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A Nazi’s son tells Book Fair how he became a Jew

By Jack Forman ENCINITAS, California — Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger captivated an audience of about 250 people at Temple Solel on Sunday, November 9 with an honest, moving, and provocative 45-minute talk at the Jewish Book Fair about his stranger-than-fiction life growing up in post-World War II Germany, converting to Judaism, raising a family in Israel, and

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle East

Obesity a factor in auto- immune diseases

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s Disease and multiple sclerosis, in which the immune system attacks its own body rather than predatory invaders, affect 5-20% of the global community. A study published recently in Autoimmunity Reviews by Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases at Tel Aviv University’s

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Grant awarded to wipe out parasitic worm infections

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Professor Zvi Bentwich has received a Grand Challenges in Global Health Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for his project in Ethiopia to wipe out parasitic worm infections. The funding will help support mass drug eradication efforts against these infections by implementing in parallel

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Omega-3 may reduce craving for nicotine

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Taking omega-3 supplements reduces craving for nicotine and even reduces the number of cigarettes that people smoke a day, according to a new study conducted at the University of Haifa. “The substances and medications used currently to help people reduce and quit smoking are not very effective and cause adverse effects that

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Many options for people dealing with Israel’s rabbinate

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Both Chief Rabbis are in the news, doing their part to soothe or disturb in different corners of the complex phenomenon that is Judaism. The Sephardi Chief Rabbi has weighed in on the issue of the Temple Mount, and has aroused the ire of Naftali Bennett, head of what considers itself

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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion, Middle East

GOP, Demo major givers back IAC

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Philanthropists and political power players Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban shared a stage for the first time Sunday, Nov. 9, to culminate the Israeli-American Council (IAC)’s First National Conference, debating a wide range of political issues but agreeing on the need for the U.S. to toughen its stance on a nuclear Iran. Adelson,

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Middle East, USA

Author faults Israel for 1979 killing of CIA asset

  By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – A Pulitzer Prize winning historian told attendees of the Jewish Book Fair at Temple Solel here that Israel’s Mossad was wrong in 1979 to assassinate P.L.O. intelligence chief Ali Hassan Salameh notwithstanding the fact that he was suspected of helping to mastermind the murder of Israeli athletes

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

From the Jewish library: A sad tale of Jew vs. Jew

How My Grandmother Prevented a Civil War, by Haggai Segal, Gefen Publishing, 2014 By Sheila Orysiek  SAN DIEGO — Haggai Segal’s grandparents immigrated to Palestine in the mid 1920’s.  They fell in love with the land though the living conditions were difficult; often with no electricity, no running water, malaria, famine, hostile Arab neighbors as

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