By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I sometimes call myself a Jewish-American climate activist of the literary kind based in Taiwan, but I am not a novelist or a literary critic. Instead, as a 70-something expat in Asia working the runway climate change beat as a reporter and a blogger, I focus on trying […]
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The World We Share, Travel and FoodBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — The new tax laws are here and they are very confusing. Rather than list out a bunch of boring rules, I thought I’d try to clarify some of the common misconceptions. Charitable contributions are no longer deductible. FALSE Charitable contributions do not reduce your income taxes if you don’t
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No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat by Lisa K. Shapiro; Naval Institute Press, © 2018, ISBN 9781682-472729; 348 pages plus appendices, notes, bibliography and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – During World War II, many people turned to The Washington Post for their news. On the other hand, G.I.’s who were former
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Alforon, 5965 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, California 92115 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — A block from the intersection of College Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard, you’ll find a charming Lebanese restaurant nestled between a smoke shop and a Japanese restaurant. Alforon is what the Middle East should be if we could set aside politics
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — I came across an item which caught my eye: “Einstein’s ‘God letter’ from 1954 goes on auction block” (USA Breaking News, December 2, 2018) that could yield $1.5 million. In it Einstein writes, “The word God is for me nothing but the expression of and product of human
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Chiba Japanese, 10435 San Diego Mission Rd, San Diego, California 92108 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — Walking distance from the Mission San Diego Alcala is a little Japanese restaurant called Chiba. It’s a tiny little place, where you will probably have to share table space with other diners due to the close quarters, but it’s not
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL — House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York, joined by five of his subcommittee chairs, including Reps Steve Cohen and David Cicilline, respectively of Tennessee and Rhode Island, informed President Trump on Friday of the commencement of an immediate investigation into his declaration of a national emergency and
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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, The World We Share, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Before we begin, let the record show I’m a Philistine – not one of the old crude, warlike race of Biblical infamy, but the modern style: “disdainful of intellectual or artistic values” When it comes to food, for instance, I eat a lot but have no or low
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I alighted from my pony, and gave him the range of his lariat. I perceived that he preferred a breakfast of fresh grass to the contemplation of the sublime scene around me, to which he seemed totally indifferent. — Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Fremont’s Last
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Democratic U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has asked Google and Apple to remove from sale an app developed in Saudi Arabia to permit Saudi husbands to track, monitor and thereby control the movement of women in their families. According to The Washington Post, Wyden denounced Saudi Arabia’s
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Cully’s Restaurant, 13252 Poway Rd, Poway, California 92064 By Sandi Masori POWAY, California — My cousin Jessica is studying to be a cosmetologist, so I gave her a ride to her school in Poway. We got there a bit early, so we figured we’d grab a bite to eat in the restaurant next door. Cully’s is a
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, founder of the Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA), says many Americans mistakenly believe that Polish people are anti-Semitic. In fact, she says, Polish people have an obsession with Judaism that leads some to be anti-Semitic and others to be just the
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – If you want to know if a fish you see at the Birch Aquarium is kosher, look carefully. Does it have fins? Does it have scales? If the answer to both these questions is “yes,” then probably it is a kosher fish. That doesn’t mean, however, that
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Why Are We Still Afraid? by Mark Lavie; © 2018; ISBN 9781791-797324; 375 pages, available via amazon.com or via MarkLavieAuthor.com By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This self-published book by longtime Israeli journalist Mark Lavie starts off with controversy, then subsides into informative and reliable travel journalism, depicting the byways and quirks of Israeli
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