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Birthright expands eligibility for free trips to Israel

January 22, 2014

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org The Taglit-Birthright Israel program has expanded eligibility for its free 10-day trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18-26, JNS.org has learned. Teenagers who went on an educational trip to Israel during high school were previously not eligible for Birthright trips, but can now participate, confirmed Noa Bauer, Birthright’s vice president […]

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Math: Some people add; others multiply

January 22, 2014

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Children understand numbers differently than adults. For kids, one and two seem much farther apart than 101 and 102, because two is twice as big as one, and 102 is just a little bigger than 101. It’s only after years of schooling that we’re persuaded to see the numbers in

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Byzantine church ruins found by Israeli archaeologists

January 22, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Wednesday, Jan. 22, that it has uncovered a 1,500 years old church, with a magnificent mosaic and five inscriptions adorning its floors. The church was uncovered during Israel Antiquities Authority salvage excavations, prior to the construction of a new neighborhood at Moshav Aluma in

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Science, Medicine, & Education

JNS news briefs: January 22, 2014

January 22, 2014

Shimon Peres: Recognition of Israel as Jewish state ‘unnecessary’ (JNS.org) Israeli President Shimon Peres has called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state “unnecessary” and a possible impediment to Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations, Israel Hayom reported. In conversations with diplomatic and political officials in recent weeks, Peres said it

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International

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, August 23, 1957, Part 1

January 21, 2014

Jewish Center Group Seeks $150,000 for Building Southwestern Jewish Press, August 23, 1957, Page 1 The Executive Committee of the Jewish Community Center reported the need for an additional $150,000 in cash in order to be completely ready for the opening of the new Jewish Community Center building on April 1, 1958, according to William

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Travel and Food

Israel Prize for Talmudic scholar Shamma Friedman

January 21, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) announced that Dr. Shamma Friedman, Benjamin and Minna Reeves Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, will receive the 2014 Israel Prize at a ceremony to take place on Yom Ha’atzma’ut (Israeli Independence Day), which falls on May 6. The Israel Prize is Israel’s highest honor, awarded

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Italians help Israel protect historic sites

January 21, 2014

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–As the tallest structure in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Tower of David is a famous and familiar symbol to residents and tourists who pass through Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate. The ancient citadel compound contains at least 2,000 years’ worth of history dating back to the First Temple period. But the symbolic

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Science, Medicine, & Education

JFS gala to honor philanthropists, hear Matisyahu

January 21, 2014

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Annual Heart & Soul Gala of Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) will take place on Sunday, March 9, starting at 5 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla. This year’s theme, Believe in Love, celebrates the extraordinary accomplishments of the 2014 Mitzvah Award Honorees Carol and Rick Kornfeld

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San Diego County

Skirball celebrates architecture of Moshe Safdie

January 21, 2014

By Edmon J. Rodman/JNS.org LOS ANGELES—“Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie,” on display at Los Angeles’s Skirball Cultural Center through March 2, lets the light shine in on the famed Israeli-Canadian architect’s work around the world. Through architectural models, photos, and renderings, the retrospective reveals how Safdie, who was born in Haifa in 1938

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Travel and Food

New train opens Negev to tourism

January 21, 2014

By Jeffrey F. Barken/JNS.org Past the Gaza Strip, toward the rocket-battered city of Sderot, a new train now connects isolated Negev communities to the larger Israeli population centers. Not surprisingly, the Sderot line also opens the gates to increased tourism in that region. For many people in Sderot, the new rocket-proof train station, which

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Travel and Food

Don’t forget Jewish poverty in Europe

January 21, 2014

By Alan H. Gill/JNS.org When the economic crisis hit Bulgaria in 2011, Yana—a Jewish mother of three—was one of the first casualties. She lost her job as an optician and suddenly her family had to survive on her husband’s meager salary of $500 a month. Bills pilled up quickly, and soon they were $8,000 in

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International

JNS news briefs: January 21, 2014

January 21, 2014

Holocaust awareness program at Auschwitz museum launches in Arabic and Farsi (JNS.org) The Auschwitz museum, which is located at the site of the former Nazi death camp in Poland, says it has launched an online program on Holocaust awareness in the Arabic and Farsi languages. The museum says it gets very few visitors from the

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International

JCC cancels Eyal Golan’s show, Reader reports

January 21, 2014

Editor’s Note: Following story is reprinted from the Jan. 20 online edition of the San Diego Reader Jewish center canceled singer’s show Eyal Golan suspected of sex with minor By Don Bauder Jewish media such as the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Telegraphic Agency are reporting that San Diego’s Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center canceled a

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Travel and Food

Behind closed doors, Harper can aid Mideast peace

January 21, 2014

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — My column in the Toronto Star last Monday suggested that Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proof that you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. His speech at the special session of the Knesset later that day illustrated it. The probably pre-planned heckling and subsequently staged

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Middle East

Birthright expands eligibility for free trips to Israel

Math: Some people add; others multiply

Byzantine church ruins found by Israeli archaeologists

JNS news briefs: January 22, 2014

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, August 23, 1957, Part 1

Israel Prize for Talmudic scholar Shamma Friedman

Italians help Israel protect historic sites

JFS gala to honor philanthropists, hear Matisyahu

Skirball celebrates architecture of Moshe Safdie

New train opens Negev to tourism

Don’t forget Jewish poverty in Europe

JNS news briefs: January 21, 2014

JCC cancels Eyal Golan’s show, Reader reports

Behind closed doors, Harper can aid Mideast peace

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