____________________ The Jewish Citizen              by Donald H. Harrison

Our changing Jewish World

SAN DIEGO—I would like to invite all of our readers who are interested in the Jewish world, and who have a hankering to write about it, to do so.  Please submit your news stories, features, or commentaries to us (at sdheritage@cox.net)  for possible use on this website.  We also are interested in your poems and fictional short stories if they are on Jewish topics.

All our writers are volunteers, so don’t send your article in if you are looking for payment.  On the other hand,  there is the substantial reward of being put in touch with our far-reaching readership.  Who knows but there may be someone out there who will be moved after reading your article, to write back, either to agree or to disagree.  You may form a trans-global friendship.  Our intent is to develop on these pages a community of Jewish-interest writers, people who stimulate not only non-writing readers with their thoughts, but each other as well.  We hope this site can engender a free flow of thought, and be a forum for Jews the world over (but in San Diego County in particular) to share their ideas.

To transform San Diego Jewish World into a showcase for writers, and to give myself more time to do some of that writing, I have decided to scrap some other features of this online newspaper.  From here in out, we won’t be processing and printing press releases any more.  Nor will we be running a calendar of events.  You can easily find such features elsewhere on the web.  In fact, we have links on our home page to the Community Calendar of the United Jewish Federation, and to the Makor listing of educational offerings provided by the Agency for Jewish Education.  They’re wonderful resources for learning about upcoming events in the greater San Diego area. There is no need for us to duplicate them.

What you will find on our site, which you will find on no other, is our own unique mixture of writers, all interested in examining different aspects of the Jewish experience.  In addition to the very talented people who’ve you met on these pages already (you can find their names in the left column), we expect to be introducing you to new columnists over the next few weeks who will be writing about diverse topics.   

Possibly, you might become one of our columnists if you send in your materials.  All submissions will be given attentive consideration.

Happy reading!