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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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-Ninth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison LAS VEGAS, Nevada – In a former courthouse where U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tennessee) once held a hearing to expose the extent to which Organized Crime had corrupted America, Las Vegas today presents “The Mob Museum,” an interactive set of exhibits tracing the rise and fall of
Mob Museum chronicles Jewish gangsters Read More »
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-Eighth in a series– By Donald H. Harrison BOULDER CITY, Nevada – Whereas the watchword of this publication is “There’s a Jewish Story Everywhere,” at the Hoover Dam, apparently, the motto is slightly different: “There’s a Statistic Everywhere.” Or so one might believe watching an introductory video and taking a math-laden tour of the
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
–Sixth in a series– By Donald H. Harrison CALICO GHOST TOWN, California – A few short miles north of Barstow on Interstate 15 stands the revived Calico Ghost Town, presented by the County of San Bernardino as an insight into its mining past. Wooden sidewalks take visitors past late 19th century stores and mining
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA
–Fifth in a series– By Donald H. Harrison SAN BERNARDINO, California –As grandson Shor and I continued our tour up the Interstate 15 from Riverside, it seemed only a matter of minutes until we reached San Bernardino, site of the oldest Jewish cemetery in continuous use in Southern California. The Home of Eternity, at 8th
Home of Eternity: So Cal’s oldest Jewish cemetery Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
-Fourth in a series– By Donald H. Harrison RIVERSIDE, California –Around the beginning of the 20th century, Frank Miller started collecting bells for what would become the historic Mission Inn here in this city along the Santa Ana River. Eventually, he accumulated 800 bells of various sizes as well as innumerable Christian crosses. People began
Hotel celebrates Presidents, Einstein and Newman Read More »
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-Third in a series — By Donald H. Harrison TEMECULA, California – Attorney and writer Erle Stanley Gardner invented “Perry Mason,” the fictional defense lawyer of television and pulp fiction fame, who most people my age (68) can’t think of without remembering the actor who played him on television, Raymond Burr. Gardner also was
Temecula’s literary legacy: ‘Perry Mason,’ ‘Ramona’ Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison -Second in a Series– ESCONDIDO, California –This city’s downtown Grape Day Park is easily identifiable by a play area which features a children’s slide coursing through a large sculpture depicting a bunch of grapes. Large “vines” nearby provide more places for children to climb and frolic. Along one side of
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–First in a Series — By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Stadium, as it called in its third incarnation since opening in 1967, is a massive concrete structure described as “modernist” by some architects, “brutalist” by others. Either way it is a celebration of structural forms and building materials. Its massive slabs of
I-15 Jewish sightseeing: Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
Ira T. Berkowitz, A Wolf in the Soul, Leviathan Press, ISBN: 978-1-881927-13-6, 461 pages, $19.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – My father, who would have been 104 years old today, July 4, loved to play this trick with Tank, our pet dog who was half Boxer, half German Shepherd. Dad would get a
Book Review: ‘A Wolf in the Soul’ Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonMemo to San Diego Jewish World readers From Donald H. Harrison, publisher SAN DIEGO–Summer time, it seems, is when much of the Jewish world goes on vacation. We know that many of our news sources plan to be off to other places between now and Rosh Hashanah. A lot of our readers are planning vacations
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – An overflow crowd exceeding 200 persons gathered in the study hall-sanctuary of Southern California Yeshiva (SCY) High on Sunday morning, June 22, to recite tehillim (psalms) for kidnapped Israeli teenagers Gilad Shaar, 16; Naftali Frenkel, 16; and Eyal Yifrach, 19, who have been missing since Thursday, June 12.
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some day Armstrong Gidongo will be an airplane pilot, but it’s debatable whether he will ever experience as exciting a trip as the eight-month solo journey that he took as a boy, not yet 18, from his impoverished village of Navugoya, Uganda, to Israel, where he hoped
Abayudaya tells of journey in behalf of his fellow Jews Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—At a student assembly in the Grundschule (Elementary School) of Neuhaus an der Oste, Germany, the town’s Mayor Georg Martens proudly received a copy of a proclamation signed by San Diego’s Mayor Kevin Faulconer celebrating the “sister” relationship between the school which Martens was visiting and the Cabrillo Elementary School
By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – Laura Simon, 108, died in her sleep late Saturday evening, June 14, at the Aviara Healthcare Center where she was under hospice care, her son Mayo said. Arrangements were pending for burial on Tuesday in Chicago’s Waldheim Cemetery. Mayo, 86, who no longer drives, said a rabbi from
Laura Simon, 108, author and painter, dies Read More »
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