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 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Three family members of different ages and interests decided to tour four art museums in counterclockwise direction in Balboa Park—the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Timken Art Gallery, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Mingei International Museum. One family member, my grandson, Shor, 10, loves to

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Ever since 1852, the year Lewis Franklin was appointed foreman of the county Grand Jury and Louis Rose was elected as a member of the city Board of Trustees, Jews have played leadership roles in the affairs of the City of San Diego. So it’s not surprising that

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sometime before the Bill Clinton impeachment trial, the nation decided that a politician’s sexual conduct—in or out of marriage—wasn’t of our concern.  Even the Republicans who were leading the charge to force Clinton out of the White House weren’t saying that it was because he had sex with

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Up in San Francisco, a measure headed for the Nov. 8 ballot asks city voters to ban male circumcision inside the city limits.  Some see it as a thinly veiled attack on Jews and our religious beliefs.  Others accept take proponents at their word that they are just

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Having read about Palestinian demonstrators’ plans for massing along Syria’s border with Israel,  I had a fantasy about what Israel could have done…. Instead of shooting tear gas, rubber bullets and in some cases live ammunition, soldiers in my fantasy would have pulled back the gates and as the Palestinian crowd rushed

By Donald H. Harrison  SAN DIEGO – Call it Jewish pride, but if I had my druthers, I’d like to see the San Diego mayor’s race come down to a race between two members of our community:  District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a Republican, and Congressman Bob Filner, a Democrat. Now, it’s not that I have