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.
Arab Labor, Israeli television sit-com, three episodes, produced by Yoni Faron, directed by Roni Ninio, written and created by Sayed Kashua and Daniel Faron By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Arab Labor is a controversial television sit-com that is aired in Israel and has developed quite an audience because it is politically incorrect, as comedies […]
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(column 13, January 27, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison _________________ Jewish organizations _________________ * A trialogue among representatives of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths will be conducted 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7, at Temple Adat Shaom, 15905 Pomerado Road, Poway. Host Rabbi David Castiglione will be joined on a panel by
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 12, January 24, 2011) * Compiled by Donald H. Harrison _______________________ Jewish organizations ________________________ Robert Zweiman, past national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, had an article in the January 20 issue of The Forward explaining his organization’s lawsuit against the Christian cross atop Mount Soledad. http://www.forward.com/articles/134845/ * The Anti-Defamation League’s multi-media Holocaust
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyOver 90 and Loving It, directed by Susan Polis Schutz, 70 minutes By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I had the triple privilege of watching this documentary with my father-in-law Sam Zeiden, 92, and seeing among the 14 vignettes, two about San Diegans whom I have met, the late Medal of Honor recipient John
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Donald H. HarrisonMatchmaker, directed by Avi Nesher, Hebrew with Engl.ish subtitles, 112 minutes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Yankale the Matchmaker (Adir Miller) is a Holocaust survivor who can’t persuade Clara (Maya Dagan), who was even more scarred by the Shoah than he, to marry him. But that doesn’t discourage him from offering his matchmaking
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An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada by Robert Eli Rubinstein, Urim Publications, Israel, and Lambda Publishers, Brooklyn, 2010, ISBN 978-965-524-044-3, 177 pages including appendices and endnotes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Perhaps the author and publishers were a bit too clever in titling this family memoir. Although a portion of the action
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison(Column 10, January 17, 2011) __________ News topics _________ Rethinking American Jewish Education * San Diego Israel Coalition is actively promoting the appearance at Congregation Beth El of Rabbi Daniel Gordis, who will be delivering three lectures Feb. 11-12 as the Scholar in Residence. On Friday evening following Shabbat Services, Gordis, senior vice president of
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 9, January 12, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison __________________ Jewish Organizations ___________________ The Center for Jewish Culture is sponsoring a poets’ night at the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family JCC. at 7:30 p.m., Jan 18. Heading for the microphone are local poets Ron Horvitz, and husband and wife Howard
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Why The Jews Were So Successful in the Wild West… by David Epstein, Isaac Nathan Publishing Co, Woodland Hills, 2009, ISBN-10-0-914615-35-1, 90 pages, $19.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – David Epstein’s short book, which can be gulped in a single sitting, tells the story of some remarkable Jewish characters in the history of
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Donald H. Harrison(Column 8, January 11, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison San Diego and Israel Boris Goldenberg, 20, grew up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with his mother and grandmother, knowing very little about his Jewish background. However, at the age of 17, he started studying Hebrew at a local Jewish community center. That led to
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 7, January 10, 2011) By Donald H.Harrison Tributes to Debbie Friedman, z”l San Diego’s Agency for Jewish Education, commenting on the death of Jewish composer Debbie Friedman on Sunday, commented that “Debbie was a great friend of the AJE, having performed many concerts during the years of Jewish Education Week, and at other numerous
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Donald H. Harrison(Column 6, January 8, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison The Education Beat * Send your kid to preschool and he or she is less likely to become a criminal. So said District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and Republican State Sen. Mark Wyland on a tour of the David & Jillian Gilmour Early Education Campus. According
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 5, January 7, 2011) Mount Soledad Controversy By Donald H. Harrison Two local Republican members of Congress- Brian Bilbray and Duncan Hunter—have written a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder urging them to defend the Mount Soledad cross as a “secular” monument and work to overturn a ruling by
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 4, January 6, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison San Diego and Israel Monica Bauer Federman, spokeswoman for the Anti-Defamation League, which always works closely with law enforcement agencies, says there will be a San Diego Police Department presence at the dueling Middle East rallies on Sunday afternoon in Balboa Park to make certain
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