By Sara Schoonmaker SAN DIEGO — The world cannot afford a nuclear Iran. Accordingly, StandWithUs (SWU) San Diego and dozens of community partners have scheduled a “Stop Iran Now” at a rally on Sunday, July 26 from 2-4 p.m.. It will be held at Balboa Park in a prime location of Park Boulevard and Presidents […]
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Middle East, San Diego County, USA
CHULA VISTA (Press Release)–Representatives of Chabad, the Chaldean Community, and Latinos for Israel will be among those joining forces at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 28 for “A Night to Bless Jerusalem” at the South Bay Baptist Church, 960 Fifth Avenue, Chula Vista. Rabbi Mendel Polichenco, Chabad director for Mexico, will be joined by Mark Arabo
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Middle East, USA
Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Solange SAN DIEGO – With Islamist terrorism striking globally and Palestinians and their supporters attempting to intimidate Jewish college students across America, StandWithUs put together a multi-religious line-up of speakers Sunday evening, Dec. 7, whose message, taken in the aggregate, was that the Jewish community is not alone,
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
By Marlene Rissman SAN DIEGO — There is nothing like music to open the heart and awaken quieted passions. And this is what we experienced Tuesday night, Oct. 28, as the powerful and moving voice the chief cantor of the IDF, Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, and the beautiful voices of Cantor Netanel Baram, singer Jonathan
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Middle East, USA
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, Chief Cantor of the Israel Defense Force, will once again be in San Diego to share his remarkable talent with our community. The concert will be presented by Friends of the Israel Defense Force on Tuesday evening, October 28, at 7 p.m., at the Balboa Theatre.
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego Calendar
By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California –Christians and Jews from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday evening, May 28, celebrated the reunification of Jerusalem with songs about the City of Gold, an interpretive dance, some enthusiastic shofar blowing, and a hora around the meeting room of the Restoration Ministry on the grounds
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USAAs a service to genealogists, our editor Donald H. Harrison is making available an index of articles that he has written since he began his journalism career in 1962. A typical index entry has the name of the author, name of the publication, the people whose names appear within the article, the date, and the
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Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The “musical journey honoring the State of Israel” presented by the local chapter of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) provided our community with a most memorable evening of vocal Jewish music. Had we only been able to experience the golden sounds of IDF Chief Cantor
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Eileen Wingard
Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–There were so many things to do, exhibits to see, and people to schmooze with that unless you walked hand-in-hand with a companion during the entire time of the Israel Independence Festival, never letting go for even a minute, no person’s overall experiences there on Sunday,
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Donald H. Harrison
Story by Donald H. Harrison, Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Undeterred by last month’s massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, or by more recent anti-Semitic vandalism in Poway, more than 100 Jews and Christians joined in a March of Light late Sunday afternoon, Dec. 9, from Ashley Falls Park
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, USA