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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‘Jewish Libya:’ background for the next James Michener

Jewish Libya: Memory & Identity in Text & Image, edited by Jacque Roumani, David Meghnagi & Judith Roumani; © 2018, Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815-635628; 280 pages plus bibliography, appendices, and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jewish Libya is an anthology about a place that no longer exists.  Since Israel’s successful 1967

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

Ruach, plenty of spirit, at Camp Mountain Chai

By Donald H. Harrison ANGELUS OAKS, California—Along with a few other San Diegans, I visited Camp Mountain Chai in the San Bernardino Mountains last week.  On arrival, I saw a Baer. It turned out that Dan Baer is the director of the camp, located 134 miles from the parking lot of the Jewish Federation of

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

John McCormick: A Kiwi friend of Israel

Editor’s Note: This is the 18th 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

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Donald H. Harrison, International, John McCormick, Middle East

S.D. Jewish history book helpful exhibition souvenir

Celebrate, Commemorate: The History and Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community, editor Joellyn Zollman, San Diego History Center, ISBN 8780918-740090,  91 pages including acknowledgments and room for personal remembrances. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The recent exhibition at the San Diego History Center about our local Jewish community contained more information than most

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County

Editor’s personal blog: What mom would have thought!

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –I’m sure that many Jews of my so-called “Baby Boomer” generation will recognize the way in which my late mother Alice would have reacted to two stories in Tuesday’s San Diego Union-Tribune.  One story told about how movie mogul Harvey Weinstein may be facing life imprisonment for rape and

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA

Holocaust Survivor’s daughter leads StandWithUs

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Roz Rothstein was galvanized into responding to the anti-Jewish violence of the Second Intifada and especially to the mutilation murders discovered on May 8, 2001 of teenagers Koby Mandell, 13, and Yosef Ishran, 14.  The boys had hiked in the Judean Desert

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Clumsy propaganda diminishes Chinese war movie

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – At the Asian Film Festival in New York, there is a Hong Kong-produced film titled Operation Red Sea.  Always interested in stories about waterways near Israel, I requested and received a screener for review purposes. It’s a well-done, riveting war film—on the order of Dunkirk or Saving Private

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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Those special touches on a cruise ship

Editor’s Note: This is the 17th 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 By

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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food

A posthumous salute for Rabbi Katz of Wellington

Editor’s Note: This is the 16th 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 By Donald

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Celebrating Israel’s 70th in Balboa Park

Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison; other photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — They sang, they danced, they ate, and, really, what better ways are there to celebrate Israel during its 70th birthday year? On Father’s Day, Sunday, June 17, who better to introduce the outdoor entertainment in Balboa Park’s area of

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

Pin and Patch Con offers wearable pop art

Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Lucky for me, I had my 17-year-old grandson Shor with me at San Diego Pin and Patch Con, which was held in Montezuma Hall at San Diego State University on Saturday.  Besides being the photographer for this story, he also was a

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

A frenetic campaign to meet business gurus

The Third Door by Alex Banayan; © 2018 Crown Publishing Group of Penguin Random House LLC; ISBN 9780894-136662; 286 pages plus acknowledgments; $26. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This is the story of a college student’s frenetic search for off-campus enlightenment in which he schemes and obsesses over interviewing the world’s most successful

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, USA