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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 SAN DIEGO — Already Jewish Family Service has named the administrative wing of its Turk Family Center at 8804 Balboa Avenue for Jill Borg Spitzer. If some visitors walking down the corridor should chance to look up and ask, “What did she do?” how would they be answered? The community
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — As a service to readers, we’re now reposting our stories on Facebook. Quickly after an article goes up on San Diego Jewish World, it is also placed on the FB page: /San Diego Jewish World. We hope that as people see this service they will click on the
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Haazinu (Listen Up): A Book of Prophecy by Yerachmiel Ben-Yishe, Gefen Publishing House, 2011, 268 pages, ISBN 9789652295347,Retail price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Family members and an ex-lover of terminally ill patients gather before and after their hospital visits to share their sorrowful memories and to reflect on life’s larger purpose. In
By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM–As the center of the Jewish religious world, you would think that Jerusalem would have hosted a kosher wine festival before–but no, the first Jerusalem Kosher Wine Exhibit took place just this week at the Binyanei HaUma convention center. With a steep entry price of 70NIS per person (my press card
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — San Diego State University History Prof. Lawrence Baron was greeted with a full house Wednesday, Feb. 1, at Warwick’s Bookstore for his talk about The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema, an anthology he edited of movie analyses by 49 authors, including three from San Diego: himself,
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In the play Brooklyn Boy, novelist Eric “Ricky” Weiss (Cris O’Bryon) should feel as if he’s on top of the world. His roman-a-clef, also bearing the title Brooklyn Boy, has made it to Number 11 on the New York Times best seller list. Katie Couric has interviewed him
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Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult’s Guide to Building a Jewish Life, 2nd Edition by Rabbi Edward Feinstein, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2012, 140 pages, ISBN 978-1-58023-454-2-51599, U.S. cover price: $15.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Some years ago I interviewed a spokesperson for the Home Instruction for the Parents of Pre-School Youngsters program (or
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Congregation Beth Israel, celebrating its sesquicentennial year, on Thursday evening, Jan. 19, honored some five dozen past and present leaders from its congregation who have built and led the organizations that serve the Jewish community of San Diego. It treated these leaders and other members of the Reform congregation
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Raising Kids to Love Being Jewish by Doron Kornbluth, K’hal Publishing, ISBN 978-1-60204-016-8, 189 pages including notes, retail price unlisted By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Anyone who is active in the Jewish community will not be surprised by the suggestions here compiled by Doron Kornbluth, a Jerusalem writer. They follow mainline thinking that if you
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–When one of their movies was over, Hollywood movie moguls typically filmed a placard reading “The End.” But how were the end of their own lives marked on their tombstones? In an engaging article in the Winter 2012 issue of Western States Jewish History, Regina Merwin tracks down the gravestones
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– I should like to acknowledge a debt to three musicians whom I’ve never met, but whose fine work has made some historical research quite a bit easier. Their names are Yael Weiss, Mark Kaplan and Clancy Newman. Respectively, they play the piano, violin, and cello. Last year, Bridge Records
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Tribute was paid to the life of Roberta Dosick on Friday, Dec. 30, by three of this area’s most senior rabbis, including her son, Rabbi Wayne Dosick, leader of the Elijah Minyan of Carlsbad, California. Funeral services for the 89-year-old Roberta Dosick were co-conducted at Tifereth Israel
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Grandson Sky is an energetic four-year-old. With only a little coaxing he will clean up whatever room he left looking like it was subjected to a hurricane. But I’m not certain that he is ready to absorb the lesson at the downtown Children’s Museum that the world
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Second through fourth grade students who participate in Deeds by Kids, a nonprofit organization that encourages them to practice volunteerism and philanthropy, saw the payoff for their first project on Friday, Dec. 16. The reward came in the form of smiles from nearly 200 students of Cabrillo
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