Story and Photos by Donald H. Harrison Additional Photos by Bob Lauritzen SAN DIEGO –Quite a bit of information overlaps in the exhibits on San Diego’s water supply, conservation, and runoff at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and the San Diego Museum of Natural History, two museums that face each other in Balboa
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
U.S. Secretary of State condemns Iran missile launch Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo issued the following statement on Tuesday: “In continued defiance of the international community and UN Security Council Resolution 2231, the Iranian regime fired off a space launch vehicle today. Such vehicles incorporate technologies that are virtually identical and interchangeable with those
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFinding the Right School in the Era of BDS and Intersectionality: A Jewish Parents’ Guide to Colleges 2018-19 Academic Year by Jerome Ostrov, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform © 2018, ISBN 978-1721925872, p. 429 plus appendices, $18.95. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – The letters BDS, an acronym for the words boycott, divestment, and sanctions, is a
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Sponsored by the Sheila and Jeffrey Lipinsky Family Fund, young California playwrights entered their original writing for consideration in an annual contest. This year there were 415 submissions from which to choose, and a cohort of judges and script evaluators read works written by authors under 19 years of
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I am 92 and had recently noticed that I was getting a little short of breath just walking the hallways. I had not seen a cardiologist in years, so I decided to check things out—the question always being: Is it a normal age-related symptom or something else?
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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin congratulates United Hatzalah “The Talmud teaches us that saving one life is as if a person saved the entire world. You save the lives of children, men, and women, 24-hours-a-day and 365 days a year,” President Reuven Rivlin told a contingent of United Hatzalah emergency responders. “You are called United Hatzalah,
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
$1 million Genesis Prize awarded to Robert Kraft; who dedicates money to fight anti-Semitism Robert Kraft, American philanthropist and owner of the New England Patriots football team, has been named the 2019 Genesis Prize Laureate. The annual $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed the “Jewish Nobel” by Time Magazine, honors extraordinary individuals for their outstanding professional
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International, Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USA
Milstein Family Foundation offers $16,000 for best student idea to promote Israel Seniors in high school and college students have been challenged by the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation to devise an “out-of-the-box, pro-Israel initiative on campus and beyond — be it showing positive aspects of Israel, strengthening the U.S.-Israel alliance, or fighting anti-Israel
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Hebrew University distances itself from remarks of anti-IDF professor Five days following the incident in which a Hebrew University professor, Dr. Carola Hilfrich, scolded a student for wearing her IDF uniform to class, the university published a rare ad calling on students in uniform to come study at the university. “Students in Uniform? Welcome!” read
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA report by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) In December BDS continued to be a prominent political and campus issue, fully integrated into larger questions of antisemitism, free speech, and the nature of the university. At Temple University faculty member Marc Lamont Hill was fired from a job as a CNN commentator
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Four boys’ names from Hebrew Bible make San Diego County’s top 10 in 2018 Four names from the Hebrew Bible made the top 10 for boys born in San Diego County during 2018, according to records on file with the county Health and Human Services Agency. These were Noah in second place with 202 instances,
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAU.S. State Department supports Israel’s military action against Iranian forces in Syria The U.S. State Department issued the following statement on Thursday: “The United States fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Iranian regional actions that endanger Israeli national security and the safety of the Israeli people. Iranian support of and supply to terrorist
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — The pushke in my grandma’s kitchen, blue and white, with Hebrew lettering, sat in the corner of the counter. It was not remarkable; I saw the same one or similar ones in the houses of most of my relatives. In those days, in the infancy of the State of
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Knesset passes law forbidding convicted terrorists from being released from prison early The Knesset passed a law on Tuesday night that will prevent the early release of convicted terrorists serving sentences in prison. The legislation, proposed by MKs Anat Berko (Likud) and Oded Forer (Yisrael Beiteinu), will deny terrorists the ability to be released after
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA