Link to: September 2007 headlines

 

                                                  Headlines for October 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
 Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Sandy Koufax, Jackie Robinson are role models for this baseball story"

Joe Naiman in El Cajon, California: "Short Track Racecars in Ramona and its owners weather the Witch Creek Fire"

Isaac Yetiv in La Jolla, California: "The fabled Rebbe Hai Tayeb lo-met of Tunisia bests a Jerusalem Talmudist"


 Tuesday, October 30, 2007

 Garry Fabian in Melbourne, Australia: "Communal lethargy dogs Jewish roof body" ... "Go-ahead for Jewish same-sex unions" ... "Jewish journalist nominated for Walkley Award" ... "Aussie educators link with Israel"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Ad hoc task force lays traps for scammers in wake of fires"
Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem: "Swift Swiftian response to Gaza rockets"

Monday, October 29, 2007
Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Rabbis prepare for theological questions about the fires."

Morton A. Klein in New York: "Palestinian agenda dooms Annapolis conference to failure"

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson in Jerusalem: "Scandals, corruption weaken Israel"

David Strom in San Diego: "The danger of substituting political faith for logic"

 Sunday, October 28, 2007
 

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "And after it all, still there is music"
Natasha Josefowitz in La Jolla, California: 'Old age: A privilege denied to lots of people"

Joe Naiman in Lakeside, California: "Jewish trainer wins Arab-sponsored Breeders' Cup race"
 
Sheila Orysiek in San Diego: "Waiting for FEMA, DEMA, SCHEMA and EMA"


 Saturday, October 27, 2007
Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Prayers amid the rubble and the ash."

Sandy Levin, Ph.D in La Jolla, California: "Women, listen to your hearts"

F. Jay Winheld in San Diego: "A century of Jewish cooking—an anthology of the good and the bad"

Larry Zeiger in San Diego: "Jersey Boys: Flashback to an era when anything seemed possible."
 


 Friday, October 26, 2007
Shoshana Bryen in Washington D.C.: "After withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza, should Israel risk West Bank departure?"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "As evacuation center, Qualcomm Stadium hosted all-around team."

Rabbi Baruch Lederman and Ron Cruger in San Diego: "Slipping the key out of the lock—for what may be the final time"

Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal in San Diego: "God was not in the fires, but in the 'still small voices' of responders"



Thursday, October 25, 2007

 Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "100+ Jewish homes lost in San Diego County fires; donations mounting"

Joe Naiman in Lakeside, California: "Youkilis, 2-5, three runs, two doubles in World Series debut"

Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem: "Myths and the making of policy."

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

 Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.: "Turks, Kurds, and the PKK"

Garry Fabian in Melbourne, Australia: "Neo-Nazi concert too close for comfort... Jewish pilot off to Antarctica .... Bipartisan support for security funding... Carl Bernstein to tour Australia for JNF"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Seacrest Village seniors return after camping out at Beth Israel"

Lynne Thrope in San Diego: "Restaurant community pitches in for victims of wildfires"

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

 Shoshana Bryen in Washington: "Gates sees U.S. consensus on Iraq"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Acts of kindness, large and small, characterize response to fires"

J. Zel Lurie in Delray Beach, Florida: "Watching the media and the media watchers"

Joe Naiman in Lakeside, California: "Youkilis sets two LCS records,
ties mark for most LCS hits"

Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem: "Jewish American success stories"

Monday, October 22, 2007
Shoshana Bryen in Washington DC "Gates underscores threat of Iran and the jihadists in speech to JINSA"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Jewish community rallies to help victims, as wildfires sweep San Diego County"

Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem: "Abbas' response to plot on Olmert's life raises questions about Palestinian intentions"


Sunday, October 21, 2007
Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles: "Divorce, Jewish playwright style"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Partying at the Air & Space Museum for Seacrest Village Retirement Communities"

Joe Naiman in San Diego: "Horseracing debuts as Hall of Champions' featured sport"

Sheila Orysiek in San Diego: "Yiddish still alive, tickling"

 Saturday, October 20, 2007

 Shoshana Bryen in Washington DC: "Glad he spoke, but JINSA doesn't agree with all that Gates had to say"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: Comedian ponders relations between U.S. Jews, Christians"

Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem: "He thinks he shall never see a peace conference as lovely as a tree"

Eileen Wingard in San Diego: "A golden baton winner looks back on TICO's endorphin-filled season"

Larry Zeiger in San Diego: "Book of David grows tiresome with its extended biblical metaphor."


