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San Diego’s historic places: Mission San Diego tells circumspect tale of Kumeyaay life

April 10, 2010

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Janet Bartel, chief docent at San Diego Mission, treads as carefully as a performer on a tightrope when discussing the Kumeyaay Indian experience at Mission San Diego, There have been too many controversies not to. In September 1988, Pope John Paul II beatified Father Junipero Serra saying that […]

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San Diego’s historic places: Museum of Man exhibit tells of Kumeyaay life

April 9, 2010

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One of the nicest things that one can do for other people is to remember their names, especially after they have died. Just by saying or writing people’s names is to testify to their existence, to the fact that, as individuals, they walked the face of

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Introducing a new series on San Diego's historic places

April 9, 2010

SAN DIEGO –Donald H. Harrison, editor of San Diego Jewish World, inaugurates a series today on historic places in San Diego County. The series is built on current reportage as well as upon research that Harrison has done as the author of Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur (Sunbelt Publications, 2005)

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Donald H. Harrison

Guidelines for online comments

April 9, 2010

Memo to our readers: Some of you may be wondering why some comments are posted below stories, and others aren’t. Our editors usually have the opportunity to review comments before they are posted. As a matter of policy we send to the trash comments that include abusive language; generic attacks on any nationality, racial group, religious group, gender

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Is ‘Hermione’ part of J.K. Rowling’s secret code in the Harry Potter series?

April 7, 2010

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – For a moment, my daughter and grandson looked at me as if I were Dan Brown revealing not the secrets of the Da Vinci Code, but the hidden messages in the Harry Potter code. I had told them that author J.K. Rowling had put herself into the Harry

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How Israel avoided the global economic meltdown

April 7, 2010

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–Been there, done that. Why was Israel not affected by the global economic crisis to the same extent as some other countries, specifically the US and the UK? It was probably due to a number of factors. In the 1980s, due to a combination of ideological rigidity and economic

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, USA

Feingold biography a timely resource

March 30, 2010

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO— It has taken awhile to read the books presented to me by family members for Chanukah, but as it turned out, my grandson Shor’s selection of Feingold: A New Democratic Party couldn’t have been more timely. As I finished reading the biography written by Sanford D. Horwitt, I

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Book places Halevi and his poetry in context

March 28, 2010

Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin, Nextbook/Schocken, New York; ISBN 978-0-8052-4206-5, ©2010, $25.00, p. 353. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California– Give me the names of three medieval Jewish poets … Okay, I’ll take just two … Can you name just one? If you’re like most people, all you heard was the sound of silence. Our

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Fred Reiss, EdD

Schmooze and News for all us Jews

March 26, 2010

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Okoronkwo Umeham and his wife, Gail Feurzeig Umeham, have heard rumors that the Mexican government may apologize for his wrongful incarceration in a Tijuana Federal Detention Center earlier this month, but so far that is all that the reports have turned out to be – rumors. To my

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

Family squabbles detract from Holocaust memoir

March 25, 2010

Broken Birds: The Story of My Momila by Jeanette Katzir, www.brokenbirds.com , 2009, ISBN-10: 978-0-615-27483-6, 375 pages, $17.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I once had a friend who seemed to take sustenance from hearing about other people’s troubles. She had a bundle of her own problems, and seemed to light up learning,

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Donald H. Harrison

Congressional hearings into role of border consulates needed

March 24, 2010

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—One thing is clear about the operation of U.S. consulates along the U.S.-Mexico border: There needs to be a full-scale review of how well equipped they are to protect the interests of American citizens and their own employees. This is the clear lesson of two incidents occurring within a few

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Congressional candidate’s ode to Marine Corps reveals his core values

March 23, 2010

Once A Marine by Nick Popaditch (with Mike Steere), Savas Beatie LLC, 2008, ISBN 13 978-1-932713-47-0; 293 pages, $25. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This book has what might be considered an elliptical title: “Once A Marine…. (Always A Marine.)” And even were this book solely a glimpse into the proud Marine Corps and its

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Nigerian-American shackled in Mexico in mistaken drug arrest at border

March 21, 2010

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Okoronkwo Umeham, 73, has led a distinguished life in his native Nigeria; in the United Kingdom where he worked as a social worker; and finally in the United States, his country of citizenship, where he counsels troubled juveniles. Residents from the Eastern Nigerian village of Arochukwu,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, USA

Even at funerals and dentists’ offices, there are positives to savor

March 19, 2010

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Most people dread going to a funeral or to the dentist. Whenever I go to either, I have to give myself a pep talk. I repeat to myself the sage observation of Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal of Tifereth Israel Synagogue that helping to bury a person is one of the kindest

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar

San Diego’s historic places: Mission San Diego tells circumspect tale of Kumeyaay life

San Diego’s historic places: Museum of Man exhibit tells of Kumeyaay life

Introducing a new series on San Diego's historic places

Guidelines for online comments

Is ‘Hermione’ part of J.K. Rowling’s secret code in the Harry Potter series?

How Israel avoided the global economic meltdown

Feingold biography a timely resource

Book places Halevi and his poetry in context

Schmooze and News for all us Jews

Family squabbles detract from Holocaust memoir

Congressional hearings into role of border consulates needed

Congressional candidate’s ode to Marine Corps reveals his core values

Nigerian-American shackled in Mexico in mistaken drug arrest at border

Even at funerals and dentists’ offices, there are positives to savor

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