Donald H. Harrison

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California–As we left the Stagehouse Theatre of Grossmont College on Saturday, Dec. 7,  my grandson Shor, 12, said apologetically that he really didn’t care for Follow Me, a production that the Theatre Arts Department had taken on tour to numerous elementary schools in San Diego County.  According to […]

Natasha Josefowitz, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after Loss, Prestwik Poetry Publishing Co, ISBN 9781484141328, 2013, 93 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– I have known Natasha Josefowitz and her late husband Herman Gadon for many years.  Natasha is kind enough to regularly contribute a column to San

Miriam Luxenberg, “Code Blue,” Jerusalem Publications, 2013, ISBN, 978-0-9888958-3-6, 208 pages By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There are two major ethical dilemmas presented in this novel.  In the first, a mother gives birth and doctors say her child is irreparably brain damaged.  They want to take the little boy off life support.   Elsewhere

Nick Kotz, The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas, TCU Press, 2013, ISBN 9780875655673, 320 pages, $25.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–I suppose the thing that makes me the saddest about The Harness Maker’s Dream is that the “villain” in this excellent-reading story about the Kallison family empire in

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON–An art exhibit to be shown through Thursday, Dec. 12, at Grossmont College’s Hyde Art Gallery explores how artists are influenced by their mentors.  The works of five artists are examined, including those of the late Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson, a husband-and-wife team who inspired the works and

Aletha Gold and Luca Zordan, Children of Israel, Gefen Publishing House, 2013, ISBN 9789652296238;  191 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Here is a photo book portraying the multi-ethnic character of Israel while expressing the wish that the children pictured can grow up together in peace. It is a volume with voluminous purposes:

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – As if Thanksgiving and the first day of Chanukah falling on the same day were not coincidence enough, the comet ISON will be at its closest point to the sun—about 750,000 miles away– on that day, Thursday, Nov. 28th. Grossmont College Astronomy Prof. Ross Cohen says for

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Celebrating her 99th birthday with family and friends at a Westgate Hotel brunch, Gabriella Hartstein Auspitz Labson, with the help of film maker Yale Strom, showed a documentary on Sunday, Nov. 24,  about her life in a town that changed hands between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and her subsequent rescue

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Friends from many walks of life gathered to pay tribute to Laura Simon on Saturday night, November 23, in anticipation of her 108th birthday, which comes Nov. 26.  If you can’t remember the date, check with Interim Mayor Todd Gloria’s office.  He proclaimed Nov. 26th to be “Laura Simon

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–I think it is only fair to warn student journalists that anything they write for their publications–anything–may follow them around for the rest of their lives.  Now, this can be a good thing, as in two tales I will soon relate, or it can be a very bad thing, if

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — When Jews comfort someone whose family member or close friend has died, we often use the phrase, “May his/ her memory be for a blessing.” We hope that after the immediate shock of her death wears off, and her husband thinks of her, he will think of

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — Ironically on an evening that television news was reporting the firing of a school bus driver for having a swastika and a personalized license plate reading “Not See,” a homonyn for “Nazi”  on his private car, KPBS Television and Union Bank were feting 18 diverse individuals at