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.
The Gilboa Iris by Zahava D. England, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, 2012, ISBN 978-965-229-574-3, 454 pages, Price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –A young American girl wearing a dress has an embarrassing moment trying to get down from a tree. Her muscular Israeli boyfriend comes to her aid, and they kiss with enthusiasm […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A city council candidate learned the ins and outs of government for eight years serving on the staff of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. He also worked for the San Diego Chamber of Commerce and later for the Service Employees International Union. As a result, Mat Kostrinsky, 41, says he has
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food
A Lasting Reward: Memoirs of an Israeli Diplomat by Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-539-2, 309 pages, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Author Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov, who left Germany as a child and thereby was saved from the Holocaust, returned to Germany and Austria as an Israeli diplomat, and additionally served his
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–It’s been a busy week, marked by death, media controversy, a book release, birthdays and a brit milah for people closely associated with San Diego Jewish World, and I’d like to take the personal time to acknowledge and comment on these. First, as all our readers know by now, the
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Donald H. Harrison, Shor M. Masori
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California–Of course administrators and faculty members at Grossmont College are smart, but they aren’t always very technically minded. Some of them, you’ll forgive the expression, are “klutzes” when it comes to the computers and audio-visual equipment that are on the “smart carts” in some 150 classrooms on the
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –“‘Give me liberty or give me death,” said the American Revolutionary War orator Patrick Henry. “And, while you’re at it,” add community members at the high school named after him, “give me a decent performing arts center too!” Since Patrick Henry High School’s construction in 1968, its students have had to
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Whimsy was a theme of Grossmont College’s two-day festival celebrating its 50th anniversary. An old-fashioned sock hop in the college’s gymnasium on Friday, April 13, looked back to the college’s founding in 1962, and students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends gave the “old college try” on
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — An intimate gathering of Navy officers, Holocaust survivors and an offical from the Los Angeles consulate of the Netherlands commemmorated the Holocaust at Naval Medical Center San Diego on Friday, April 13,with personal remembrances of Dutch and Polish victims. Held in the main auditorium of what also is
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Chesed Home, a group home for mentally ill Jewish adults, has been leased in Escondido, and fundraising is now underway to equip, staff and purchase what will become a licensed facility, according to Fern Siegel, president of Hope Village San Diego. Siegel, a former president of Jewish Family
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Recently, I attended a matinee performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie up in Ventura County. I enjoyed it, and why not, my teenage grand-niece, Ashlee Ford, had the title role, and I got to see her sing, dance, and even get kissed by a fellah on stage. Afterwards, my brother Bill,
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Carol Davis, Cynthia Citron, Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — When she was 13 years old, Cara Weiss had the opportunity to audition for a major movie role: that of Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank. She didn’t get the part, but she got something better. She identified so strongly with Anne, that she began writing
Otto Frank’s correspondent settles in San Diego Read More »
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Israel’s Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, edited by Amos Gilbo and Ephraim Lapid, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, 2012, 385 pages including appendices, ISBN 978-965-229-528-6. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This collection of essays by members of Israel’s intelligence establishment has been thoroughly vetted to make sure nothing therein provides
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Besides the name of flutist Susan Kornberg Simpson were enough symbols to make one wonder if someone was exclaiming something in comic book talk! But the key at the bottom of the program explained that one symbol meant that the Patrick Henry High School musician performs in the
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This Day in San Diego History by Linda H. Pequegnat, Sunbelt Publications, 2009, ISBN 978-0-932653-90-1, $19.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There are 478 years between 1513, when Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and 1991, the year of the death of
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