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Why The Jews Were So Successful in the Wild West… by David Epstein, Isaac Nathan Publishing Co, Woodland Hills, 2009, ISBN-10-0-914615-35-1, 90 pages, $19.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – David Epstein’s short book, which can be gulped in a single sitting, tells the story of some remarkable Jewish characters in the history of […]
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(Column 8, January 11, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison San Diego and Israel Boris Goldenberg, 20, grew up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with his mother and grandmother, knowing very little about his Jewish background. However, at the age of 17, he started studying Hebrew at a local Jewish community center. That led to
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 7, January 10, 2011) By Donald H.Harrison Tributes to Debbie Friedman, z”l San Diego’s Agency for Jewish Education, commenting on the death of Jewish composer Debbie Friedman on Sunday, commented that “Debbie was a great friend of the AJE, having performed many concerts during the years of Jewish Education Week, and at other numerous
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Donald H. Harrison(Column 6, January 8, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison The Education Beat * Send your kid to preschool and he or she is less likely to become a criminal. So said District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and Republican State Sen. Mark Wyland on a tour of the David & Jillian Gilmour Early Education Campus. According
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 5, January 7, 2011) Mount Soledad Controversy By Donald H. Harrison Two local Republican members of Congress- Brian Bilbray and Duncan Hunter—have written a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder urging them to defend the Mount Soledad cross as a “secular” monument and work to overturn a ruling by
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 4, January 6, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison San Diego and Israel Monica Bauer Federman, spokeswoman for the Anti-Defamation League, which always works closely with law enforcement agencies, says there will be a San Diego Police Department presence at the dueling Middle East rallies on Sunday afternoon in Balboa Park to make certain
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As speakers at his funeral told stories on Wednesday, Jan. 5, of Jonas Feurzeig’s seemingly magical abilities, more than a few attendees looked at his simple pine casket waiting to be lowered into a grave in the King David section of Greenwood Cemetery. It would have been shocking,
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County(January 5, 2011, Column 3) By Donald H. Harrison San Diego and Israel Invitations are going out on Facebook from Tibi Zohar and other active members of the Jewish community to the Balboa Park demonstration planned by Israel advocates to counter another one planned by Palestinians and leftists in behalf of the
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(Column No. 2, January 4, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison MAYORAL SPECULATION — Gary Rotto suggests the possibility of an all-Jewish runoff election for mayor of San Diego, with Congressman Bob Filner, a Democrat, facing District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a Republican, in the 2012 officially non-partisan race to succeed incumbent Mayor Jerry Sanders. Of the
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyA Small Act directed by Jennifer Arnold, HBO Documentary film, 88 minutes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Hilde Back, a native of Germany, found refuge in Sweden in 1940 from the Holocaust. Believing ever since that people should take an interest in the affairs of other countries, she decided to contribute $15 per
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Donald H. Harrison(Column No. 1, January 3, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison COUNTER MIDDLE EAST RALLIES–The Middle East conflict is coming to Balboa Park. Palestinian and leftist organizations are planning a rally making Israel out to be the bad guys and the Hamas government in Gaza the good guys this coming Sunday. But the intended media blitz
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, VideosThe Yankles directed by David R. Brooks, DZB Productions, color, 115 minutes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Do you have a child or grandchild who has a favorite bedtime story? Even though he or she knows how the story turns out, the child likes to hear it again and again. Repetition does not diminish the
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The Stairway to Heaven by Therese Zrihen-Dvir, Geffen Publishing House, 2010, ISBN 978-965-229-474-6, 139 pages including afterword. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This historical work of fiction is a story of hope. Notwithstanding the book’s title, it is not about the celestial kind of hope; it is about human kind’s ability to pick
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I never know whether to laugh or cry when I read those perennial complaints that things are getting worse, the country (no matter which) is going to the dogs and ‘fings ain’t wot they used to be.’ The trouble is that change happens, it is inevitable, we are
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East