[caption id="attachment_119310" align="alignright" width="100"]
Donald H. Harrison[/caption]
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.
[showhide type=”pressrelease” more_text=”Show More” less_text=”Show Less”]
[/showhide]
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
‘Klara’s Journey’ traverses Revolutionary Russia Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
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
A trippy ‘Alice’ now playing at Grossmont College Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
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
Tunisian-born Jackie Gmach shares her American torment Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
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
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — My students are half my age, so it’s not every day that I’m called “Sonny.” But what do you expect from a show called Old Jews Telling Jokes? There was the usual bickering, kvetching and “How the hell should I know where our seats are? You
Sometimes it’s kosher for a Jew to be a ham Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
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
Emotional fundraiser supports terror victims in Israel Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County
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
Israel advocate says pro- Palestinians excel on campuses Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
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
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Like child, like parent. Although that may seem to be the reverse of the adage, it appears to be the case in my family. Bar/bat mitzvah ceremonies have tremendous impacts on preceding generations. The latest example was when my grandson Shor became a bar mitzvah on Saturday, April 26, at Temple
From generation to generation — in reverse Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego’s communal Yom HaShoah observance on Sunday, April 27, focused on the Jews who met the Nazi scourge with “Defiance, Rebellion, Resistance,” including, but not limited to, the Jewish partisans who actively waged guerrilla warfare against the Germans. The featured speaker at the commemoration in the Garfield
Resisters, defiers praised at Yom HaShoah service Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – With a steady drumbeat on the buzzer and an apparent photographic memory for every little fact in Siddhartha Mukherjee’s book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, James Dohleman led his UCSD team to a runaway victory in a three-way contest against Pt. Loma Nazarene
UCSD team wins ‘Jeopardy’ competition at Grossmont Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Anyone who has flown to Israel has experienced the tough, pointed questioning that Israeli security officers will ask tourists about why they are going to Israel, who they are going to see, what their business is, and so forth. The questioning is intense, blunt, and intended to screen out anyone
Israel and U.S. tussle over tourist visas Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Two members of the Jewish community are seeking election as California Superior Court judges in the June 3 election. Carla Keehn, a federal prosecutor, is opposing Judge Lisa Schall for Office No. 20, while Brad A. Weinreb, a California deputy attorney general, is seeking to prevail in a three-candidate race
2 Jewish community members seek election as judges Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
Ben Kamin, Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers, Michigan State University Press, © 2014, ISBN 978-1-61186-131-0, 256 pages including bibliography, notes and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Martin Luther King Jr. had as a trusted aide a millionaire friend, who was an attorney and a successful real estate
Book tells of Martin Luther King’s best white friend Read More »
Donald H. Harrison