Donald H. Harrison

Adolescent violence increases in wake of rocket attacks

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Chronic exposure to rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel is causing an increase in severe adolescent violence, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. The study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), followed

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JNS news briefs: June 4, 2013

Kerry says time is running out on peace process (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned that time is running out on the peace process during a speech at the American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum in Washington, DC. “We’re running out of time. We’re running out of possibilities. And let’s be clear: If we

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JNS news briefs: June 3, 2013

No real peace without end to Palestinian incitement, Ya’alon says (JNS.org) Peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinians could be signed on paper, but as long as the Palestinians still educate their youth to hate Israelis, the peace “will blow up in our faces,” Israeli Defense Minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon said Monday. “The crux of

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Hebrew Day School celebrates 50th, memorializes Steimans

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School celebrated its 50th anniversary on Sunday  night, June 2,  at a banquet featuring  recollections of two of the school’s pioneer board presidents and a tribute to the late philanthropists  Morrie and Barbara Steiman who helped the  Orthodox Jewish school surmount some tough financial

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Donald H. Harrison

Ahhh, Mahler, Beethoven, Perlman and Mehta!

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TEL AVIV–Going to gala concerts isn’t really our thing, but when the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra announced that in honor of its return to the refurbished Heichal Hatarbut (Palace of Culture), its home in Tel Aviv, it would be performing Mahler’s fifth symphony, along with Beethoven’s violin concerto (with Itzhak Perlman as soloist)

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Coping strategies serve Israel, South Korea

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Things have never been better for many of us. Europeans are quarreling rather than killing one another. Jews are capable of reaching the top of virtually all professions, with decent housing and no worry about gentlemen’s agreements or restrictive covenants, and safe from plunder and pogroms. Life expectancy and other good stuff

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Former IDF soldier honored as student leader

By Della Elliott EL CAJON, California–Conscripted into the Israeli military at 18 and assigned to a unit specializing in clearing mine fields, Nir Shtern knows a thing a or two about performing under pressure. Now a 22-year-old Grossmont College student, the San Diego resident remembers  the practically overnight transition from carefree teen to  combat soldier

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