Donald H. Harrison

A Lasting Reward: Memoirs of an Israeli Diplomat by Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-539-2, 309 pages, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Author Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov, who left Germany as a child and thereby was saved from the Holocaust, returned to Germany and Austria as an Israeli diplomat, and additionally served his […]

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California–Of course administrators and faculty members at Grossmont College are smart, but they aren’t always very technically minded.  Some of them, you’ll forgive the expression, are “klutzes” when it comes to the computers and audio-visual equipment that are on the “smart carts” in some 150 classrooms on the

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –“‘Give me liberty or give me death,” said the American Revolutionary War orator Patrick Henry. “And,  while you’re at it,” add community members at the high school named after him, “give me a decent performing arts center too!” Since Patrick Henry High School’s construction in 1968, its students have had to

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — An intimate gathering of Navy officers, Holocaust survivors and an offical from the Los Angeles consulate of the Netherlands commemmorated the Holocaust at Naval Medical Center San Diego on Friday, April 13,with personal remembrances of Dutch and Polish victims. Held in the main auditorium of what also is

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Chesed Home, a  group home for mentally ill Jewish adults, has been leased in Escondido, and fundraising is now underway to equip, staff and purchase what will become a licensed facility, according to Fern Siegel, president of Hope Village San Diego. Siegel, a former president of Jewish Family

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — When she was 13 years old, Cara Weiss had the opportunity to audition for a major movie role: that of Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank.   She didn’t get the part, but she got something better.   She identified so strongly with Anne, that she began writing

Israel’s Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, edited by Amos Gilbo and Ephraim Lapid, Gefen Publishing House,  Jerusalem, 2012, 385 pages including appendices, ISBN 978-965-229-528-6. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This collection of essays by members of Israel’s intelligence establishment has been thoroughly vetted to make sure nothing therein provides

This Day in San Diego History by Linda H. Pequegnat, Sunbelt Publications, 2009, ISBN 978-0-932653-90-1, $19.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There are 478 years between 1513, when Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and  1991, the year of the death of

    By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — On nearly any given weekday, the Main Quad at Grossmont College is a place where a student, faculty member or staff member might find entertainment, taste new foods, hear a speaker, or sample the wares of vendors, who have the choice of paying a fee