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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I-8 Jewish Travel: Jewish physicist developed new pump

-56th in a Series- Exit 23: Lake Jennings Park Road, Lakeside ~ Eddy Pump Corporation, El Cajon By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – A pumping system estimated to save the U.S. Navy millions of dollars over the equipment’s lifetime was invented by a Jewish surgeon with a PhD in fluid dynamics and a master’s in

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

Editorial: Chutzpah at SDSU

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Students at San Diego State University and a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) evidently feel that a strong offense is a good defense.  On Wednesday, May 4, at a campus news conference reported on local television, they called for the resignation of SDSU’s President Elliot Hirshman because

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

SDSU anti- bigotry statement omits anti- Semitism

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After meeting with some of the students who blocked the campus police car in which he was a passenger  for approximately two hours last week, SDSU President Elliot Hirshman, who is Jewish, and others issued a statement on Monday abhorring Islamophobia but not mentioning anti-Semitism. As reported in Tuesday’s

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

Butterflies, stones, candles help mourn Shoah victims

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor Masori LA JOLLA, California – The Six Million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, along with five million other people deemed undesirable by the Nazis, are so hard to conceptualize.  Artists and teachers have struggled to represent the Six Million in concrete terms; for example, Six Million tiny squares;

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori

Survivors reunite, deal with memories in ‘To Life’

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Fifteen years after their liberation from Auschwitz, three female survivors have found each other and decide to celebrate their reunion at the French beach resort of Berck-sur-mer, in To Life, a film by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann. Although the women want to simply enjoy the moments, their repressed memories from

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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

I-8 Jewish Travel: Klauber was a Lakeside legend

-54th in a series– Exit 22, Los Coches Road, Lakeside, California ~ Historic Lakeside By Donald H. Harrison LAKESIDE, California— Los Coches Road translates from Spanish to “The Cars Road” which makes one wonder if, perhaps, somewhere nearby there is “The Trucks Road” or “The Bicycles Road” or yet another road for some other form of

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Israeli wildlife advocate impressed by Sea World

Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A veterinarian who is the immediate past president of Israel’s Lateva Nolad (Born Free) organization, which treats injured birds, mammals and reptiles and sends them back to nature, gave Sea World high marks for its education, rescue, and conservation programs following a behind-the-scenes tour. “Their goals

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

I-8 Jewish Travel: CHP officer preaches road safety

-53rd in a series- Exit 20, Greenwood Drive, El Cajon, California ~ CHP El Cajon station By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Most of the 31-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Greenfield Drive (Exit 20) and Buckman Springs Road (Exit 51) is known to California Highway Patrol officers like Kevin Pearlstein as Beat

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

SWU choice of venue prompts controversy

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Swirling beneath the planned May 4 appearance of Pastor Dumisani Washington, a leading African-American advocate for the State of Israel is controversy over the relationship between the Jewish community and the Christians who seek to convert us.  Washington’s appearance, sponsored by the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs, is scheduled May 4

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USA