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San Diego book tells of sadistic exploitation of homeless and one man’s redemption

A Bum Deal: An Unlikely Journey from Hopeless to Humanitarian, by Rufus Hannah & Barry Soper, Source Books, ISBN -13: 97801-4022-4471-1; 2010, 238 pages, $24.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – For people in this city, one of the most startling things about this book is that its events occurred, in great measure, in […]

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

Europe’s history of warfare, treachery, and peace offers lessons to Israel

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–The Punic Wars, the Roman Empire; the migrations and conquests of the Germanic tribes; the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, the Barbarians; the split between the Roman and the Byzantine churches; the Islamic conquest of Spain; Charlemagne; the Wars of the Three Brothers, which ended with the treaty of Verdun in 843;  the

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Sharansky: Final mass Ethiopian aliyah in the works; will Marranos be next?

-second in a series– By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – – Even as a program is pending to complete massive immigration to Israel from Ethiopia, Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, is pondering how Israel will react if other communities around the world that were forced to convert from Judaism to

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East

Folksinger Peter Yarrow serenades Natan Sharansky at emotional Jewish Federation meeting

-First  in a series- Photos and Story by Donad H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Folksinger Peter Yarrow, who once sang as part of the trio of Peter, Paul and Mary at rallies to free Soviet Jewry sang a pair of songs to former Soviet Refusenik and current Jewish Agency for Israel chair Natan Sharansky at

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

San Diego Jewish Book Fair presents a mother who gave all, did all, to save her child

Saving Henry: A Mother’s Journey by Laurie Strongin, Hyperion, 2010, 271 pages including epilogue, $22.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Laurie Strongin comes to speak at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Lawrence Family JCC, many in the San Diego Jewish Book Fair audience will attend not only to meet an author, but

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Donald H. Harrison

‘Tin’ has comforting message for elementary school students

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California– Grossmont College Theatre Arts Prof. Jerry Hager wrote and directed Tin, an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s short story “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” that will be taken on tour at local elementary schools from now through Dec. 9.   Like many fairy tales, it has an important lesson. Previewed

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Donald H. Harrison

Middle East columnist ponders two ‘day after’ scenarios

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Middle East analyst, author and columnist Barry Rubin, a former U.S. Senate aide who founded an international affairs research institute in Herzliya, sometimes engages in “what happens the day after” speculation. What happens the day after Iran gets a nuclear bomb? he pondered during his visit to San Diego

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Endorsements: Block for Assembly; Wayne for San Diego City Council

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Jewish World is delighted to recommend two Democratic members of our Jewish community for your consideration on the November 2 ballot: State Assemblyman Marty Block for reelection in the 78th Assembly District , and former State Assemblyman Howard Wayne for the open 6th District of the San Diego City Council. Both

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Lunacy is other people’s religion’s–and ours?

God’s Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo, HarperCollins Publishers, New York;  ISBN 978-0-06-173284-3, ©2010, $16.99, p. 536 plus appendix. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –By-and-large, encyclopedias are boring to read. As the old saw goes, their plot

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Fred Reiss, EdD

'Tanya' provides insight into Chassidic thought

Tanya, the Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom: Sections Annotated and Explained by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Skylight Paths Publishing, Woodstock, NY (Forward by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi); ISBN 978-1-59473-275-1, ©2010, $16.99, p. 165, plus appendices,  Available in Kindle edition By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Jews were the middlemen between the gentry and the underclass in

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Fred Reiss, EdD

San Diego author tells the rest of the story of 'The Odyssey'

Penelope’s Daughter by Laurel Corona, Berkeley Publishing Group, 2010, 358 pages including glossary, afterword and reader’s guide, $15.   By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO—Readers may be charmed by this story and yet find it controversial.  Prize-winning author Laurel Corona, who often writes book reviews for San Diego Jewish World, has written another novel, Penelope’s Daughter,

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Donald H. Harrison