Donald H. Harrison

  By Donald H. Harrison MOORPARK, California –Reflecting on a Civil War reenactment that was staged at the Underwood Family Farms here, I found myself focusing on two lessons from the proceedings.  First, a mistake may snowball into a disaster.   And second, charisma can outlast even death. Our nation is now observing the sesquicentennial of

SAN DIEGO– One of Israel’s foremost performers of Yemenite music — Sagiv Cohen — says he finds surprising similarities in mood and lyrics between the historic songs of African-Americans and those of the Jews of Yemen. In San Diego on a private family visit, Cohen explained that both peoples — African-Americans during the time of

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Recently I learned, to some shock, that one of the people who helped make the Top Gun school at Miramar Naval Air Station famous–Ehud Yonay –had died  of brain cancer on August 21 at age 71 in Israel. Yonay, a journalist and a student of the military, had written

With Great Power…The Stan Lee Story by Epix 1821 pictures, 2012, 80 minutes, ISBN 0788616153. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Stan Lee (né Stanley  Martin Lieber) started in the comic business in the 1930s by perfecting the character “Captain America,” and  watched the industry grow in the 1940s.  He suffered a setback in the

The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel by Denis Brian;  Gefen Publishing House, 978-965-229-598-9, 415 pages including bibliography and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The nice thing about writing a biography about someone who is no longer living is that the record of the person’s life is

The Surgeon’s Wife by William H. Coles,  AuthorHouse, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4567-6255-1, 201 pages, cover price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There are a handful of Jewish characters in this novel about two surgeons who struggle over the love of a woman and the ethics of offering surgeries to help obese people