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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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By Donald H. Harrison CARLSBAD, California — It’s a cynical way to look at it, but perhaps parents of preschoolers and elementary school students will consider the recent economic slowdown as a blessing in disguise. When microbiologist Rudy Gonzalez was laid off from the biotech industry last year, he became a house husband. Taking
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San Diego Jewish World editor Donald H. Harrison recently returned from a roundtrip cruise to Hawaii. This is the eighth and final article resulting from that voyage. By Donald H. Harrison ABOARD MS ZAANDAM — The amount of food served on a cruise ship is legendary. It’s the source of diet jokes, worries,
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San Diego Jewish World editor Donald H. Harrison has returned to San Diego from a round-trip cruise to Hawaii. This is the seventh article in a series about that trip. By Donald H. Harrison HALIIMAILE, Maui, Hawaii — This rural area of Maui is where they grow and pack Maui Gold Pineapple, so
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Editor Donald H. Harrison is back from a roundtrip cruise between San Diego and the Hawaiian Islands. This is the sixth in a series of articles based on that experience. By Donald H. Harrison ABOARD MS ZAANDAM– Violinist Michael Bacala says he was inspired as a child by the Rocky movies starring Sylvester Stallone, especially
Violinist mixes humor with classics and pop Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and Food
San Diego Jewish World editor Donald H. Harrison recently returned from a round-trip cruise between San Diego and Hawaii. This is the fifth article in a series about that trip. By Donald H. Harrison VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii — As our van wended its way from the berth of Holland America Line’s Zaandam in
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Editor Donald H. Harrison has recently returned from a roundtrip cruise between San Diego and the Hawaiian Islands. Following is his fourth in a series of stories. By Donald H. Harrison KURTISTOWN, Hawaii — Usually my thinking about coffee runs no deeper than “do I want sugar or artificial sweetener to go with it?” although
Decisions, decisions. How should we choose our coffee? Read More »
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Editor Donald H. Harrison has recently returned from a roundtrip cruise between San Diego and the Hawaiian Islands. Following is his third in a series of stories. By Donald H. Harrison VOLCANO, Hawaii — The artist who created a Hawaiian Christmas ornament for the White House Christmas tree during the presidency of George W.
Jewish Hawaiian artist created White House Christmas ornament Read More »
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Editor Donald H. Harrison has recently returned from a roundtrip cruise between San Diego and the Hawaiian Islands. Following is his second in a series of stories. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — If you want the chance to meet someone and have an interesting conversation, involving hearing another perspective, take a cruise, like
On a cruise, one may encounter other points of view Read More »
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Editor Donald H. Harrison has recently returned from a roundtrip cruise between San Diego and the Hawaiian Islands. Following is his first in a series of stories. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The late Ted Geisel of La Jolla, a.k.a Dr. Seuss, enthusiastically wrote in one of his children’s books about
International flavor on a cruise to Hawaii Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonSusan Sherman, The Little Russian, Counterpoint © 2012, ISBN 978-1-61902-070-2, 332 pages, $15.95 By Donald H. Harrison This is an epic about Jewish survival in anti-Semitic Russia, in which the protagonist, Berta Lorkis, evolves from a self-important but poor relation in a rich relative’s home to a brave, self-sacrificing, single mother willing to risk
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Donald H. HarrisonShari Arison, Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World Through Doing Good, Hay House, © 2013, ISBN 978-1-4919-3797-3, 176 pages, $14.95. By Donald H. Harrison Shari Arison, daughter of the late Carnival Cruise Line founder Ted Arison, runs a network of international businesses and philanthropies in her own right and is ranked as one of the
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Donald H. HarrisonDorothea Shefer-Vanson, The Balancing Game: A Child Between Two Worlds, A Society Approaching War, © 2013, ISBN 978-1-62212-846-4; 258 pages, available through Amazon, $16.50. By Donald H. Harrison Readers of San Diego Jewish World are familiar with author Dorothea Shefer-Vanson as a columnist based in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion. She writes about such
Novel explores an off-balance childhood Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-VansonMy Mother’s Wars by Lillian Faderman, Beacon Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8070-50952-1; 243 pages, $25.95 By Donald H. Harrison This book is a cross between history and fiction; in it Lillian Faderman, well known for her writings on gay and lesbian subjects, examines the heterosexual life of her own single mother up to the time the
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Steve Kelley, editor, Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 2013 edition, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co., 2013; 206 pages, ISBN 9781455517760, $14.95 * By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Formerly a cartoonist with the Union-Tribune in San Diego, where he and Shelia Lawrence, widow of Hotel del Coronado owner M. Larry Lawrence became a
Much of Jewish interest in editorial cartoon’s 2013 annual Read More »
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