Donald H. Harrison

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Donald H. Harrison is the publisher and editor of San Diego Jewish World. 

Harrison began his journalism career in 1962 on the UCLA Daily Bruin.  Following graduation he joined the staff of the Associated Press, and later became politics writer for The San Diego Union.  Afterwards he pursued a career in tourism, helping to establish San Diego’s Cruise Ship Program as well as Old Town Trolley Tours of San Diego.  He also wrote for such Jewish publications as the San Diego Jewish Press Heritage and San Diego Jewish Times before starting San Diego Jewish World in 2007.

Don’s  latest work is the three-volume Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5.  

He is the author of six previous books.  Those with links may be obtained on Amazon.

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SDJW thanks its October 2015 writers

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers whose works appeared on our daily news website during the month of October.  They were: Yael Aires Laurie Baron Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Morris Casuto Ben Cohen Richard L. Cravatts Toby Klein Greenwald Donald H. Harrison Natasha Josefowitz Rabbi Ben Kamin Steve […]

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Barry Shaw, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Melanie Rubin, Michael Ordman, San Diego County, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer

Novelist predicts war, chaos in wake of climate change

The Heatstroke Line by Edward L. Rubin; Sunbury Press © 2015; ISBN 978-1-62006-626-3; 233 pages; $14.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Our correspondent in Taiwan, Dan Bloom, who is a cli-fi enthusiast, has already written about this book, but when a copy came my way, I thought I’d check it out as well.

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, The World We Share

I-8 Jewish Travel: San Diego State University

  – 28th in a Series – Exit 10, College Avenue, San Diego ~ San Diego State University By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Before I even get started on this chapter, I want to acknowledge a debt to Lawrence “Laurie” Baron, a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University, who also is my

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Kellermans’ novel not worth time it takes to read

The Golem of Paris by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman, G.P. Putnam Sons © 2015, ISBN 978-0-399-17173-4; 497 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The Kellermans have teamed up on a multi-generational novel that combines old fashioned gumshoe detective work with the supernatural and the  bad old days of the Soviet empire. The result,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Behind the scenes of the original Star Trek series

By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California – Sonni Cooper, an author and script consultant for the original Star Trek television series, said Saturday, Oct. 24, that although William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and such other members of the cast as Mark Lenard were Jewish, the cast was far from a happy Yiddishe family. Shatner played

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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Scholar’s spiritual journey to Judaism began in Vatican

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – A doctoral student in religious anthropology told the Fletcher Hills Kiwanis Club on Saturday morning, Oct. 24, that her spiritual journey, which included conversion to Judaism, began one morning on a high school trip from San Diego County to St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. Jenn Lindsay,

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food

Children’s story prepares them for December dilemma

Dear Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein by Amanda Peet and Andrea Troyer, illustrated by Christine Davenier, Doubleday, © 2015, 32 pages of text; ISBN 978-0-553-51061-4; $17.99/ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It’s coming b-a-a-a-ck. The December dilemma. That’s when American Jewish kids want to be like the other kids and celebrate Christmas. In this

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, USA

Challah making draws hundreds for Shabbat San Diego

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – No doubt about it, the Jewish community of San Diego made a lot of dough Thursday night, Oct. 22. And community members will bake it into challot (challahs) in time to serve them with Friday night Shabbat dinners throughout the county. It was all part of the Shabbat

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, San Diego County

I-8 Jewish travel: Center keeps minds, bodies alert

-27th in a Series– Exit 10, College Avenue, JFS College Avenue Older Adult Center By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Older adults who seek a low-cost meal plus both intellectual and physical stimulation often drop by the College Avenue Older Adult Center operated by Jewish Family Service in space rented from Temple Emanu-El at 6299 Capri

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I-8 Jewish Travel: Flowing waters of justice

  -26th in a Series– Exit 10, College Avenue, San Diego ~ Temple Emanu-El By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Temple Emanu-El, swathed in Jerusalem stone, houses a Reform congregation that has occupied this property in the Del Cerro neighborhood since 1978.  Initially, there was a former Baptist church where the courtyard and sanctuary stand

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I-8 Jewish Travel: Synagogue home for the arts

-25th in a series- Exit 9, Waring Road, San Diego ~ Tifereth Israel Synagogue By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Tifereth Israel Synagogue’s third home at 6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard is a spiritual  home filled with Judaic art and music. Formed initially as an Orthodox congregation in 1905, the congregation’s first synagogue at 18th

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food