Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 4, 2018 (4 items)

National broadcast planned of concert for Tree of Life Synagogue massacre victims PBS will broadcast nationally WQED’s locally-produced Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity, a free community event, presented and hosted by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to honor the Tree of Life Synagogue victims and first responders. The performance, featuring Itzhak Perlman at Pittsburgh’s Heinz

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 30, 2018 (5 items)

American Jewish Committee  opens global religious freedom drive American Jewish Committee (AJC) has launched #8Nights4ReligiousRights, the global Jewish advocacy organization’s Hanukkah initiative in support of religious freedom around the world. The eight-day Hanukah holiday, which begins Sunday evening with the lighting of the first candle in the menorah, celebrates the restoration of Jewish religious freedom

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International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Epsteins donate $1 million to UC San Diego

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Daniel and Phyllis Epstein’s move to La Jolla in 1986 started them on a path to becoming loyal advocates and supporters for their neighbor, the University of California San Diego. “UC San Diego is so important to the community, including contributing to the regional economy and producing talent for our

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 29, 2018 (4 items)

Republican Jewish Coalition presses for U.S. – Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act  The Republican Jewish Coalition has reaffirmed its support for the United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act (HR 5141/S. 2497) and strongly encourages the U.S. Senate to complete action on the bill during this year’s session. Maintaining and strengthening the alliance between the U.S.

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Beth Israel Men’s Club sets climate change forum

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Robert Gilleskie, who has more than 30 years experience in energy management and power quality, including 20 years at San Diego Gas & Electric, will discuss man-made climate change at a dinner meeting of the Beth Israel Men’s Club at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 19, at the temple at 9001

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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

‘Escape the Nat’ diversifies the museum experience

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Museum of Natural History, familiarly known as “The Nat,” began attracting new visitors last July when it installed an Escape Room on its bottom floor, with the idea of inducing gamers to come to the museum.  Escape Rooms grew out of video games, only instead

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 27, 2018

Pitzer College faculty vote against Israel abroad programs draws criticism The faculty of Pitzer College, which is part of the Claremont Colleges consortium in California, on November 8 passed a motion to suspend the school’s study abroad exchange with the University of Haifa “until (a) the Israeli state ends its restrictions on entry to Israel

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Don’t panic, stay in the moment, therapist counsels

Editor’s Note: This is the 38th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the  installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 20, 2018 (3 items)

Joint Hindu- Jewish celebration held for respective festivals of lights It was standing-room only for 425 Hindus and Jews who made a bit of history celebrating both Diwali and Chanukah at the Hindu-Jewish Festival of Lights at Temple Beth-El in Northbrook, IL on November 18.  The event not only celebrated the two holidays, which occur

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 19, 2018 (4 items)

Israeli law group demands Facebook remove Hamas account Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin has placed Facebook and its Israeli branch under formal legal notice for allowing Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV to maintain Facebook and Instagram accounts. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Israel general manager Adi Soffer-Teeri, Shurat HaDin claims that Facebook’s continual support

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

This life in academia makes for pleasant reading

Holocaust Survivor to Harvard Dean: Memoirs of a Refugee’s Progress by Michael Shinagel © 2016, Xlibris, ISBN 9781524-509606; 150 pages plus Index; Available on Amazon. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —  Having served for nearly four decades as dean of the Harvard Extension School – the longest known deanship in Harvard’s history – author

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

Climate change subject of Dec. 19 CBI forum

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Robert Gilleskie, former director of engineering at the California Center for Sustainable Energy, will address the need to counter climate change in an address at the Beth Israel Men’s Club dinner meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 19, starting at 6:30 p.m., at 9001 Towne Centre Drive “Based on overwhelming evidence of

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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education