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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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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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, USA

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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Jews in the News: February 24, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – The Associated Press was credited with three stories involving Jews in Sunday’s San Diego Union Tribune.  In one, Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California had an impromptu debate with students who demanded that she support the Green New Deal, which she responded would never receive enough votes

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Jews in the News ~ February 23, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL  – U.S. Rep. Mike Levin accompanied by fellow Democratic Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Juan Vargas and Scott Peters visited the San Diego-Tijuana border, with Levin telling the San Diego Union-Tribune,  “I see no crisis other than the crisis the president is manufacturing.”  Meanwhile The New York Times reported that U.S.

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Jews in the News ~ February 22, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Her patience sorely tested, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson warned President Trump’s former campaign aide Roger Stone that he will get no more chances if he violates a court order to remain mum about his upcoming trial in which he is accused of lying to Congress regarding

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Children’s Book Review: ‘Made by Raffi”

Made by Raffi, story by Craig Pomranz, illustrations by Margaret Chamberlain, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, IsBN 9781847-805966. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Made by Raffi is a story by singer Craig Pomranz, with illustrations by Margaret Chamberlain, that should help children who feel different from others of their gender understand that they have

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Film planned about San Diego’s South African Jews

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jews from South Africa have played an important role in the development and maintenance of the overall San Diego Jewish community, says Pamela Nathan, president of the South African Jewish American Community (SAJAC). Yet, she said, their story, which began in such Eastern European countries as Lithuania and

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Jews in the News: February 21, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL –Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion for a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning excessive seizure of property by law enforcement agencies following an arrest.  According to a New York Times story, she said excessive seizures violate the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing equal protection of

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Jews in the News ~ February 20, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – President Trump has nominated a replacement for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.  He is Jeffrey Rosen, who currently serves as Deputy Transportation Secretary under Secretary Elaine Chao, the wife of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. .. Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn are persons of interest

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Jews in the News ~ February 19, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL– President Donald Trump, echoing comments by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein engaged in “illegal and treasonous activity” when, according to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, he questioned whether there would be enough Cabinet officers willing to remove President Trump

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Jews in the News ~ February 18, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – The interview of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe by Scott Pelley of CBS’s 60 Minutes show has set off a controversy following McCabe’s comments that in the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein volunteered to wear a wire to

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Jews in the News: February 16, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL — House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York, joined by five of his subcommittee chairs, including Reps Steve Cohen and David Cicilline, respectively of Tennessee and Rhode Island, informed President Trump on Friday of the commencement of an immediate investigation into his declaration of a national emergency and

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Community mourns Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A parade of rabbinical colleagues and family members mourning Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal, praised him, which they acknowledged he would have hated, and told jokes about him, which they said he would have loved.  The rabbi’s funeral service was attended by hundreds of congregants and friends Friday afternoon in

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