Friday, October 19, 2007


Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles: "Braille Institute honors near blind reader, 101, now an author herself"

Garry Fabian in Melbourne, Australia: "How B'nai B'rith lit its menorah in Australia and New Zealand."

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Evan Almighty mighty good way to spend quality time with grandson, 6"

Rabbi Baruch Lederman in San Diego: "A kiss at a bris"

Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal in San Diego: "'And you shall be a blessing...'"




Thursday, October 18, 2007

Dora Klinova in La Mesa, California:  "America?  Just a joke"

 Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Sherry Berlin in San Diego: "Sammy Spider's webmaster coming to SD Jewish Book Fair"

Peter Garas in Gordon, Australian Capital Territory: "Jewish Memories: Australian BBYO activists designed intensive Jewish camp experience"


Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Whistling right up to the bully"

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Garry Fabian in Melbourne, Australia: "Shul accuses cab companies of charging elderly exorbitant fares" ... "Jewish youths attacked in hate crime" ... "Wife charged with murder of missing Israeli"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Study shows Jewish schools pay female principals less than male counterparts"

Dora Klinova in La Mesa, California: "The first Americans in my life."
Fred Reiss in Winchester, California: "Christian afterword sours analysis of Torah and Book of Joshua"
 



Monday, October 15, 2007
Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Sentimental short stories depict men living up to Judaism's tenets"

Shahar Masori in San Diego: "The Land of Milk and Honey: the film, the song, and the country"

Susie Meltzer in San Diego: "What skill level will you choose for a raft ride through Judaism?"


                                              Photo Stories

Three Agencies, One Building—Agency for Jewish Education joins the United Jewish Federation and the Jewish Community Foundation in common quarters in San Diego.


Sunday, October 14, 2007
Donald H. Harrison in San Diego, California: "Jumping rooftops over the streets of Pop"

Joe Naiman in Lakeside, California: "How MLB Jews performed in 2007"

Sheila Orysiek in San Diego: "Malashock Dance presents Let’s Duet, a studio series, at the Dance Place"  

Michelle Rizzi in Coronado, California: "Ghosts, hiding places, U.S. Presidents: Growing up at the Hotel del Coronado"


Saturday, October 13, 2007

 Ellen B. Graber in Palatine, Illinois: "Why I signed the petition to remove JewWatch from the Google list.

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Temple Solel bar mitzvah student wins big on TV's Jeopardy show"

Joel Moskowitz, MD and Arlene Moskowitz, JD in La Jolla: "A genetic detective story to be told at San Diego Jewish Book Fair"
Friday, October 12, 2007
Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Movie poses question when a Jew should stay or leave a country"
Rabbi Baruch Lederman in San Diego: "Gentle art of Jewish persuasion."

Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal in San Diego: "Excellent occasions to daven mincha"

                                       Photo Stories

Gevatron in San Diego..... Photos from Eyal Dagan

All Together, Grandma .... License Plate Photos from Melanie Rubin
Thursday, October 11, 2007

 Carol Davis in Costa Mesa, California: "Shipwrecked! An Entertainment lives up to description in its name"

Garry Fabian in Melbourne, Australia: "Amcor anti-Semitic slur angers community" ... "Hilaly still teaching in Lakemba" ... "New Zealand welcomes Israel's envoy"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Local foundation funds research, counsels patients on fighting prostate cancer"

 Joe Naiman in Arcadia, California: "Other actresses can have Broadway; Abrams prefers to work at the track"

Larry Zeiger in San Diego: "Hey, Jude chases Lucy in the sky with diamonds across the universe"
 

 


 Wednesday, October 10, 2007

 Judy Lash Balint in Jerusalem: "Creating facts on the ground in a new battle for Jerusalem"

 Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles: "Begin legacy stirs memories as L.A. crowd marks 30th anniversary of Egypt-Israel peace process"

 Sheila Orysiek in San Diego: "Better editing would have benefited the memoir Hilda"


Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Aaron Demsky in Ramat Gan, Israel: "Biblical names, popular in America, fraught with meaning"

Charles Gadda in New York: "Is Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit biased toward the Christian narrative?"

