

San Diego’s Historic Places: Miramar National Cemetery

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Miramar National Cemetery was dedicated Saturday, January 30,  2010, by two members of Congress and ranking officials of the military and Veterans Administration with promises that San Diego will once again be able to bury the bodies of its veterans—and not only their ashes—before the end of the year.

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Donald H. Harrison

San Diego’s Historic Places: The original Temple Beth Israel

SAN DIEGO—For more than a month, workers have been laboring at county-owned Heritage Park in Old Town to restore the original Temple Beth Israel and six other historic buildings to the glory of their  19th century conditions, while preparing the overall development for a new life as a reception hall and bed-and-breakfast park. Partners Bill

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Donald H. Harrison

Arabs, ultra-Orthodox adopt contrasting styles in Israel's politics

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel suffers from two prominent fault lines in its society. Both are complex, and fragment into further splits that confound any simple remedies. One sets the Arab minority against the Jewish majority. Complicating any application of conventional minority/majority analysis is the proximity of the Palestine and the larger Arab and Muslim communities.

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Ira Sharkansky