Donald H. Harrison

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It was only a week ago, wasn’t it, that I was rhapsodizing about the yellow wildflowers that had graced our back yard lawn?  https://www.sdjewishworld.com/?p=16574  Our gardener evidently didn’t read my column.  On Saturday, he mowed the lawn, transporting every single one of the wild flowers into his lawn

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – My backyard is now carpeted in green and yellow – the green being what we commonly call “grass” and the yellow either “weeds” or “wildflowers” depending on a person’s point of view.  Those who want to exercise control over their domains probably would call them “weeds.”  People like

In the Shadow of Death by Joseph Foxman, Yad Vashem and the Holocaust Survivors Memoirs Project, 2011, 198 pages including photos and reproduction of Yiddish manuscript, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Perhaps the principal value of this Holocaust memoir is that it documents how Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League,

Finding Emilie by  Laurel Corona, Gallery Books, 2011, 427 pages plus reading guide and conversation with author, $15. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Questions often arise about biblical passages, which seem to skip a lot of material.  To fill in those blanks, rabbis over the centuries have written explanatory stories known as  medrashim.