Pinto Thai, 2330 Main Street #H, Ramona, California 92065 By Sandi Masori RAMONA, California — If you’re driving along State Route 67 in Ramona, you might not even notice Pinto Thai in the little strip mall. That would be a shame, because surprisingly, this off-of-the-beaten-path restaurant has really good authentic Thai food. It started as […]
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Sandi Masori, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Among the 40 portraits of “Groundbreaking Girls” on exhibit through April 28 at the Women’s Museum of California are six people who self-identified as Jews or were of Jewish descent. A seventh portrait of particular Jewish interest is of Irena Sendler (1910-2008), who estimated she saved the lives
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — All the talk of the Polar Vortex hitting the Midwest of the USA reminds me of the year my family and I spent in Nebraska, the funnily-shaped State bang in the middle of the United States. People are saying that there hasn’t been a freeze like that for
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food, USABy Eric George Tauber “Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.” (Proverbs 4:1) SAN DIEGO — The Korean community is one of a plethora of immigrant communities of San Diego. I came to Thursday night’s show in order to attend Sam’s Salon where the San Diego Rep’s Artistic Director
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By Steve Kramer MT. ARBEL, Israel — I joined the ESRA (English Speaking Residents Association) hike to Mt. Arbel, one of Israel’s most beautiful treks. We began at Moshav Migdal, near Lake Kinneret, popularly known as the Sea of Galilee. We first walked about one mile to the start of the Arbel ascent. Once on
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Seaside Buffet, 8998 Miramar Rd, San Diego, California 92126 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — We recently had nine members of the family together and decided to go out for dinner. My youngest son picked the restaurant, so we went to his favorite all-you-can-eat place — Seaside Buffet — which contrary to the name
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has announced plans to present the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. is produced in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland and the international
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Goldilocks, 1420 E. Plaza Blvd D-7, National City, California 91950 By Sandi Masori NATIONAL CITY, California — In this suburb of San Diego, you can find many ethnic restaurants, and especially a lot of Filipino restaurants. We went to one such restaurant, by the name of Goldilocks. Upon walking in the first thing you notice is
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By Mo Bailey POWAY, California – Dan’s Place is a restaurant that celebrates the spirit of the late Dan Green and local community, while giving opportunities to people with disabilities who are often underestimated and marginalized. Many things make Dan’s Place a unique and holistic experience that patrons seem to ‘eat up’ (pun half-intended). Each
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food
By Oliver B. Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — In 2004 my law partner and I went to Washington DC for a conference. Our sightseeing included The Watergate, Jewish War Veterans Museum, and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial on the Mall. The Memorial first conceived in 1960, authorized in 1974 with Lawrence Halprin’s winning design went unfunded
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USA
Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison and Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Even before one comes aboard the Adventure Hornblower for a 3 1/2 -hour whale-watching tour, one begins learning about the California Gray Whale, which is the sightseeing vessel’s quarry. Yellow-shirted volunteer “whalers” from the San Diego Museum of Natural History –
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Donna Jean (vegan restaurant), 2949 Fifth Ave, San Diego, California 92103 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — My friend and I went to the Donna Jean vegan restaurant the other day. Let me start by saying that I am a proud meat eater, and while I like vegetables, I don’t think that they make up for
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Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Sponsored by the Sheila and Jeffrey Lipinsky Family Fund, young California playwrights entered their original writing for consideration in an annual contest. This year there were 415 submissions from which to choose, and a cohort of judges and script evaluators read works written by authors under 19 years of
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Adam Schiff: Proposed national emergency to fund wall an abuse of power U.S. Rep. Adam Shiff (D-California) on Friday issued this statement concerning the ongoing partial government shutdown: “President Trump used the Oval Office to push for his wall in a prime time national television speech replete with falsehoods and fear mongering, and walked out
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