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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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By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – A Pulitzer Prize winning historian told attendees of the Jewish Book Fair at Temple Solel here that Israel’s Mossad was wrong in 1979 to assassinate P.L.O. intelligence chief Ali Hassan Salameh notwithstanding the fact that he was suspected of helping to mastermind the murder of Israeli athletes […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
Gracie’s Night: A Hanukkah Story by Lynn Taylor Gordon, Illustrated by Laura Brown, © 2013 Cookie & Nudge Books, , ISBN 978-0-9857353-2-6, 30 pages, $8.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—In this beautifully illustrated story, Gracie lives in New York City with her father, who is a hard-working bus driver, and their dog, cat and
Children’s Literature review: ‘Gracie’s Night’ Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion
I am Sophie Tucker: A Fictional Memoir by Susan and Lloyd Ecker, © 2014 Prospecta Press, ISBN 978-1-63226-006-9, 400 pages, $27.50 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the back story is told, Susan and Lloyd Ecker went to a Bette Midler concert and heard “The Divine Miss M” pay tribute to her inspiration,
Sophie Tucker ‘memoir’ provides many laughs Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Reports from around the country indicate that 10 Jewish senators and 20 Jewish members of the House of Representatives will serve in the next Congress. That is approximately a ten percent decrease from 11 senators and 22 members of the House of Representatives who are currently serving in Congress.
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Many readers of San Diego Jewish World live outside the United States so for them, principally, I thought I would provide some insight into how an American election works. Traditionally, today, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, is election day, but for weeks preceding the election we
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
Photos and story by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The sanctuary and social hall of Temple Emanu-El were transformed into an exhibit hall for 55 local artisans, with many of them exhibiting Judaica in various media on Sunday, Nov. 2. I went around to the booths and asked artists offering Judaica for sale why Jewish objects and designs
Artisans Festival brings out love for Judaica Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Caren Ford and Donald H. Harrison WESTLAKE VILLAGE, California—Radio commentator and print media columnist Dennis Prager says Israel is isolated in world opinion because it is the “Jewish state.” Prager, in an evening address Thursday, Oct. 30, sponsored by the Conejo Jewish Academy, offered four reasons why Jews and the Jewish state are
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East
Silent Bird by Reina Lisa Menasche, © 2014, ISBN978-14944-08831, 251 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Back when I was an undergraduate at UCLA—has it already been more than 50 years?—college men talked hopefully about the mythic “Yale date,” which supposedly had been agreed upon by male and female students at that august institution across
There’s sex, and there’s intimacy Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
Dare the Devil by Roger L. Conlee, © 2014, Pale Horse Books, ISBN 978-1-939917-11-9, 264 pages, $13.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This mystery novel is set in the late 1940s in Los Angeles, and author Conlee, a public relations man and former journalist, has researched the venue and era to provide verisimilitude
Book review: ‘Dare the Devil’ Read More »
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Selwyn Isakow, a private investor who helped organize last weekend’s Shabbat San Diego events, said attendance statistics were impressive but the true test of the events that brought so many Jews together is whether it will spur many people to seek deeper levels of involvement with the Jewish community. Isakow told
7,500 in county had Shabbat dinner Friday, Oct. 24 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Tragedies, however horrific, have a way of teaching trauma doctors at the Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem in Jerusalem new medical facts and procedures, its chief orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Rami Mosheiff, on Sunday, Oct. 26, told a Southern California gathering of the Hadassah support organization at the Hotel del Coronado.
Emergencies spur innovative surgeries at Hadassah Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California –Nancy and I arrived a bit earlier than necessary for the grand Shabbat service and dinner on Friday, Oct. 24, at Congregation Adat Yeshurun, watching the hustle and bustle as caterers prepared meals and set up tables in a large tent for the hundreds of people who would
An Orthodox Shabbat through non-Orthodox eyes Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
Pepper, Silk & Ivory By Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Ellen Rodman, PhD, © 2014, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-647-4; 316 pages including index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –When friends question me about whether I really think “There is a Jewish Story Everywhere,” as the motto of San Diego Jewish World insists, I shall
Rabbi Tokayer chronicles the many Jews of Asia Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Holocaust Survivor Lou Dunst and Christian Zionist preacher Rev. Dumisani Washington of Stockton, Calif., are four decades apart in age, yet hearing one and then the other speak, gave me reassurance that Washington’s message partially fulfills the intent of Dunst’s agonized rhetorical cry of pain: “And the Free World
Black churches: From whence Israel’s help may come Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA