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.
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The visitors center at Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is in the Robinson-Rose Building. It is named for James W. Robinson and Louis Rose, two pioneer San Diegans who met on a wagon train, became friends, and within a few years of their arrival in San […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A visit to the dinosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum of San Diego can provide the so-called mighty human with a humbling perspective. Creatures in the air, on land and in the sea all might have regarded him as nothing more than a tasty lunch. Luckily for man, he
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By Donald H. Harrison JULIAN, California – Whites who had been slaveholders and blacks who had been slaves contributed to the early history of Julian. Today, in the colorful mountain town of gold mines, apples and antiques, both groups of people as well as other ethnic groups are remembered and honored. One of
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By Donald H. Harrison CARLSBAD, Calif—Although Leo Carrillo had become a fairly well known star on Broadway, it wasn’t until after Sam Warner talked him into becoming a movie actor that his fame became international. With earnings from the movies, Carrillo was able to purchase in 1937 a large ranch in the hills of
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This coming September 11, the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, General Dynamics NASSCO plans to christen and launch the USS Washington Chambers, named for the Navy officer who arranged a century ago for the first airplane flight from the deck of a Navy ship. Having
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL CITY, California—In the mid 1980s, San Diego’s Acting Mayor Bill Cleator organized the San Diego Cruise Industry Consortium – an association of private and public entities that all shared an interest in attracting cruise ships to this city. Thirty years later, thanks to a sustained marketing follow-up by the Port
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL CITY, California – Observing the National City Marine Terminal from the top deck of M.V. Jean Anne, a 13,000-metric ton ship that transports automobiles and other cargo between San Diego County and the Hawaiian Islands, I could imagine four 19th Century San Diego pioneers standing there with me and nudging each
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Donald H. Harrison AGUANGA, California—The olive groves in this rural Riverside County community about 20 miles east of Temecula may become one of the growing grounds for Middle Eastern peace if Israeli, Palestinian and American visionaries are successful in promulgating the idea that entrepreneurship and business cooperation between the Middle Eastern neighbors
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Miramar National Cemetery was dedicated Saturday, January 30, 2010, by two members of Congress and ranking officials of the military and Veterans Administration with promises that San Diego will once again be able to bury the bodies of its veterans—and not only their ashes—before the end of the year.
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SAN DIEGO—For more than a month, workers have been laboring at county-owned Heritage Park in Old Town to restore the original Temple Beth Israel and six other historic buildings to the glory of their 19th century conditions, while preparing the overall development for a new life as a reception hall and bed-and-breakfast park. Partners Bill
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Today, Katherine Olivia Sessions (1857-1940) might have gotten an argument from conservationists who believe introduction of new plant species adversely impact the surrounding eco-system. However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when San Diego was attempting to attract businesses and new residents, Sessions was highly admired
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Except for the fact that there are no moving sidewalks—or vehicles with safety bars that snap you in for a ride—the new Mormon Battalion Museum at Old Town San Diego is similar to a Disneyland experience. It is high-tech, interactive, and well thought out every step of
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Plaintiffs’ Plight 1984 by Donald Moses, Author House, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4490-2633-2, 362 pages, By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A new solo practitioner has burst onto the literary legal scene: the meticulous but fictional lawyer Dan Masters, who not only has the same initials as the author but who, like him, is a San Diego-based attorney.
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The exterior of the San Diego House adobe in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is unremarkable, but historians will tell you that the building had a way of attracting to its ownership over the last century and a half the kind of people of whom legends
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