By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California–The season’s heaviest rainstorm descended Wednesday evening, January 20, as fifteen people braved the inclement weather to gather at the JCC Astor Judaica Library for the first of three programs by local poets: Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices. Yael Gmach, who was scheduled to sing an original song in French, was stranded […]
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By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California –When The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize winning play for Drama hit Broadway in 1989 it had to have rocked many a boat. It was a reality check on the ‘women’s movement’ from 1965 to 1989 as seen through the eyes of protagonist Heidi Holland. I first
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Janet Bartel, chief docent at San Diego Mission, treads as carefully as a performer on a tightrope when discussing the Kumeyaay Indian experience at Mission San Diego, There have been too many controversies not to. In September 1988, Pope John Paul II beatified Father Junipero Serra saying that
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel returned from its Passover vacation, and unburdened itself of several files awaiting release from one official body or another. The scandal of the Holyland apartment development gained more weight with the detainment of another real estate mogul, said to have bribed local planning officials with respect to that project, and officials
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One of the nicest things that one can do for other people is to remember their names, especially after they have died. Just by saying or writing people’s names is to testify to their existence, to the fact that, as individuals, they walked the face of
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Donald H. HarrisonSAN DIEGO –Donald H. Harrison, editor of San Diego Jewish World, inaugurates a series today on historic places in San Diego County. The series is built on current reportage as well as upon research that Harrison has done as the author of Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur (Sunbelt Publications, 2005)
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Donald H. HarrisonMemo to our readers: Some of you may be wondering why some comments are posted below stories, and others aren’t. Our editors usually have the opportunity to review comments before they are posted. As a matter of policy we send to the trash comments that include abusive language; generic attacks on any nationality, racial group, religious group, gender
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By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Normally commentators would be worrying for days about the report in The Washington Post that a coterie of present and former National Security Advisors are pressing President Obama to proclaim their solution for Israel and Palestine. However, that story was below the fold on the front page of Ha’aretz, and is missing from
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – For a moment, my daughter and grandson looked at me as if I were Dan Brown revealing not the secrets of the Da Vinci Code, but the hidden messages in the Harry Potter code. I had told them that author J.K. Rowling had put herself into the Harry
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–Been there, done that. Why was Israel not affected by the global economic crisis to the same extent as some other countries, specifically the US and the UK? It was probably due to a number of factors. In the 1980s, due to a combination of ideological rigidity and economic
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–On Tuesday we read that the Hamas regime in Gaza had reached a consensus with other rejectionist movements to cease firing into Israel. They were not giving up the struggle, but agreed that escalation at this time was not in their mutual interests. Today (Wednesday) we read that six mortars were fired toward
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The news was not good when Barack Obama opened his newspapers upon returning to work from his Easter holiday (assuming that the American president had a holiday, beyond a family photo-op at church). From Afghanistan: There are no good options on the horizon, many analysts say, for reining in Mr. Karzai or
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Stephen Sondheim turned eighty this year and what better way to honor him than by mounting one of his plays in a BIG way! Whether by choice or chance, artistic director Sean Murray and his creative team decided to add Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street to its season.
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestine Authority, appears to be a decent and wise man. Along with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Authority, Saeb Erekat, prominent negotiator, and Sari Nuseiba, one-time minister in the Palestine Authority and more often President of al-Quds University, they are Palestinians who assert national interests, but have
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