Gail Feinstein Forman in San Diego: "A Farewell to Marcel Marceau"


Monday, October 8, 2007

 Sherry Berlin in San Diego: "Children's book author and illustrator Lori Mitchell will attend Book Fair's Family Day

Cristal Ghitman in San Diego: "Hillel sandwich' helped former Mexican Catholic realize she could become a Jew"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Foxman's book will prove valuable for American and Mideast historians"

David Meir-Levi in San Jose, California: "Hate crime suspected in torching of succah at San Jose State"

Sunday, October 7, 2007

 Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Mision Trails reverie: Moses, Kumeyaay Indians, U.S. history."

Joe Naiman in Lakeside, California: "Youkilis played part in Red Sox ALDS sweep over L.A. Angels"

Sheila Orysiek in San Diego: "California Ballet dances Giselle"

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson in Mevasseret Zion, Israel: "Life is returning to normal in Israel as it is finally 'after the holidays.'



Saturday, October 6, 2007

 Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "'Bubbie and Zadie,' who live in Taiwan, actually speak Yiddish"

 Natasha Josefowitz in La Jolla, California: "Thinning out the wardrobe closet."

Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem: "Are Abbas-Olmert negotiations diplomatic window-dressing?"

Isaac Yetiv in La Jolla, California: "Warming the North African winter with Maimonides"


 Friday, October 5, 2007

 Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Not the best of the Viorst"
Dov Burt Levy in Salem, Massachusetts:  'Israel lobby' responses        

Larry Zeiger in San Diego: "A tzedakah project in Honduras"

Thursday, October 4, 2007

 Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C: "World without Israel still would be unpleasant for the Arabs"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Torah-chology: Mogel blends  psychology and Judaism"

Sheila Orysiek in San Diego: "Why Torah bears reading again and again"

Lynne Thrope in San Diego: Sampling San Diego's best chefs' creations at annual Chef Celebration

 San Diego Jewish World staff: Three photo combination shows march of Torahs followed by one's unrolling at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego


Wednesday, October 3, 2007

 Shoshana Bryen in Washington, DC: "U.S. recruitment of Arabs to anti-Iran coalition must not be at Israel's expense"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "SDJA student activist unrelenting in campaign to alleviate Darfur suffering"

 Jay Jacobson in St. Louis Park, Minnesota:  (Humor forwarded from internet): "Buddhist philosophy with a Jewish twist"

 Bruce Kesler in Encinitas, California: "Columbia and Ahmadinejad: guidelines needed for future"

J. Zel Lurie in Delray Beach, Florida: Real socialized medicine is what takes care of President Bush."
Joel A. Moskowitz, M.D. in San Diego: "Sour and sweet at ‘Davka’ exhibit"

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

 Rabbi Michael Berk in San Diego: "Innovative Reform movement has much to teach other style Jews"

Garry Fabian in Melbourne, Australia: "Queensland Jewish community devising plan to involve the unaffiliated in communal life" ... "Learning Centre on tap for Carmel School in Perth" ... "Suzanne Rutland book celebrates 40th anniversary of Jewish Communal Appeal"

 Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "In bar mitzvah year, San Diego Jewish Book Fair stays up longer, broadens horizons"

 Barry Jagoda in San Diego: "Bar Kamza story in Talmud provides inspiration for UCSD arts project"
 

 

Monday, October 1, 2007
 Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C. : "Does Bush's international conference require concessions only from Israel?"

 Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "Are people really kind?  Pat Feldman is so sure they are, we can bank on it!"

Alan Rusonik in San Diego: "Three recommendations for changing Jewish education."