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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Jews in the News ~ February 15, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL — In order to build a border wall, President Trump decided on Friday to declare a national emergency, prompting a constitutional crisis over whether he legally can reprogram money  previously allocated by Congress for other purposes.  U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told The New

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Jews in the News: February 14, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the sidelines of the international conference on Iran currently being held in Warsaw.  Netanyahu thanked  Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence for pulling together the conference in which “an Israeli prime minister and the

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Weinberger v. Taft in Arizona statehood battle

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One hundred seven years ago today, on February 14, 1912, President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation making Arizona the 48th State of the Union.  The Republican president may have thought that his signature culminated a long fight with Progressive Democrats in Arizona over the question of the

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Jews in the News: February 13, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Democratic U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has asked Google and Apple to remove from sale an app developed in Saudi Arabia to permit Saudi husbands to track, monitor and thereby control the movement of women in their families.   According to The Washington Post, Wyden denounced Saudi Arabia’s

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Jews in the News ~ February 12, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL –Nita Lowey and Richard Shelby, chairs respectively of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee, along with members of their committees, hammered out a tentative deal to avoid a second government shut down in the face of President Trump’s demand for a wall at the Mexican border.  According to a

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Jews in the News: February 11, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison THE OMAR AFFAIR– Responding to a comment by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota that Members of Congress support Israel because “It’s all about the Benjamins,” that is $100 bills, and that AIPAC pays the members to vote for Israel, Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called for

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Jews in the News: February 10, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ruth Bader Ginsburg has recently beaten back cancer, but at age 85, she’s the oldest Justice on the Supreme Court.  Bloomberg columnist Ramesh Ponnuru reports that just in case she leaves the court, President Trump has a short list of seven candidates from which to pick her replacement. 

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‘Wooden Wars’: A play about Poles and Jews

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, founder of the Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA), says many Americans mistakenly believe that Polish people are anti-Semitic. In fact, she says, Polish people have an obsession with Judaism that leads some to be anti-Semitic and others to be just the

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Jews in the News: February 9, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – As chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York has much to say about what new projects the government will be granted permission to finance.  As for President Trump’s demand for over $5 billion for a border wall, or a compromise proposal for

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Jews in the News: February 8, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ronald S. Lauder and Robert Singer, president and executive vice president respectively of the World Jewish Congress, told a European Parliament committee on Thursday “to pick after Jews or go after Jews is not just wrong — it is dangerous for all Europeans. … Anti-Semitism eventually consumes everyone

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Jews in the News: February 7, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, in a New York Times report, says his committee will be “making sure the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.”  President Trump responded that Schiff

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Jews in the News: February 6, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This following column, with a format that is easier to read in a hurry, replaces the Editor’s E-Mail Box.  It allows for recognition of members of our community in the diverse roles they play.  If you, or a member of the Jewish community whom you know  recently did

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Sightseeing review: Birch Aquarium

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – If you want to know if a fish you see at the Birch Aquarium is kosher, look carefully.  Does it have fins?  Does it have scales?  If the answer to both these questions is “yes,” then probably it is a kosher fish. That doesn’t mean, however, that

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SDIJFF Film Preview: ‘Heading Home’

Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger; Ironbound Films; 2018, 87 minutes, to be shown at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival at 1 p.m., Sunday, February 10, at Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Boulevard, San Marcos, and at 6 p.m.

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