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San Diego’s Historic Places: Lindo Lake in Lakeside

  By Donald H. Harrison   LAKESIDE, California –Lindo Lake’s name is a combination of English and Spanish meaning “Beautiful Lake” and no doubt exercise enthusiasts, water fowl admirers, picnickers, horseshoe pitchers, antiquarians, and automobile racing fans would agree that the description is apt. The water surface area is divided into two basins—the slightly larger […]

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Donald H. Harrison

Tensions among Ultra Orthodox and secular Jews in Israel color internal and external politics

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Among the problems in the Jewish State are some of the Jews. The Supreme Court is hearing a petition concerned with the violation of a previous court order that an ultra-Orthodox girls school in Emanuel must integrate Ashkenazi and Sephardi pupils. Ashkenazi parents are keeping their girls away from school rather

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

San Diego’s Historic Places: 19th Coast Artillery at Cabrillo National Monument

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—It is commonplace to see elementary school classes walking through Cabrillo National Monument on history field trips. But similar field trips to Cabrillo may also be appropriate for high school trigonometry classes – especially for those students who wonder, “What’s the point of this stuff? When would we ever

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA

Israel divestment campaign moves to UCSD campus

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — UCSD has become a campus battlegrounds in the movement by pro-Palestinians to have Associated Student oganizations  divest their funds from companies doing business with Israel. A resolution that will go before the student Senate on Wednesday, April 28, specifically targets United Technologies, which it says makes Apache helicopters,

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East

Roseville section of San Diego to reinstall historic marker on La Playa Trail

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Members of the La Playa Trail Association will place a monument at 10:15 a.m., Thursday, April 29, at the corner of Rosecrans Street and Avenida de Portugal to mark the location where the town of Roseville was founded in 1869 by Louis Rose. The monument duplicates one that had been erected

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Varied exhibits, speakers and activities marked Israeli Independence celebration in San Diego

SAN DIEGO—Israeli song, Israeli dance, Israeli politics, Israeli geography, Israeli foods,  Israeli merchandise, Israeli trips… they all  were components on Sunday, April 25, of the Israel Independence Festival held on the grounds of San Diego Jewish Academy. Shoshi Bogoch, Israeli shelicha who helped organize the festival, estimated that perhaps 2,000  San Diegans toured the multi-level

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East

Neither Israel nor Palestinians believe peace currently possible

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–For those of us more interested in world affairs than sport, “The Great Game” was the competition between British and Czarist Empires for Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia, with implications for India and access to the sea, that prevailed through much of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. Israel

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA