Donald H. Harrison

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — An intimate gathering of Navy officers, Holocaust survivors and an offical from the Los Angeles consulate of the Netherlands commemmorated the Holocaust at Naval Medical Center San Diego on Friday, April 13,with personal remembrances of Dutch and Polish victims. Held in the main auditorium of what also is

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Chesed Home, a  group home for mentally ill Jewish adults, has been leased in Escondido, and fundraising is now underway to equip, staff and purchase what will become a licensed facility, according to Fern Siegel, president of Hope Village San Diego. Siegel, a former president of Jewish Family

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — When she was 13 years old, Cara Weiss had the opportunity to audition for a major movie role: that of Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank.   She didn’t get the part, but she got something better.   She identified so strongly with Anne, that she began writing

Israel’s Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, edited by Amos Gilbo and Ephraim Lapid, Gefen Publishing House,  Jerusalem, 2012, 385 pages including appendices, ISBN 978-965-229-528-6. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This collection of essays by members of Israel’s intelligence establishment has been thoroughly vetted to make sure nothing therein provides

This Day in San Diego History by Linda H. Pequegnat, Sunbelt Publications, 2009, ISBN 978-0-932653-90-1, $19.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There are 478 years between 1513, when Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and  1991, the year of the death of

    By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — On nearly any given weekday, the Main Quad at Grossmont College is a place where a student, faculty member or staff member might find entertainment, taste new foods, hear a speaker, or sample the wares of vendors, who have the choice of paying a fee

    By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — An English professor of mixed religious background has become a leading proponent of interdisciplinary studies not only at Grossmont College, where he teaches, but throughout San Diego’s higher education community. Tate Hurvitz, whose father is Jewish and mother is Lutheran, grew up in the San

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Transporting and setting up an orchestra at a new venue is an exercise in logistics with surprises not at all uncommon, says David Amos, conductor of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO). However, he says, the payoff is the possibility of building new audiences for classical music.  That’s what he’s

Slipping Reality by Emily Beaver, Author House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4634-2714-6, Price Unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Not since reading such Stefan Zweig short stories as “The Royal Game” and “Letters from an Unknown Woman,” have I encountered  such a thoroughly intriguing examination of the possible effects loneliness can have on the human

    By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California — For those who try to link Israel to the old apartheid regime of South Africa, artist Atara-Baker, who has lived in both countries, offers an emotional rejoinder, not in her words, but in her art. Yes, the art seems to say, there is a link