Donald H. Harrison

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– I should like to acknowledge a debt to three musicians whom I’ve never met, but whose fine work has made some historical research quite a bit easier.   Their names are Yael Weiss, Mark Kaplan and Clancy Newman.  Respectively, they play the piano, violin, and cello. Last year, Bridge Records […]

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Grandson Sky is an energetic four-year-old.  With only a little coaxing he will clean up whatever room he left looking like it was subjected to a hurricane.  But I’m not certain that he is ready to absorb the lesson at the downtown Children’s Museum that the world

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Second through fourth grade students who participate in Deeds by Kids, a nonprofit organization that encourages them to practice volunteerism and philanthropy, saw the payoff for their first project on Friday, Dec. 16. The reward came in the form of smiles from nearly 200 students of Cabrillo

From the Holocaust to a New Dawn by David Shachar, Gefen Publishing House, 2011, ISBN 978-965-229-546-0; 198 pages, No price listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– David Shachar is not a world leader, nor are his Holocaust experiences particularly extraordinary, although they are, of course, tragic.  Yet Shachar has written a personal memoir that

Hot Chocolate for Seniors compiled  by Jan Fowler, Balboa Press of Hay House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4525-3945-4,  319 pages, $21.99 By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO –This is an anthology of positivity with more than 100 short stories, most not longer than three pages–covering such topics as unexplained but happy mysteries; love the second time

Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do about It by Rene H. Levy, PhD, Gefen Publishing House,  2011, 212 pages including bibliography, ISBN 9789652295309, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO — An important concept in this book is that of arevut, which teaches that the responsibility that one Jew

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — During Tata Twins: The Remix, a play modernizing the ancient Greek playwright Plautus’s The Twin Menaechmus and similar farces based on mistaken identities, we first meet “Lady Tata” (Stephanie Johnson) shouting the F-word as she emerges from her Hollywood mansion. Thereafter, not one of her spoken

Echoes of Eden, Sefer Bereishit, by Rabbi Ari D. Kahn, “Echoes of Eden,” OU Press, 386 pages, ISBN 978-965-229-499-9. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This is an eye-opening commentary on the Book of Genesis (Bereshit) which probably should be recommended for adults only. The interpretations delve into some of the underlying sexual content

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Scientists at the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University of the Negev are making strides in their quest to make the world’s deserts more productive by increasing their yields of energy, food and water, Pedro Berliner, director of the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research told about 50 people Tuesday

Of Guns, Revenge and Hope by D. Lawrence-Young, Gefen Publishing House, 289 pages, ISBN 9789652295330, price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Although he was killed before I was born, when I first started practicing journalism 50 years ago, I found my hero. His name was Ernie Pyle. He was a war correspondent during

Nimpentoad by Henry, Josh and Harrison Herz, with illustrations by Sean Eddingfield and Bill Maus, 20 pages, ISBN 9781466463042, price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — A tribe of Niblings must navigate its way through 15 miles of forest infested with monsters of various sorts who have one thing especially in common. 

Inside Hana’s Suitcase directed by Larry Weinstein, Menemsha Films, 90 minutes, DVD on sale Dec. 6. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–The world might not know the name Hana Brady except for the fact that a replica of the suitcase which the 13-year-old girl carried on the train from the Theresienstadt concentration camp to Auschwitz