Science, Medicine, & Education

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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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Book Review: ‘Jews in Medicine’

Jews in Medicine, Contributions to Health and Healing through the Age by Ronald L. Eisenberg Jerusalem and New York: Urim Publications, 2019, 464 pages, $34.95 By Oliver B. Pollak JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — This 464-page encyclopedic reference book starts with the Talmud and comes into the present including still living practitioners. The author identifies Jewish

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Science, Medicine, & Education

80 groups protest SFSU Prof’s anti- Zionism posting

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) — Eighty organizations on Thursday wrote to California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White to alert him about San Francisco State University Professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s “hateful” posting, and to demand he take immediate action to address her “unlawful” conduct. The concerns are also being raised to CSU General Counsel Andrew

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Childhood sexual abuse sent two ‘sisters’ to mental hell

Sheol Country Blues by Adrienne O’Hare, Asna Publishing © 2019, ISBN 9780578-507248; 165 pages, $18. By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO – I met the Jewish lady whose name sounds very Irish (thanks to her marriage to the affable Larry O’Hare) in February 2018 at shipboard Shabbat services aboard the MS Maasdam, which then

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education

SDSU announces visiting Israeli faculty

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University recently announced a new slate of visiting Israeli professors who will teach at SDSU during the upcoming academic year. They include Eran Feitelson, Moshe Zonder, Shuki Ben Naim, Luba Levin-Banchik, and Gilad Shteinberg. Dr. Eran Feitelson Over the decades, Israel has

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

Young Israel sponsors ‘Health through Torah’ programs

  SAN DIEGO  (Press Release) — The World Health Organization reports that in 2019 more than 141 million children will be born: 73 million boys and 68 million girls. Based on recent mortality risks the boys will live, on average, 69.8 years and the girls 74.2 years. What’s this have to do with a synagogue-based,

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

Rep. Davis endorses Green New Deal at forum

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) surprised and mollified a restive crowd of environmentalists Saturday when she announced that when she returns to Washington for Tuesday’s congressional session she will “be signing onto the Green New Deal.” Her announcement was greeted with 16 seconds of applause, which might

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USA

Abrasive questions on Israel asked of Engel

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Rabea Ali, president of the Muslim Students Association at Manhattan College, wasted no time challenging U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel’s advocacy in a campus speech for Israel when she asked, “And how do you find it in your humanity to support Israel when it is actively committing human rights

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The hidden meanings of the Hebrew alphabet

By Zev Bar-Lev SAN DIEGO – A student, let’s call her Ida, says: “I find the Hebrew language completely opaque, as if hidden from me by a thick curtain. I’ve memorized the whole alphabet, all the shapes & their sounds, but I can’t make much out of words, much less sentences—even with a bunch of

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Wonderful advice from grandson’s peers

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO and EL CAJON, California – Thanks to my grandson Shor Masori graduating from three different schools this semester, I recently had the opportunity to listen to several remarkable young women who respectively were speakers at the ceremonies at Community Jewish High School,  Grossmont Middle College High School, and Grossmont

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori

Galinson donates $5 million for civility program

Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO  — San Diego community leader Elaine Galinson will donate $5 million to endow a new campus civility program at UC San Diego and provide for two associated classrooms. Galinson’s gift, announced by the university on Thursday, will endow the Galinson/Glickman Campus Civility Program created in partnership with the San

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education