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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Animation to teach generations about the Shoah

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – What started as a family research project has developed into an intriguing way to tell the stories of Holocaust survivors that may ignite the interest of younger generations. Sarah Kamaras, an independent film maker based in New York, has taken the usual components of survivor testimony and stock

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Cushion stars and tuataras in Picton, N.Z.

Editor’s Note: This is the 15th 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 By Donald H.

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Donald H. Harrison, International, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Rabbi Caine leaving Poway for Ann Arbor, Michigan

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Nadav Caine and family are now packing up their belongings as he gets ready to assume a new pulpit in Ann Arbor, Michigan, beginning July 1. Caine, 51, had been with Congregation Ner Tamid in suburban Poway for 12 years, starting with the Conservative congregation during the

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Touring Seacrest Village with a beloved resident

By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – A visit on Monday at Seacrest Village Retirement Village to see Cantor Sheldon Merel, 94, the beloved emeritus cantor of Congregation Beth Israel, proved to be doubly interesting.  First and foremost, he’s always interesting to talk to.  And second, active and physically fit, Merel showed me around the

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and Food

‘Comedy Shmomedy’ delights, offends at Beth Shalom

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori CHULA VISTA, California – There were at least two good reasons why the Comedy Shmomedy show featuring five stand-up comedians was staged in the social hall of Temple Beth Shalom rather than in its sanctuary. First, it allowed for table seating and the sale of

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Jewish tradition of the arts in Dunedin

Editor’s Note: This is the 14th 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 By Donald

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

Love, not conflict, drives this pro- Israel novel

Good Heart by Alan Newman, Gefen Publishing House, © 2018, ISBN 9789652-299550; 251 pages including acknowledgments, glossary, and author’s biography, $15.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –An interesting aspect of this multi-generational, multi-ethnic, and dual religious novel is that love, rather than conflict, pulls the plot along.  Among the central characters in this ode

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

‘Wings of Eagles’ airlift from Yemen retold by aviator

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – To fellow aviators, perhaps, Elgen M. Long is best known as the man who in 1971 first flew around the world over both the North and South Poles.  Additionally, he is admired for his research into the disappearance of aviators Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

Route to New Zealand was a sound decision

  Editor’s Note: This is the 13th 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 By Donald

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

It’s ‘1945’ and two Jews come to a Hungarian village …

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The AMC in La Jolla and the Angelika Film Center in the Carmel Mountain area will begin screening on Friday, June 1, the suspenseful Hungarian film 1945 in which the arrival on a train immediately after the Holocaust on an elderly Orthodox Jewish man and his son throws

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

A little bit of Indonesia aboard Dutch ship

Editor’s Note: This is the twelfth 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 By Donald H.

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA