August 2011

Three businessmen named to Jewish Community Foundation board

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish  Community Foundation has elected three new prominent community members to join its Board of Directors.  Marc Channick, Luis Maizel and Brian Miller are widely respected members of the business community and have distinguished themselves as  leaders in the non-profit sector.  Their three-year terms began on July 1, 2011 and all […]

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San Diego Calendar

Why the financial community repudiates American politicians

By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California– The month-old painful spectacle of  Washington partners-in-government fighting  each other on “raising the debt limit,”something that should have never occurred in the first  place, has strengthened my belief, expressed in a previous column, that the  system as presently constituted is broke and, as a result, we have a  dysfunctional

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USA

Jewish Federations laud bill to aid aging Holocaust survivors

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—The Jewish Federations of North America lauded the introduction of a Congressional bill to provide support for agencies serving Holocaust survivors as they age in place in communities across the country.  This bill is a result of meetings and discussions that Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Iliana Ros-Lehtinen conducted with Holocaust survivors and social

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USA

While you watch your computer, it will watch your posture

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– A multidisciplinary  team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has developed a new training method using a desktop webcam to improve ergonomic posture and reduce the risk of  musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) among office workers using computers. According to an article in Applied Ergonomics in  the forthcoming issue, a group of 60

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Science, Medicine, & Education

New Tisha B’Av tragedy: S&P’s downgrading of U.S. bonds

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The first music that I heard on Israel radio this morning (Tuesday, August 9th, ט’ באב) was עַל נַהֲרוֹת, בָּבֶל–שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ, גַּם-בָּכִינוּ: בְּזָכְרֵנוּ, אֶת-צִיּוֹן. My old brain heard transformed that into Peter, Paul and Mary, “By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept when we remembered thee Zion . .

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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion