Donald H. Harrison

Israeli, American, Japanese researchers develop new burn ointment for diabetes patients

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– A low cost, nanometer-sized drug to treat chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers or burns, has been developed by a group of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard Medical School and others in the U.S. and Japan. Diabetes is a rapidly growing medical problem affecting close to three percent of the […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education

150 scholars attend ‘civil discourse’ on Middle East

MIAMI, Florida (Press Release) — Over 150 experts, representing many disciplines and fields, as well as a number of current and former government officials, participated in a recent conference on the U.S.-Israel special relationship held here.  The conference, sponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and hosted by the Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Jewish

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Predictions of new intifada based on faulty assumptions

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Major events in Lebanon,Tunis and Egypt, along with lesser noises from Yemen and Jordan have excited the Israeli and international peace camps to insist on greater efforts by Israel, the United States and others. If not, Israel will pay a heavy price in inevitable violence, and the rest of the world will

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

‘Lonely Planet’ cites Tel Aviv as among 2011’s top three tourist destinations

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— If Jerusalem is known as the city in which to pray, then neighboring Tel Aviv is definitely the place to play –– and study — according to travel authority Lonely Planet. Citing Tel Aviv as one of the world’s top three cities to visit in 2011 — New York claimed the #1 spot,

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Travel and Food

Auschwitz sign stealer transferred to Swedish prison

KRAKOW, Poland (WJC) — The former Swedish neo-Nazi leader Anders Högström, who organized the theft of the ‘Arbeit macht frei’ sign from Auschwitz, has been transferred to his home country to serve his three-year prison sentence. Högström was handed over to Swedish officials at Krakow Airport, according to media reports. Last December, a Polish court sentenced

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Travel and Food

Erdogan seeks to drum up popular Egyptian anger against Israel

ALEPPO, Syria  (Press Release)–Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that “Israel must under no circumstance interfere” in what is happening in Egypt. He told the Turkish newspaper ‘Hürriyet’ that the US and Greece should intervene to stop Israel should it be “inclined to meddle in Egypt in a last-ditch effort to try and

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Middle East

6 Democrats propose emergency House resolution voicing support for Egyptian people

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Representatives Jim Moran of Virginia, John Conyers of Michigan, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Michael Honda of  California, Jim McDermott of Washington, and Keith Ellison of Minnesota sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner asking the House to take up an emergency resolution to voice support for the Egyptian people. “The House of Representatives has

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Travel and Food

U.S., Turkey confer on combating terrorism

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano  met Monday with Turkish State Minister Hayati Yazici to discuss increasing collaboration between the United States and Turkey to combat terrorism and other transnational crime. During the meeting, Secretary Napolitano underscored the Obama administration’s commitment to working closely with Turkey to strengthen the security of the

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Travel and Food

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘War Against the Weak’

   By Paul Greenberg   LA JOLLA, Caifornia — In his ambitious, fact-filled, quick moving, visually appealing, but at times quite disturbing 2009  documentary, War Against the Weak (English, 90 minutes), director Justin Strawhand effectively traces the history of the devolution of the theory and practices of eugenics from the 1880’s to the end of World War

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Travel and Food

In praise of Shimon Peres

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Shimon Peres has held prominent positions in Israeli politics in general and (especially early in his career) in the defense establishment in particular since the inception of the state, even though the electorate has never liked him. Until the Knesset finally chose him to be Israel’s current president, he could

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Middle East

When we say ‘There’s a Jewish story everywhere,’ we’re thinking of stories like ‘Next Year in Bombay’

Next Year in Bombay, directed by Jonas Pariente and Mathias Manyin, Chai Chai Films. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Less than an hour in length, the gentle documentary Next Year in Bombay  takes viewers on a visit to three Jewish communities in India.  First is the Konkan coast, about 25 miles from Bombay (Mumbai),

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Travel and Food

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Paint What You Remember’

By Norman Greene  SAN DIEGO–Some people are born with photographic memories, others with painterly gifts.  Artist Mayer Kirshenblatt is blessed with both skills. In the gentle, 31 minute film, Paint What You Remember, viewers are offered a retrospect on this 94 year old’s memories of his hometown in Opatow, Poland through his paintings and his

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Shoah survivors protest Allianz golf tournament, say company should pay claims instead

BOCA RATON, Florida (WJC)–Holocaust survivors are set to picket a golf tournament in Florida sponsored by the German insurance company Allianz, which the protestors claim still owes an estimated US$ 2 billion in unpaid claims to survivors. They plan to block the Boca Raton course of the US$ 1.8 million Allianz Championship and to return

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