TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Renowned in the physics community for the “Aharonov-Bohm Effect,” Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Yakir Aharonov, 78, is one of 10 scientists to win America’s National Medal of Science this year. He will receive the award from the hands of President Barack Obama at the White House in a November ceremony. “The
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Science, Medicine, & EducationLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 16th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair presents four approaches to Jewish humor with movie producer and writer Sam Hoffman on Fri., Nov. 5 at noon; satirist Gary Shteyngart exchanging witty repartee with Mark Oppenheimer on Sat., Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m.; and a side-splitting evening of stand-up
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Laura Harari, a lifelong Jewish educator and a recently ordained rabbi, benefitted from both experiences. As a child, her “first real exposure” to Jewish life was through summer camping and informal education. She attended a Reform Jewish camp operated in Wisconsin by the Olin-Sang-Ruby-Union Institute. Later, she
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Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The following statement is issued by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon. U.S. and Israeli delegations, headed by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon, met today in Washington to continue the semi-annual U.S.-Israel Strategic Dialogue. The
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Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of Lebanon from Bosnia without apparent irony. “The United States supports the integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. We reject any efforts to destabilize or inflame tensions within Lebanon,” she said, according to the BBC. “We would hope that no visitor would do anything
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Shoshana BryenTEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Information on proteins is critical for understanding how cells function in health and disease. But while regular proteins are easy to extract and study, it is far more difficult to gather information about membrane proteins, which are responsible for exchanging elements essential to our health, like copper, between a cell
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Science, Medicine, & Education
(Editor’s Note: Friends and relatives gathered at Temple Emanu-El on Saturday evening, October 16, in memory of Jewish educator Marty Wertlieb, who died Sept. 18. Speakers included Rabbis Yael Ridberg of Congregation Dor Hadash and Martin S. Lawson of Temple Emanu-El; Wertlieb’s husband, David, and daughters Jessica and Lise, and Aaron Borovoy, a congregant whom she
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyTEHRAN (WJC)–Israel would “soon go to hell,” Iran’s hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, calling on the West to drop support for the Jewish state. “Grounds are being prepared for the Zionist regime to go to hell soon, and any country supporting this regime will join it on its trip to hell as well,”
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–More than 20,000 artworks stolen by the Nazis from Jews can now be searched in an online catalog. A new online database lets Holocaust survivors and their relatives search details of the artifacts looted during World War II in Nazi-occupied France and Belgium. The database is a joint project of the Conference of
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Travel and FoodMELBOURNE (WJC)–Several Australian labor unions have endorsed the international campaign to boycott Israeli goods from the West Bank and are campaigning to get a boycott adopted by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the umbrella body. The Electrical Trades Union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, the Queensland branch
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – In the J*Company’s current production of Fiddler on the Roof, there are 85 performers, some 50 or so more than the Broadway show or the movie had speaking parts for. An important challenge for director Joey Landwehr was to devise meaningful roles for these child actors and
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Donald H. Harrison
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Camp Jaycee Opens June 27 Southwestern Jewish Press, April 15 1955, Page 3 The day camp operated by the Jewish Community Center will develop its 1955 program around a mature group of counselors and specialist, according to Leonard Zlotoff, chairman of the program committee. Albert Hutler, who will
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By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD–Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman still stands as the monumental and definitive portrait of a man of the post-World War II generation, angst-ridden, driven, and ultimately crushed by the nightmarish underside of the American Dream. In a comparably brilliant play, Edmund White brings that portrait up to date with a harrowing
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Middle East analyst, author and columnist Barry Rubin, a former U.S. Senate aide who founded an international affairs research institute in Herzliya, sometimes engages in “what happens the day after” speculation. What happens the day after Iran gets a nuclear bomb? he pondered during his visit to San Diego
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