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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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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Today (Dec. 23) is comedian Harry Shearer’s 75th birthday. Most people know him as someone who used to perform on Saturday Night Live and who now provides some of the voices for The Simpsons. I remember him as the city editor of the UCLA Daily Bruin in 1962, the year I […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
Editor’s Note: This is the 42nd and final installment in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34,
Comic lightens the mood on cruise’s last day Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Immigrants Tammuz Dubnov and Gad Shaanan from Israel and Michel Cohen of Mexico are among 76 New Americans who are featured in an innovative exhibition that was created by the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune in cooperation with the New Americans Museum at Liberty Station. Each life-size
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
Editor’s Note: This is the 41st in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36,
A casino host’s life aboard the Maasdam Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food
Memories, Miracles & Meaning: Insights of a Holocaust Survivor by Fanny Krasner Lebovits (with Selwyn Isakow and Sid Shapira); Mascot Books (c) 2019; ISBN 9781643-071909; 199 pages plus family tree, photos and glossary; $22.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – At 96, Fanny Krasner Lebovits is still going strong. I saw her as recently
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – – The spotlight of the pro-Israel organization, StandWithUs, shone brightly Tuesday night, Dec. 11, on a Muslim reformer and a Christian evangelist. Both Shireen Qudosi, a national correspondent for the Clarion Project, and Sara Miller, the outgoing San Diego regional director of the StandWithUs organization, personify the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
Story by Donald H. Harrison, Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Undeterred by last month’s massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, or by more recent anti-Semitic vandalism in Poway, more than 100 Jews and Christians joined in a March of Light late Sunday afternoon, Dec. 9, from Ashley Falls Park
March of Light concludes with chanukiah lighting Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Coming to theaters Dec. 14 in Los Angeles and hopefully soon after that in San Diego is a Leon Marr film about life and love in a convalescent home. The Second Time Around stars Linda Thorson as Katherine and Stuart Margolin as Isaac. It also features the works
‘The Second Time Around’: Hope for lonely seniors Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Editor’s Note: This is the 40th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,
Climbing the cruise ship employment ladder Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food
Becoming by Michelle Obama; © 2018; Crown Publishing; ISBN 9781524-763138; 421 pages plus acknowledgments and photo credits; $32.50 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — If one theme predominates throughout former First Lady Michelle Obama’s memoir, it is that, notwithstanding the fact that she and her husband had risen to the very pinnacle of power
Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ also about belonging Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA
Hadassah celebrates its ‘Women of Excellence’ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Dafna Michaelson Jenet, an author and Colorado state legislator, perhaps felt that she was preaching to the choir when she addressed the San Diego area contingent of Hadassah Southern California on the issue of community problem solving. In 2009, she had traveled to
Problem- solving a Jewish woman’s forté Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California — Steven Schoenherr, a professor emeritus of history at the University of San Diego, researched information for a book celebrating the Chula Vista Centennial, published in 2011. As the book could not contain all Schoenherr’s research, unpublished material subsequently was put on line. In 2014, Schoenherr and Susan
Chula Vista has diverse Jewish history Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County
Editor’s Note: This is the 39th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
Married crew members court, live aboard cruise ships Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Museum of Natural History, familiarly known as “The Nat,” began attracting new visitors last July when it installed an Escape Room on its bottom floor, with the idea of inducing gamers to come to the museum. Escape Rooms grew out of video games, only instead
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food