Science, Medicine, & Education

SWU assails college’s bias against pro-Israel group

Editor’s Note: Following is a letter written by Roz Rothstein, StandWithUs co-founder and CEO and Yael Lerman, Director StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department to the top administrators of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.. By Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES — We write on behalf of StandWithUs (SWU), an international, non-profit, Israel education organization. We are alarmed and

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Visiting israeli professor shares tears with her class

By Ronit Weiss Berkowitz Translated from Hebrew SAN DIEGO —  I am still emotionally overwhelmed by the powerful experience I had recently in class. I apologize for writing in Hebrew, it comes to me faster and I do not want those moments to slip away. I planned to talk to the students briefly about the

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Students worry about apathy about Poway shootings

By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California —  At the last minute on the afternoon of  Wednesday, May 1, I received an invitation from Genine, my vivacious friend, to  attend a program at the Hive.  I had  a long day of activities, and was ready to relax after dinner, but since the Leichtag campus is

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Muslim benefactor finances mosque security system

AUSTIN, Texas (Press Release) — Athena Security and Al-Ameri International Trading announced today the “Keep Mosques Safe” initiative (KMS). Al-Ameri International Trading, along with recognized Islamic charities and foundations, will finance the installation of Athena’s A.I.-powered gun and weapons detection platform in mosques around the world. The first mosque to benefit will be Al-Noor in

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Chicago inks pact with Peres Peace Center

  CHICAGO (Press release) — The City of Chicago and the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation entered into a memorandum of cooperation on April 15th to foster stronger collaboration, particularly with respect to technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It is the first such international partnership for the Peres Center. “Shimon Peres believed in the transformative

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Tackling climate change with a comic zest for life

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Getting a PhD in physics from Oxford University wasn’t enough for a British YouTuber known as @ClimateAdam. Worried about the future impacts of runaway global warming, but full of hope and optimism that humans can find ways to stop climate change before it gets unstoppable, he decided to

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share

Protecting veterans from rip-off for-profit colleges

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – Four Democratic members of Congress agreed Wednesday that the Trump Administration – particularly the Departments of Education and Veterans Affairs – must do more to protect veterans from the predatory practices of some for-profit colleges and technical schools. A hearing co-chaired by U.S. Reps. Susan Davis and

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Whither goest students of the bard?

  By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — On the first Seder night, I hung in there through the Fourth Cup and Chad Gadya.  Then I was up bright and early the next morning for the 2019 Student Shakespeare Festival compliments of the San Diego Shakespeare Society. Both the society and the festival were the brainchild

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

UMass urged to withdraw as anti- Israel rally sponsor

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) — Eighty organizations that span the political spectrum today called on University of Massachusetts Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy to rescind all named university sponsorship of an upcoming political event that the groups are concerned will “incite animosity towards supporters of Israel, including Jewish and pro-Israel students on your campus.” They also

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Israeli history/ poli sci prof lectures May 15

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Prof. Luba Levin-Banchik, visiting Israeli scholar in residence at San Diego State University, will address the 6 p.m. dinner buffet meeting of the Beth Israel Men’s Club which begins at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 15, at 9001 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego. Levin-Bianchik teaches courses in history and political

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

UC Santa Barbara, Cornell reject BDS efforts

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs congratulates students at UC Santa Barbara and at Cornell Univrsity for defeating discriminatory divestment resolutions on April 11. The Associated Students of UC Santa Barbara (ASUCSB) rejected the legislation with a vote of 10 in favor, 14 against, and 0 abstaining. At Cornell, the Student Assembly rejected the legislation

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Holocaust artist recalled as Beresheet nears moon

Bulletin: Beresheet crashes on moon’s surface By Adam Henderson JERUSALEM — Marking the highly anticipated landing on the moon by the Beresheet spacecraft Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, reflects upon the drawing “Moon Landscape”, created by 14-year old Petr Ginz while he was incarcerated in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Beresheet’s lunar landing will make

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