Donald H. Harrison

EL CAJON, California  (Press Release)– Grossmont College has announced that Donald H. Harrison, creator of San Diego Jewish World, an online newspaper, has been selected as a new instructor for the class that produces the student newspaper called The Summit. In addition to a print version of the student newspaper, Harrison says he is planning

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A small crowd gathered in the sanctuary of Temple Emanu-El on Thursday evening, August 12, to meet the poet Gertrude Rubin of Chicago, who was introduced by her daughter and son-in-law, Bonnie and Lawrence Baron. Rabbis Martin Lawson and Lenore Bohm helped make the introductions, with Bohm reading  two of

Benny The Big Shot by Tehilla Deutsch, illustrations by Vitaliy Romanenko, Nanuet, N.Y.: Feldheim Publishers, 2010, 25 pages including glossary, ISBN 978-1-59826-468-5, $12.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — With school soon to go back into session, this is an enjoyable, cautionary, tale about how students must struggle against becoming jealous of each other. 

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—It has been four years since Lawrence Baron was succeeded by Risa Levitt Kohn as head of the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University, but he’ll be back at the helm—temporarily—this upcoming academic year while Kohn takes a sabbatical in Israel where she’ll work with that nation’s antiquities

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The late Ed McMahon, a former colleague on NBC’s “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” might have introduced Shelly Cohen on Sunday afternoon, July 25,  at the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s pop concert, with a drawn out  “Heeeeeere’s Shelly!”   Such an introduction would have been in keeping with the show business

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In the Toy Story series of movies, toys wait for people to leave the room before they transform themselves into living, talking beings.  But at the Comic-Con convention at the San Diego Convention Center, all such formalities are dispensed with.  Toys become alive whether humans are present or