Donald H. Harrison

  Tzaki and His Holiday Miracles by Avraham Feder, (illustrated by Lisa Cain, edited by Tzipora Ne’eman), (c) 2012, ISBN 978-1-937887-03-2; 48 pages, $14.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The Middle East is renowned for flying carpets, of course.  But have you ever heard of a flying sukkah?  A mischievous boy named Tzaki,

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When he performs the brit milah ceremony, Dr. Stuart Rubenstein, a pediatrician and mohel, often reflects upon the spiritual importance of Shabbat.  His comments on Tuesday, May 7, about the spirituality of Shabbat brought back memories for Rabbi Matthew Earne of another spiritual Shabbat in a far-off

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Jewish pioneer Louis Rose, who wondered upon his arrival in 1850 why the dusty little village of San Diego wasn’t more water-oriented like his hometown of Neuhaus-an-der-Oste in Germany,  might have smiled with satisfaction on Monday, May 6, if he had witnessed a modern-day result of his successful campaign

  By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California– Come Wednesday, May 22, when supporters of the Foundation Fighting Blindness gather at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in La Jolla for a “Dining in the Dark” dinner– to be served and eaten with the lights out and the blackout curtains drawn — I just hope the attendees

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In the well-appointed living room in the Palm Springs home of former Ambassador, Republican party chairman and one-time actor Lyman Wyeth (Robert Foxworth) and his loyal one-time actress wife Polly (Kandis Chappell), a large Christmas tree stands against the picture window.  From a bottom branch, facing the

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Artist Peter Max is a busy, peripatetic man.  He squeezed my telephone interview with him into a New York City cab, which he directed, on Wednesday, April 24, to “turn left on 83rd Street”  en route to an appointment.  He arrived at his destination within nine minutes, so

  Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–There were so many things to do, exhibits to see, and people to schmooze with that unless you walked hand-in-hand with a companion during the entire time of the Israel Independence Festival, never letting go for even a minute, no person’s overall experiences there on Sunday,

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — I had to ask director Martin Katz whether he had been thinking about death a lot lately. His upcoming play at Grossmont College, An Ordinary Day, is a comedy dealing with a lady who plans to commit suicide, only she is constantly being interrupted. It wasn’t so long

By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California — After seven years of being dark, Lamplighters Community Theatre will again live up to its name by turning on the electricity.  However it will be in a new 90-seat venue in a small shopping center at 5915 Severin Drive, where the theatre group will present a staged

Odette’s Secrets by Maryann Macdonald, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, (c) 2013, 978-1-5990-750-5; 225 pages,  $16.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Although classified as “fiction,” Odette’s Secrets cannot be so easily pigeonholed.  Author Maryann Macdonald found a copy of the real memoirs of the late Odette Meyers, who as a child in Nazi-occupied France had posed

Triumph and Tragedy: Journeying Through 1000 Years of Jewish Life in Poland, compiled by Joel Padowitz, J Roots (c) 2013, ISBN 978-1-937887-06-3, 264 pages including endnotes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Essentially this is a Jewish guide book to Poland.  The “triumph” portion focuses on the great rabbis and writers who preceded the