By Joel A Moskowitz MD DEL MAR, California — The forthcoming San Diego County Fair in Del Mar is expected to have over one and a half million visitors. Fun loving persons will be exposed to a theme of “Game On.” The games enjoyed through the ages, board games and onward to games that are [...]
By Joel A Moskowitz MD LA JOLLA, California –With Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), who is a member of the Jewish community, leading the congressional charge against assault weapons, is there a preponderance of support within the Jewish community for such controls? Feinstein introduced the Federal Assault Weapons Ban which became law in 1994, but [...]
By Joel A. Moskowitz, MD LA JOLLA, California — The father of JFK and Bobby and Ted Kennedy was intimately involved in the world events leading up to World War II. And David Nasaw’s book The Patriarch: The remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph Patrick Kennedy tells it all. Published by Penguin Press this [...]
By Joel A Moskowitz M D LA JOLLA, California — Claudia Stevens, a multi-talented actress, singer, drummer, and historian brought to life “Madame F” on Monday evening, Nov. 26, at the Recital Hall of Mandeville Auditorium UCSD. Madame F is the abbreviated name for Fanja Fanelson (Goldstein) who was an award winning pianist. While she [...]
By Joel A Moskowitz M D DEL MAR, California –The recently ended San Diego County Fair brought to the ponderings of the famed Jewish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer: “I believe there is such a thing as haunted houses and reincarnation and I don’t think there will ever or could be scientific evidence of it. For [...]
By Joel A Moskowitz, M.D. SAN DIEGO — Lou Dunst is a Holocaust survivor. He is much sought after for his lucid ability to describe, despite the horrors of his experience, his continuing faith in G-d. Does he have the answer? There have been studies to attempt to correlate prayer and healing. “Anecdotal evidence” [...]
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol M.D.; Basic Books, 2012, ISBN-13: 9780465025503, 320 pages. By Joel A. Moskowitz MD, FAPA, FAAP LA JOLLA, California–Dr. Eric Topol is a genius, who is based here in La Jolla. The beginning of his book, The Creative Destruction of [...]
By Joel Moskowitz, M.D. SAN DIEGO — At a recent meeting of the Obstetrics and Gynecologic Society in the San Diego Convention Center, those entering were confronted by a myriad of anti-circumcisIon signs held by young males and females: “Circumcision is Unnecessary” A photo of a young baby boy “You’re gonna cut off what?!” “Circumcision [...]
By Joel A. Moskowitz M D LA JOLLA, California — Experimental Biology is the name of the multidisciplinary conference that has attracted 17,000 registrants from all over the world to the San Diego Convention Center. I was privileged to attend this vital assemblage of the newest developments in matters of human health. AAA (not [...]
By Joel A Moskowitz M D LA JOLLA, California — Why go to Synagogue? A recent lecture from a rabbinical leader of Reform Judiasm induced us to write this essay. It is from a personal experience, not from a member of the religious hierarchy. With almost eight decades of being a Jew, with various involvements [...]