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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Redefining who can become a Jew

The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World by Robert H. Mnookin; © 2018; Public Affairs, Hachette Book Group; ISBN 9781610-397513; 228 pages plus 80 pages of notes, acknowledgments and index; $28 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Author Robert Mnookin, a Harvard Law professor, argues that Jewish peoplehood should have permeable boundaries. […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

Is it India or is it Gehenna?

Mother India by Tova Reich; ©2018; Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815-611066; 253 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you walk through ankle-deep sewage overflow while batting away flies and choking on ashes of incinerated human remains, you’ll experience the India of author Tova Reich’s description.  You probably would prefer to visit Dante’s

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Don’t panic, stay in the moment, therapist counsels

Editor’s Note: This is the 38th 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

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Marilyn Monroe, other Jews, recalled in Coronado

By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Three years after she converted to Judaism, actress Marilyn Monroe made the Billy Wilder comedy Some Like it Hot in 1959 with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.  Now, almost 60 years later, this city across the bay from San Diego still remembers her vividly.  The Hotel del Coronado, where

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

This life in academia makes for pleasant reading

Holocaust Survivor to Harvard Dean: Memoirs of a Refugee’s Progress by Michael Shinagel © 2016, Xlibris, ISBN 9781524-509606; 150 pages plus Index; Available on Amazon. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —  Having served for nearly four decades as dean of the Harvard Extension School – the longest known deanship in Harvard’s history – author

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education

Vicious politics, betrayal, divide fictional college faculty

All Quiet on the Midwestern Plains by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson © 2018, ISBN9781723-871801, 399 pages plus acknowledgements, available on Amazon. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – My colleague, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, has written a novel based in part upon the time that she and her husband Yigal had come to the American Midwest together while he

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Adventures of an Orthodox Jewish bond trader

Editor’s Note: This is the 37th 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  

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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA

Jews of the U.S. military honored at Veterans Museum

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A famous U.S. Navy admiral, two U.S. Air Force officers, and a U.S. Army major currently are being saluted in a display sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans of San Diego at the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in Balboa Park. Honored are Admiral Hyman J.  Rickover, Army

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Synagogue members hold Veterans Day ceremony

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In honor of the centennial of the Armistice that ended World War I, members and friends of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club on Veteran’s Day Sunday hoisted a fresh American flag up the flagpole, pledged allegiance, sang “God Bless America” (composed by Jewish immigrant Irving

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Variety of form, materials in SDMA outdoor sculptures

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –In some cases, sculptures are grouped to tell a story, but at other times their storytelling groupings are accidental.  You’ll find both sets of circumstances outside the San Diego Museum of Art. For example, two Jewish artists who immigrated to the United States from the Czarist Russian Empire have

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori