BEERSHEVA, Israel (Press Release)–Researching clean water solutions is no new task for BGU, with water recycling technologies being used on its desert campuses. But the desert is not the only place where water research is important. In June, BGU and the University of Chicago signed a water research agreement in the presence of Chicago […]
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Science, Medicine, & Education
JAFFA, Israel (Press Release)–Khouloud Ayouti has been working at the Peres Center for Peace for two and a half years in the Peace Education department. Since joining the team, Khouloud has been instrumental in maintaining and growing programs in the fields of technology and IT, while enhancing Peace Education through Technology programs. She truly believes
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Middle East
By Anav Silverman KIEV, Ukraine – The current political crisis in Ukraine has propelled its Jewish community to request emergency training from Israeli emergency response organizations, United Hatzalah and ZAKA. As the Ukrainian crisis developed during the past three months of anti-government protests, Ukrainian rabbis appealed for help in emeregency response training. Rabbi Moshe Reuven
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education
By JNS.org We all recognize that poppy seed or jam taste when we bite into Hamantaschen on Purim every year. But given the right filling, or dough, the traditional pastry has a lot more to offer. Hailed as the “Queen of Kosher” and the “Jewish Rachael Ray,” best-selling author Jamie Geller is the founder of the Kosher Media Network, publisher
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Travel and Food
By Judy Lash Balint/JNS.org JERUSALEM– Israelis take Purim seriously—kids get the day off school, many towns put on a lively Purim parade, and the streets are filled with people of all ages running about in costumes, delivering mishloach manot baskets of prepared food goodies to their friends and neighbors before sitting down to the
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Jewish ReligionBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Last year, for various reasons, the annual conference of the Israel Translators Association was not held. Consequently, this year’s event, which was held in Herzliya at the beginning of February, was eagerly awaited. The three-day programme comprised around fifty lectures and workshops, some of them held concurrently, interwoven
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–It seems that “seasonal depression” influences the price of shares in the stock exchange: shares that have been issued in the fall and winter, when the days are shorter and there are less hours of daylight, went up after the issue less than shares that have been issued during spring and summer.
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Several of my correspondents have asked what we should do in the presence of our insoluble problem with the Palestinians. Immediately, not much. Wait for the dust to settle, both that raised by the present flurries of John Kerry, and the larger chaos throughout the Middle East, some of which we can
Not being accepted: Israel’s and Jews’ lot in life? Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Carmit Madar WASHINGTON (TNA) – The 2014 AIPAC Convention commenced with the singing of the Spangled Banner and the Hatikvah by Hagit Yassu, a young Israeli singer, who was among over 13,000 attendants from around the world, from all religions and walks of life, came together to show support for Israel. The convention hosted
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Middle East, USANetanyahu and California Gov. Jerry Brown sign pro-business agreement (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and California Governor Jerry Brown signed a pro-business pact on Wednesday. The agreement aims to expand and strengthen cultural, academic, and economic ties between Israel and California, with an emphasis on water conservation, alternative energy, cyber defense, biotechnology, health, agritech,
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– It may not have been as spectacular as the rescue at Entebbe, but the capture of the ship full of long range Iranian missiles on its way to Hamas in Gaza is very good news for Israel in general and its prime minister in particular. Having, by all accounts, just
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Middle East
ENCINITAS, California– The yearly Purim Carnival celebration at Temple Solel will be held on Sunday, March 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The carnival is open to the public and raises money to help fund educational programs at Temple Solel. The festivities include something for everyone, from games and rides for the kids, to
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San Diego Calendar
By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was speaking about those well-meaning, but naïve college students who “torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” Lewis’s
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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education