Donald H. Harrison

Azriela Jaffe, Unexpected Gifts: A Novel, Menucha Publishers, (c) 2013, ISBN 978-161465-132-1,                     255 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– “Everybody’s got tzuris,” my late father, Martin B. Harrison, liked to point out.  Were he alive to have read this book, he’d have tapped it authoritatively, and said, “What did I tell you?” Some

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–For those who stayed for the chicken and vegetables buffet—no dairy—following Saturday morning Shabbat services, Feb. 8, at Temple Emanu-El, there was an interesting discussion led by Rabbi Devorah Marcus and Joseph Bendah, a Karaite Jew, about his small, Jewish sect’s full acceptance of the Torah and its rejection of

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Congregation Beth Israel was involved in a sacred trade  this Shabbat weekend. It donated a Torah for a new synagogue in the Sha’ar Hanegev region of Israel, and Rabbi Michael Marmur, provost of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, came here to lecture on Rabbi Abraham Joshua

By Donald H. Harrison   LA JOLLA, California — We’ve all heard metaphors about people judged to be so gentle they “wouldn’t hurt a fly,” but in former Second Lady Joan Mondale’s case, it was literally true, according to her traveling companion  during former U.S. Vice President Walter “Fritz” Mondale’s campaign for President. Elaine Galinson,

Benjamin Morse, The Oldest Bedtime Story Ever, Orson and Company, (c) 2012, ISBN 978-0-9858136-0-5, 77 pages with illustrations, $30. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–The title of this book is intriguing; what can that oldest bedtime story possibly be?  Once a parent and child begin this colorfully illustrated and judiciously edited book by author and

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Would the creation of universally free Jewish pre-schools strengthen ties between Diaspora countries and Israel?  That is one of the ideas under discussion among member agencies of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and Israel’s government. Another area under consideration is the creation of strong follow-up programs in

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–The professor who directs the Center for Law and Media at Israel’s Ariel University says the Jewish state must argue its case more vehemently in the courts of law and public opinion, and to do that it must be willing to invest the money it takes to counter

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A salute Saturday evening, Jan. 25,  to Israel’s Navy and a speech by its former commander Amihai Ayalon, who also is a past director of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, was not, as one might expect, dedicated to probing analysis of the external threats faced by the Jewish State,

-Second in a series-– By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The director of the San Diego Center for Ethics in Science and Technology says what sounds like an easy question before someone is diagnosed with cancer, can be just the reverse afterwards. During a recent telephone interview, Michael Kalichman framed the issue this way:

    By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — The official of the Anti-Defamation League whose job in New York is to monitor and combat Islamic extremism in the United States told an audience at Congregation Beth El on Thursday night, Jan. 23, that it is just about impossible to remove all terrorist sites