USA

Mother who survived death says trust your premonitions

By Janice McCafferty CHICAGO — After seven rounds of intense and emotional IVF procedures, Stephanie Arnold became pregnant with her second child in October of 2012. All was fine until her 20th week ultrasound. Stephanie became overwhelmed with premonitions of her own death. She best explains this feeling as something that made every cell in […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Deutch back bill for Venezuelan human rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed H.R. 4587, the Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act. Co-introduced by Chairman Emeritus Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-21), Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-5), Rep. Albio Sires (NJ-8), Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-9), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), Rep. Corrine Brown (FL-5), Rep. Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Rep.

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International, USA

Cohen bill would promote pre-natal care

WASHINGTON, DC  (Press Release)– With Mother’s Day approaching on Sunday, May 11th, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Friday, May 9, reintroduced legislation he first authored in 2009 to reduce tragically high rates of infant mortality. The Congressman’s Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act would create a national pilot program in cities

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

San Diego Jews in the News: May 9, 2014

Editor’s Note:  This is a new column about newsworthy members of San Diego County’s Jewish community.  We’ll draw our accounts from local print, broadcast and Internet media, adding tidbits now and then from our own store of knowledge.  The names of  people we know  are Jewish community members will appear in boldface type. SAN DIEGO – Two Jewish

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Congress celebrates likely prospect of awarding Israel’s President Shimon Peres the Congressional Gold Medal

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Dozens of Congressmen, Senators and Jewish community leaders gathered on Wednesday, May 7, to celebrate the Jewish American Heritage Month in the ornate LBJ Room of the US Capitol. The annual event, organized by The Friedlander group, highlighted the work of 5 individuals who were chosen as honorees for their

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Middle East, USA

Education research bill includes social, emotional learning

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday evening, March 8 passed bipartisan legislation – Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366) – to improve research on education programs and ensure those programs are effective in meeting national education priorities. H.R. 4366 includes language from a bill carried by U.S. Rep.

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Indyk, still optimistic, tells why Mideast peace talks failed

Editor’s Note: Ambassador Martin Indyk, special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiatons, addressed the Washington Institute’s Weinberg Connferece in Washington D.C. The U.S. State Department provided the following transcript of his remarks. By Martin Indyk Last July, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry launched a vigorous effort to reach a final status agreement between Israelis

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Middle East, USA