Dorian de Wind is a columnist for The Moderate Voice, with which San Diego Jewish World trades stories under auspices of the San Diego Online News Association.
By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — In his newest book, “Schlepping and Schmoozing along the Interstate 5,” Donald Harrison begins his journey along I-5 looking for Jewish histories in Tijuana, Mexico, at the U.S.– Mexico border. If he were to go back to the border today, Harrison would come across an […]
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Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5 by Donald H. Harrison, with special architectural photography by Ben Dishman; San Diego, California: independently published (c) 2022; ISBN 9798441-789226; 308 pages; $19.95. By Dorian de Wind AUSTIN, Texas — According to Google Maps, the distance between San Ysidro, Calif., and Exit 18B off the Interstate 5 (the
By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice Boris Romantschenko, 96, was laid to rest March 24 in a simple funeral held in haste during a lull in the bombing of his hometown of Kharkiv and attended only by four loved ones — one of them his granddaughter, Julia Romantschenko. The Los Angeles Times has a
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Dorian de Wind, Holocaust, International, Middle East, Opinion, USAWhile one form or another of “Holy Inquisition” ravaged Europe and the Iberian Peninsula for at least two centuries before and after the discovery of the New World, the year 1492 is often considered significant in the Spanish Inquisition as in that year – and in 1502 for Muslims – Catholic King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an ultimatum, El Decreto de la Alhambra (the Alhambra Decree) ordering Jews to convert to Catholicism, or else be expulsed from Castile. [Dorian de Wind]
Is Spain Backtracking on Its Promise of Citizenship for Sephardic Descendants? Read More »
Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish HistoryThe “Only in America” days may be back again. And, yes, “it’s official. Georgia Democratic Senators-elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are going to Washington.” [Dorian de Wind]
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Dorian de Wind, Jewish History, USAThe Protestantse Kerk Nederland or PKN (Protestant Church in the Netherlands) announced that it will, for the first time, “confess” its guilt for contributing to a climate of anti-Semitism before, during, and after World War II. It will admit to falling short “in speaking and in silence, in acting and in not acting, in omitting, in attitude and in thoughts.” [Dorian de Wind]
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Three Jewish women are in highly competitive races for spots in Congress, Mayor of San Diego, and the County Board of Supervisors. Respectively, they are are Sara Jacobs (53rd Congressional District); City Councilwoman Barbara Bry (Mayor of San Diego), and Terra Lawson-Remer (3rd District County Board of Supervisors. Here’s a look at the recent news being made by them and their opponents, respectively Georgette Gomez, Todd Gloria, and Kristin Gaspar. [Donald H. Harrison, “Our Shtetl San Diego County”]
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Dorian de Wind, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA– It is probably normal, as “normal” as things can be these days, for voters to be curious about how they relate to or identify with political figures; what values they share; what they have in common as human beings in addition to policy, politics or party affiliation. In the “what they have in common” category would fall ethnicity, race, national origin, gender, religion, etc. In other words, what many would call “Identity Politics.” [Dorian de Wind]
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Dorian de Wind, USATrump’s retaliation included Vindman’s firing from the National Security Council, calling him “insubordinate” and reported efforts to deny Vindman “a routine promotion [to full colonel]…after White House officials dug up dirt on him and passed it along to the Pentagon.” [Dorian de Wind]
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman speaks out Read More »
Dorian de Wind, International, USAAs we approach the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, many books, documentaries and articles are appearing about “history’s darkest chapter.” The book Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival From Within the Camp, set for release momentarily, will certainly become one of the more defining accounts of the horrors and inhumanities perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust. [Dorian De Wind]
Auschwitz memoir revived for 75th anniversary Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish HistoryNot all members of today’s de Wind family, although all descendants of the Patriarch Issachar, are Jewish.
After a “mini-diaspora” from “Holland” in the late 1800s and early 1900s to places as close as Belgium and Spain and as far as Asia and the Americas, the Levys-de Winds married into other nationalities, ethnicities and religions.
But most have never forgotten their Jewish roots.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish HistoryWe know that there is only one ending to this, only one liberation from this barbed wire hell: death. — Eddy de Wind By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas –He was one of the approximately 107,000 Dutch Jewish men, women and children who were transported in train cattle wagons to a dozen or
A Survivor who wrote his memoir in Auschwitz Read More »
Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish HistoryBy Dorian de Wind AUSTIN, Texas — A Cagle cartoon at The Moderate Voice used images of Nazi concentration camps to bring attention to the plight of detained illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and their children – many separated from their parents – languishing at barbed-wire-enclosed, cage like detention centers. The final image in the
Holocaust analogies? Helpful or harmful? Read More »
Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USABy Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — During the Holocaust, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS (the Dutch national railway company), on behalf of the Nazi occupiers, operated the trains that transported more than 100,000 Dutch Jews, first to “transit camps” and then to the Dutch border. There, the Dutch Jews were transferred to
Comparing Holocaust and slavery reparations Read More »
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