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A Bissel This, A Bissel That…San Diego Jewish News and Chatter

(Column 24, March 7, 2011)   Compiled by Donald H. Harrison   San Diego Jewish Organizations Nechama Eilfort, rebbetzin at Chabad at La Costa, knows a thing or two about computers. So, she’s offering four classes, beginning at 7:30 p.m. tonight and continuing the next three Monday evenings, on the baiscs of personal computing, Internet […]

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San Diego County, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Muslim debunks some anti-Semitic myths in Islamic writings

The Jew is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths That Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism by Tarek Fatah, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto; ISBN 978-0-7710-4783-1 ©2010, $24.95, p. 208 plus notes, bibliography, and index Reviewed by Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Like most people with an Internet account, I receive quite a few emails each day. Most

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Mehta and Israel Philharmonic in triumphant L.A concert

By Eileen Wingard   LOS ANGELES–Zubin Mehta entered the stage with measured, regal stride, humbly acknowledging the audience’s tumultuous applause before mounting the podium, like a king ascending his throne.  The Bombay-born musical monarch, now 75 years old, took up his baton, his royal scepter, and began leading his forces.      The loyalty and love

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Eileen Wingard

Getting that Shabbat feeling … all over again

 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–So soon after attending Saturday morning services to attend the bat mitzvah of a friend’s daughter, here I was back again at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, causing some congregants’ eyebrows to raise.  The Friday night crowd is different from the Saturday morning congregation, and  more so on those evenings when Erev

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion

Newspapers’ roles evolving, editor tells journalism class

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California –Visiting a journalism class Friday at Grossmont College, David Ogul, assistant metropolitan editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, told of the day he almost quit the staff of another newspaper after he read the letters-to-the-editor. It was back when he occupied a similar position for the Riverside Press-Enterprise,

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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

A Bissel This, A Bissel That…San Diego Jewish News and Chatter

(Column 23,  March 3, 2011)           Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations The Agency for Jewish Education sponsors UCSD Political Science Professor Emeritus Sanford Lakoff  lecturing  March 14 at 7:00 pm at the library at 1776 Dove Lane in Carlsbad.  His lecture is titled, “Turmoil in the Middle East: Democracy

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

A bissel this, A bissel that … San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Col. 22, Feb. 28, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Simchas When Allison Ogul became a bat mitzvah over the weekend at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, the congregation led by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal welcomed many non-Jewish visitors, including relatives of her mother, Sharon Wilson-Ogul.  They also came from the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune, where

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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Short stories portray down-and-outers and the wealthy of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv Stories by Ashley Rindsberg; Midnight Oil Publishing, 2010; ISBN 978-0-615-42243-5; 159 pages, $14.95.   By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO – This is a surprising book.  It begins with six sketches of down-and-outers, people living on the margins of Tel Aviv society, but finishes with a longer story, a near novella, following

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Donald H. Harrison

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

  (Col. 21, Feb. 24, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations The Agency for Jewish Education sponsors a presentation by Ghada Osman, SDSU’s director of Islamic and Arabic Studies, on encounters between Judaism and Islam at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 28, at the Carlsbad Library, 1775 Dove Lane. This weekend, the J*Company begins

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Another Jewish license plate

SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin, our Jewish license plate sleuth, has found this alternate spelling of “chutzpah,” a Yiddish word meaning “colossal nerve.”    Eventually, it will be added to our on-line collection of Jewish-interest license plates, but we are having technical difficulties linking this website to that colle tion. * Rubin may be reached at

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Melanie Rubin

History file: The Jewish shepherd of Tijuana

Editor’s Note: From time to time, on request,  we will reprint articles from the that editor Donald H. Harrison compiled has compiled over nearly a half century of reporting.  Carlos Salas-Diaz, subject of this article, still is leading his congregation in Tijuana. Reprinted from the San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage, October 23, 1998 TIJUANA, Mexico (special) — The

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Donald H. Harrison