Donald H. Harrison

Prestigious U.S. universities not worth their extra price

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The United States has the least centralized government, with the strongest norms in behalf of individual freedom among well-to-do democracies. Among its detailed traits are –Variations in public policy between states and localities –Commendable indications of research and innovation in  science, medicine, and technology –High flow of immigrants–not all of them legal–seeking individual […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Science, Medicine, & Education

A son’s personal account of the White House fete for his father, Israel’s President Shimon Peres

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — I received a phone call from a happy Yoni Peres on Wednesday night, June 13, a few hours after his father, Israel’s President Shimon Peres, was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House. Yoni, a veterinarian who occasionally

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Multiple meanings of pre-school and grade school graduations

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Earlier this week, my 11-year-old grandson Shor participated in a ceremony marking his promotion from elementary school to middle school.  Next week, his 5-year-old brother Sky will participate in another ceremony commemorating his advancement from pre-school to kindergarten. Like most parents, grandparents and occasional great-grandparents, we were

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Donald H. Harrison

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Jan. 11, 1957, Part 1

  Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff New Officers Elected To Lead United Jewish Fund Southwestern Jewish Press, January 11, 1957, Pages 1, 6 New officers of the United Jewish Fund for 1957 were elected last Wednesday at the first Directors meeting for 1957. Directors selected Milton Y. Roberts as President to succeed Morrie

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

‘Streetsweeper’ intertwines Holocaust and U.S. Civil Rights Movement

The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman. Riverhead Books, New York. 626pp, 2012, ISBN 978-0571236848 By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Elliot Perlman wrote an engrossing novel about today and the “not so recent” past. He has beautifully integrated knowledge of the Holocaust with the American Civil Rights Movement of the fifties and sixties through characters

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Travel and Food

Michalangeli was one of the most colorful classical pianists

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — One of the most spectacular pianists of the Twentieth Century died in 1995. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. To most people he is, and was, not a household word, although his reputation in Europe far exceeded his recognition in the United  States. Nevertheless, he was one of the legendary greats. Michelangeli

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Travel and Food