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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UC Berkeley boasts Rube Goldberg’s cartoon collection

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori BERKELEY, California – This coming May will once again be Jewish American Heritage Month.  The theme for this annual celebration will be “American Jewish illustrators” —and perhaps none is better known than Rube Goldberg, who donated a collection of more than 5,000 of his cartoons

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Berkeley professor translates the Bible anew

Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori BERKELEY, California – For some two dozen years, Dr. Robert Alter, now a professor emeritus of comparative literature at UC Berkeley, retranslated various portions of the Hebrew Bible.  He was distressed that most previous translations “were not only deficient, but I would say that they

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A Passover story for young readers

Can’t Start Passover without the Bread by Leba Lieder and Israel Drazin; © 2013; ISBN 9781481-995467; 30 pages, available via Amazon. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Our columnist, Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin, and his schoolteacher daughter Leba Lieder, created this storybook for children between the ages of 4 and 8.  It is a

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Book Review: ‘kaddish.com’ by Nathan Englander

Kaddish.Com by Nathan Englander; Alfred A. Knopf; © 2019; ISBN 9781524-732752; 203 pages; $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As a young man, Larry, bridles at having to sit shiva for his father and absolutely refuses to say kaddish for him for the year after his death. Instead, he arranged for someone in

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Moynihan doc. provides strong political role model

Moynihan, a documentary by Joseph Dorman and Toby Perl Freilich; 105 minutes, coming to iTunes and DVD on April 9. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Raised in impoverished circumstances by a single mother, Daniel Patrick Moynihan always had compassion for those who were not as lucky as he was.  By fortuitous circumstances, a

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Quest for Rynecki’s art fuels ‘Chasing Portraits’

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Making the rounds of Jewish film festivals across the country is the documentary Chasing Portraits by Elizabeth Rynecki, concerning a quest to learn more about the pre-Holocaust art of her Polish Jewish great-grandfather Moshe Rynecki (Pronounced Renetsky).  Previously, Elizabeth Rynecki published a book with the same title that

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Schloss tells her and Anne Frank’s Holocaust stories

By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – Eva Schloss, 89, who has a powerful Holocaust survival story to tell about herself, knows that the world also hungers for details about her posthumous step-sister Anne Frank, the famous young girl diarist, whom she had known in Amsterdam before their respective families had gone into hiding from

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Bus Station Project helps immigrant travelers

    Story and Photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — While the political situation for asylum seekers who come to the United States’ southern border seemingly changes day by day, Mimi Pollack, 65, and Paula Sassi, 71, are among the few constants. Twice a week since last July, the two women have driven

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Latino Film Festival Preview: ‘Division Ave’

Division Ave, produced by Lorena Rodriguez, Michal Birnbaum and Nadav Remez, 2019, Spanish, English, Yiddish, 14.5 minutes; to be screened during the San Diego Latino Film Festival on  Saturday, March 23,  at 3:30 p.m., at AMC Fashion Valley 18 (Screen 9), 7037 Friars Road, San Diego. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This short

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How high school students can start college early

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – There’s a secret that I feel it’s my duty to divulge to other grandparents and parents of high school students.  High school sophomores can get a jump on their college educations—maybe even save their parents a bundle of money —by applying to Grossmont Middle College High School

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Seeing Israel changed mind of Hispanic opponent

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Although Sebastian Parra grew up in Cali, Colombia, with the words of Genesis 12:3 intoned frequently at his Protestant church, anti-Israel propagandists in the United States knew just how to destroy his faith in God’s declaration to Abram, that “I will bless those who bless you, and him

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Book Review: ‘No Forgotten Fronts’

No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat by Lisa K. Shapiro; Naval Institute Press, © 2018, ISBN 9781682-472729; 348 pages plus appendices, notes, bibliography and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – During World War II, many people turned to The Washington Post for their news.  On the other hand, G.I.’s who were former

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