Donald H Harrison
Four Jewish Candidates Well Worth Supporting Nov. 8
SAN DIEGO – I’ve had the opportunity to get to know some of the people from our Jewish community who are running for office in the Nov. 8 election, and I would like to...
A Journal to Prompt Children to Express Themselves
SAN DIEGO – Here is a journal encouraging children between the ages of 7 and 13 to read, think, and write about everyday secular and Jewish topics. Because it will encourage their children’s self-expression,...
‘Summer Lightning’ and the Sudden Strikes of Love
Summer Lightning by Roberta Silman, Great Barrington, Mass.: Campden Hill Books; ISBN 97998985-926002; 317 pages; $15.
SAN DIEGO –This novel follows a Jewish family through nearly four decades of American history, starting with the couple’s chance...
Submerged Jewish Themes in ‘The Face of the Waters’
SAN DIEGO — At 87, Robert Silverberg has won every science fiction award there is on offer, not to mention a tremendously large fan base. You might think he has done it all, but...
Israeli Athlete Survived the Holocaust and the Munich Olympics Massacre
Donald H. Harrison
SAN DIEGO – ESPN and ESPN+ will premiere at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time, Tuesday, Sept 20, The Survivor, an hour-long documentary on the murder of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics. Reporter Jeremy...
Curator Vows Holocaust Exhibit Will Find a Permanent Home
Project RUTH – “Remember Us: The Holocaust” – which was on exhibit for two years at the Chula Vista Public Library is in the process of closing, but even though it soon will be...
Crime, Estranged Lovers Themes of Mystery Novel
Argentine mystery writer Sergio Olguín has conjured a hard-hitting Jewish investigative journalist Verónica Rosenthal as his protagonist in a mystery that begins with a traffic accident victim’s missing wife and child and eventuates into an investigation into illegal adoptions and sales of human body parts.
H’nai Matov: Brothers Working and Surviving Together
Here is a Holocaust memoir that is so well told that you feel like you are sitting in the room with Harry Lenga, listening to him as he relates the meaningful episodes of his...
A German Catholic Girl Learned of Life as a Persecuted Jew
Sabine Fröhlich grew up a Catholic in Breslau, Germany, but her ancestry was Jewish. Along with her parents and her older brother Andreas, she was declared to be a Jew according to the Nazis’...
Frida Kahlo Loved Jews So Much She Invented Jewish Ancestry
Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5, Chapter 19, Exit 14B (Cesar Chavez Parkway); Chicano Park
Turn left at Cesar Chavez Parkway exit, and murals will be at left side under the overpass. One of the...