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Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 19, 2018 (3 items)

Ben-Gurion University develops new anti-malware methodology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Malware Lab researchers have developed a new method to detect unknown, malicious emails that is more accurate than the most popular antivirus software products. Email messages are widely used by attackers to deliver dangerous content to a victim, such as attachments or links to malicious websites. “Existing email analysis solutions only analyze specific email elements using rule-based methods, and don’t analyze other important parts,” says Dr. Nir

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Dance, carvings, geysers high points of Maori village

Editor’s Note: This is the 20th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

Suicide’s memoir indicts the Gur sect of Hassidim

Doing His Will (Osah Kirtzono) by Esti Weinstein, published in Hebrew by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir, 2016. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson  JERUSALEM –The poor woman who wrote this book (and eventually committed suicide) was born into a specific sect, tantamount to a cult, of ultra-Orthodox Judaism known as the Gur Hassidim As a child and teenager the author

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish Religion, Middle East

IDF participates in numerous multi- lateral exercises

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israel and the Iroquois Nation came together this week — In Israel — at the Lacrosse World Championship. The Iroquois Nation team was subjected to enormous pressure to boycott, but they steadfastly refused to be swayed. The Iroquois, who invented Lacrosse in about 1100 CE, know a thing or two

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 18, 2018 (5 items)

American Jewish Committee disappointed in Israel’s new ‘Nation-State’ Law The American Jewish Committee (AJC) describes itself as “deeply disappointed” that the Israeli Knesset, with the active support of Prime Minister Netanyahu, adopted Wednesday the controversial nation-state bill. The measure passed the 120-member Knesset by a vote of 62 to 55, with two abstaining. It will

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

OpEd: ‘Never Again’ should be reserved for Holocaust

By Dov Marhoffer I am a Holocaust concentration camp survivor. I am one of a rapidly dwindling number of eyewitnesses to the Nazi Holocaust, the most systematic genocide of all time. I regularly speak at high schools, universities, and community events, sharing my eyewitness account with newer generations of Americans who have no concept of

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International, Jewish History, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 17, 2018 (4 items)

COPS seeks environmental groups’ denunciation of Gaza eco-terrorism Arthur Stark, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations issued the following statement on Tuesday: “Throughout the past 100 days Hamas launched countless flammable materials and explosives via kites, balloons, and other devices into Israeli territory. Hamas

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International, Middle East, USA

Editor’s personal blog: Declining language, politics

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Perhaps I am becoming my own grandfather, a gentle architect born in the 19th century who prided himself on being a proper and decorous man.  Recently, I wrote a column decrying the bitter partisanship that divides Washington, D.C., and which sadly is exemplified by the rancorous way that

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, USA