Science, Medicine, & Education

Lawrence Krause to receive Revelle Medal from UCSD

  LA JOLLA, California (SDJW) — Retired Economics Prof. Lawrence Krause has been notified by UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla that he will be awarded the 2019 Revelle Medal during the university’s Founders Celebration on Friday, Nov. 15. Krause, who lives in retirement at Seacrest Village in Encinitas, writes a column on world affairs […]

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Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

When neurons fail to signal, ailments develop

By Irv Jacobs, MD LA JOLLA, California  — Dr. Itamar Kahn is a distinguished Israeli professor at the Technion, focused on Neuro-degenerative diseases research, at its Prince Center.  His biography is most unusual.  Interest early on, with a B.S. in computer science from Ben Gurion University, gave him an entrée into neurosurgery operating rooms, where

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Irv Jacobs, MD, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Stand With Us issues ‘action alert’ on ethnic studies

LOS ANGELES — StandWithUs, the pro-Israel group which offers intellectual debate to Israel’s campus detractors, has issued an “Action Alert” warning against a proposed school curriculum in California that supports the anti-Israel movement.   The organization issued the following notice: The State of California is currently reviewing a model Ethnic Studies curriculum, which openly promotes hateful boycotts against Israel

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

When our Sky ‘met’ Albert Einstein

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Our cousins, Harry and Sherry Jacobson-Beyer of Louisville, Kentucky, paid us a visit, bringing along their 14-year-old grandson, Ethan Jacobson, of Fairhope, Alabama.  Together, with Nancy’s and my grandson, Sky, 12, we visited the Reuben E. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. The boys went off in

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Israeli volunteers help Palestinians with medical issues

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A chance remark made by one of my fellow-pupils in the weekly German-language class I attend in my neighborhood retirees’ club aroused my curiosity. Thus I learned about the activities of a group of Israelis who have made it their mission to assist Palestinians whose children require advanced

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Therapists’ play- acting helps quarreling couple

By Irv Jacobs, M.D. SANTA FE, New Mexico — Greetings from New Mexico’s state capital, where this week I am attending the annual “Creativity and Madness” Conference by The American Institute of Medical Education, at the Santa Fe Convention Center. The theme of these conferences is largely to explore in detail the lives of high

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Irv Jacobs, MD, Science, Medicine, & Education

Rabbi in Florida enjoys learning about San Diego

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Donald H. Harrison’s book Schlepping and Schmoozing through San Diego County, Vol. 1 is enjoyable, really fun to read, as one can tell by the book’s title. He has been a journalist since 1962 and is an excellent writer. His articles are not only enjoyable, sometimes witty,

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Juvenile detainees learn new skills in Morocco

  By Anya Karaman FES, Morocco — At a juvenile detention center in Fes, it feels like summer camp all year round. There, “maximum security” is an open, white building complex; “delinquents” are watering plants and planting seeds; and the only guard in sight, if you’re lucky, is a wild peacock patrolling the grounds. For

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Looking to our area’s Jewish past — and future

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Two recent honors in my life undoubtedly will have a positive influence on the kinds of stories that will appear in San Diego Jewish World. Recently, I was elected to the presidency of the Louis Rose Society for the Preservation of Jewish History, a group interested in promoting

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A young life of mitzvot helps Brazilian tots to literacy

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Beatriz de Oliveira, 17, a senior at Torrey Pines High School, absorbed an important lesson every day from her mother, Dr. Daniela Carvalho, an otolaryngologist at Rady’s Children’s Hospital: “Do a mitzvah every day,” her mother has insisted both to her and Beatriz’s younger brother, Victor, 13. As

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