Donald H. Harrison

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The contrast between the speaker’s surroundings and her subject matter was vivid on Friday, Feb. 8, at a Point Loma Rotary Club meeting. The weekly get-together was held in an upstairs room of the San Diego Yacht Club, with header beams above the windows festooned with

Connie G. Krupin, A Time To Be Born: A Jewish Baby Journal, Arbador Publications LLC, (c ) 2012, 119 pages, ISBN 978-0-615-57127-0, $50. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — From the inside covers with a family tree on which may be filled forbearers’ English and Hebrew names to the Hebrew glossary at the end

Letters to Talia by Dov Indig, Gefen Publishing House, (c) 2012, ISBN 978-965-229-601-6; 189 pages, retail price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The correspondence in this book took place 40 years ago — not an insignificant time span in Hebrew literature–but the issues the two young correspondents tackled are timeless ones. 

Into the Light: The Healing Art of Kalman Aron by Susan Beilby Magee, Hard Press Editions, (c) 2012, ISBN 978-1-55595-385-0; 220 pages including index of illustrations, $50. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This is an extraordinary biography of an artist who survived the Holocaust, wrestled with it in his paintings and drawings, and eventually

  Photos and story by Donald H. Harrison SANTEE, California — There’s a lesson to be learned from the water fowl that live, and visit, the Santee Lakes.  They all seem to get along pretty well despite their obvious differences.  We humans may have our racists, but in the world of water fowl, there don’t

Colors From a Zionist’s Palette by Ariel Larkey, Geffen Publishing (c) 2012; ISBN 978-965-229-605-4; 63 pages, retail price unlisted By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The colors referred to in this title probably are in pastel –very light shades, in fact — to match the story-telling style of author Ariel Larkey.  His tales are pleasing,

The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler, St. Martin’s Press, (c) 2013, ISBN 978-1-250-01006-4, 360 pages, $24.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Shortly after World War II, an Eastern European lady assumes the identity of a dead woman and agrees to travel to Canada to marry Sol Kramer.  Once she gets there, however,  for reasons

Dan Fulop, Bob Breitbard: San Diego’s Sports Keeper,” AuthorHouse, (c) 2012; ISBN 978-1-4634-1020-9, 166 pages including notes and bibliography. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Sportsman Bob Breitbard devoted his life to recognizing athletes and to making San Diego a professional sports town.  He was the man who built the Sports Arena (now called

By Donald H. Harrison  SAN DIEGO — The Rabbi’s Cat, an animated French-language, English-subtitled film playing in a limited engagement at Landmark’s Hillcrest Theatre from Friday, Jan. 18 through Thursday, Jan. 24, is an adventure story in which a talking cat, his rabbi master, an Arab sheikh, an exiled czarist Russian and a Russian Jewish

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Mayor Bob Filner, in his first State of the City message, lauded San Diegans who have brought glory to the city in the past, while indicating new directions for the city’s future.  He forecast for his first term pronounced emphasis on bilateral relations with Tijuana, marketing San Diego

Aliza Auerbach, Survivors, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem (c) 2012, ISBN 978-965-229-586-6, 208 pages, cover price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This coffee-table book was a bit formulaic for my taste, but it does make in photographs the Talmudic point that to save one life is as if to save the world.