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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I-8 Jewish Travel: Young Israel of San Diego

-24th in a Series- Exit 9, Waring Road, San Diego ~ Young Israel of San Diego By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—“Rabbi” means “teacher” and Rabbi Chaim Hollander teaches Judaic Studies at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood and at Young Israel of San Diego in the San Carlos neighborhood, […]

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

Child abuse makes important novel hard to read

The Devil in Jerusalem by Naomi Ragen; St. Martin’s Press © 2015; ISBN 978-1-250-04313-9; 306 pages, $25.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This novel is well-written and suspenseful, yet exceedingly difficult to read.  It is about child abuse with descriptions so graphic it will make almost any reader shudder or cringe. Author Naomi

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Amid chaos, ‘The War Reporter’ introspects

The War Reporter by Martin Fletcher; St. Martin’s Press © 2015; ISBN 978-1-250-07002-9; 306 pages, $25.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Set in Sarajevo (Bosnia) during the siege, and in Belgrade (Serbia) ten years afterwards, this novel tells of television journalist Tom Layne briefly encountering Serbian General Ratko Mladic near the former war-torn city and trying

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I-8 Jewish Travel: A world champion’s tennis club

–23rd in a Series– Exit 9, Waring Road, San Diego ~ Lake Murray Tennis Club By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Soft-spoken, easy-going Saul Snyder is easy to underestimate.  An opponent once told him, “you look like my accountant,” but that was before he faced Snyder across the tennis net, and lost.  He learned, as many

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food

I-8 Jewish travel: The doctor who pioneered HMO’s

-21st in a series- By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Two of my grandsons were born at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital that towers over the intersection of Mission Gorge Road and Zion Avenue.  Given that the hospital’s address is 4647 Zion Avenue, I sometimes joke that these descendants were natural born “Zionists.” But no such flights

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA

Rosenthal to retire as Tifereth Israel’s rabbi

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal, spiritual leader of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, has announced he will retire from that position on March 5, 2017, which with accumulated vacation days, will conclude his tenure officially on July 31, 2017.  In all, he will have served San Diego’s oldest Conservative congregation for 29

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Donald H. Harrison, Michael Mantell, San Diego County

Largest sea- to- fresh water plant in U.S. coming on line

  By Donald H. Harrison CARLSBAD, California – Within a matter of months, most probably before the end of the 2015 calendar year, the San Diego County Water Authority will receive 50 million gallons of fresh water each day from the new $1 billion Carlsbad Desalination Plant and pipeline that was financed by Poseidon Water

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, The World We Share, USA

Memoir relates journey from Hasidism to lesbianism

Uncovered by Leah Lax; She Writes Press; © 2015; ISBN 978-1631529955; $16.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This touchingly written, respectful yet controversial, woman’s odyssey from unhappy, repressed childhood to Hasidism and thence, in middle age, to freedom and the personal security found in lesbianism, is bound to be earnestly debated by readers.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History