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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Holocaust biography looks at child’s new American life

Steven L. Richards, Sitting on Top of the World, © 2014 Create Space Independent Publishing, ISBN 978-1-49492-541-3, 516 large print pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Holocaust memoirs and titles like Sitting on Top of the World seem to contradict each other until one remembers that they are written about people who survived the Shoah. […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

ZOA upbraids Obama, Christie for what they didn’t say

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There are sins of commission, and, especially  in the eyes of the Zionist Organization of America, there also are grave sins of omission.  The ZOA on Monday, May 19, faulted President Barack Obama, a Democrat, for what he didn’t say when he participated in the opening of the

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, USA

San Diego celebrates Israel’s 66th birthday

Photo essay by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–As at any event celebrating Israel, there were precautions such as bags being checked by security personnel and uniformed San Diego Police officers walking  the festival grounds, but for all that, the mood at Israel’s 66th birthday celebration on Sunday, May 18, was considerably upbeat. The wildfires that had plagued San Diegans

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Arrests announced for arson, looting in S.D. County fires

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and City Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman announced on Friday, May 16, that there have been arrests for looting and arson as the storm of wildfires continue to burn, with  one man dead and over 20,000 acres consumed in San Diego County. Dumanis and Zimmerman,

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‘Klara’s Journey’ traverses Revolutionary Russia

Ben G. Frank, Klara’s Journey, Marion Street Press, © 2013, ISBN 978-1-936863-47-1, 222 pages, $17.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –According to computerized calculations, it is 707 miles between Odessa and Moscow, and another 3,989 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok.  But those are air miles, not rail miles, and the figures can’t account for

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A trippy ‘Alice’ now playing at Grossmont College

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California –My 13-year-old grandson, Shor, and I went on a dramatic psychedelic trip on Thursday evening, May 8—not self-induced, but rather one devised by Madge Miller and directed by Jerry Hager,  the theatre arts professor and former Seaport Village mime.  Hager took Miller’s adaptation of  Lewis Carroll’s story

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Tunisian-born Jackie Gmach shares her American torment

Jacqueline Semha Gmach (with Hillary Selese Liber), From Bomboloni to Bagel: A Story of Two Worlds, Gefen Publishing House © 2014, ISBN 978-965-229-641-2, 288 pages including glossary and epilogue. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This is a difficult, shockingly honest book, by the woman who helped to engineer, and who perhaps even personifies, San

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Tazpit News Agency founder Amotz Eyal tells of Israelis’ fight for balanced news coverage in Judea and Samaria

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Why do Palestinians seem to get better press than Israelis in Western media?  Journalistic bias is only part of the answer, Amotz Eyal, the founder of the Tazpit News Agency of Israel, told a gathering Sunday night, May 4,  at Beth Jacob Congregation. In a slide and video presentation, Eyal

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East

Emotional fundraiser supports terror victims in Israel

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Carine Chitayat, the founder and CEO of the Adopt a Family Foundation stood in the main foyer of the Museum of Photographic Arts, where there were gathered numerous San Diego County residents whose hearts have gone out to the families of southern Israel who endure rocket attacks

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County

Israel advocate says pro- Palestinians excel on campuses

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Former IDF Lt. Hen Mazzig, who coordinates Israel advocacy for StandWithUs’s Pacific Northwest Chapter on 15 college campuses in and around Seattle, Washington, says the American Jewish community may be too focused on interacting with present-day elites, while pro-Palestinian advocates are building a constituency among the college

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

Israeli Consul-General Siegel says Israel hopes Abbas will reverse his U-turn and return to the negotiations

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — David Siegel, Israel’s Consul-General in Los Angeles, said Thursday, May 1, that his government is still hopeful that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority “will reevaluate their position and come back to the negotiating table and move away from Hamas.” While the “ball is in

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East