Science, Medicine, & Education

Tel Aviv style beach parties set for 160 U.S. campuses

NEW YORK (Press Release) –This April, millions of college students across the country will engage with a coalition of pro-Israel organizations to mark the Jewish State’s 70th birthday with Tel Aviv beach party-style celebrations at more than 160 university campuses across the U.S. and Canada including San Diego State University and UC San Diego. The […]

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

Science meets art at the Natural History Museum

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jonas Salk, the discoverer of the polio vaccine, was fond of paraphrasing the mathematician Jacob Bronowski on the possible beneficial results from an interrelationship between the sciences and the arts.  Bronowski, who became known to millions of Americans through the PBS television series The Ascent of Man, suggested

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education

Passover: An Antidote for Anxiety

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Who says our children are nervous? Just because our youngsters may have anxiety about school shootings, separating from parents, are fearful of animals or blood or heights, have panic attacks,  can’t stop touching things or thinking about things, are painfully shy, are terrified of speaking in public, or freeze

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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

San Francisco State professor wants Zionists excluded from campus; AMCHA organizes protests

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– Within hours of San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong’s public apology to Jewish students and affirmation that “Zionists are welcome on our campus,” an SFSU professor shot back with a hateful and discriminatory message targeting Jewish and Zionist students.  The message was posted on an official site of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

United Hatzalah certifies 34 women to serve Haredim

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Thirty four Haredi Women graduated a United Hatzalah EMT course on Thursday, joining the Women’s Unit of the organization. The newly trained EMTs will be tasked with providing emergency medical care as first responders to women in the Haredi communities of Jerusalem and the surrounding area. Director of United Hatzalah’s Women’s

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

$11,000 in grants encourage arts in schools

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Fourteen teachers from the San Diego Unified School District have been awarded a combined $11,000 in grants to pursue artistic projects with their students thanks to the new non-profit VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) Foundation. The newly established Foundation awarded teacher grants ranging from $500 to $2,500 during this inaugural

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Israeli doctors save lives of Syrian mother, child

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) –After two weeks hospitalization in Rambam’s maternity ward, a young woman returned home March 7, somewhere in embattled Syria, determined and happy.  Two weeks ago, doctors had offered a grim choice – to die at her son’s imminent birth, or to let her son die. After examining the ultrasound results of

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Orthodox network sends emissaries to San Diego

EFRAT, Israel  — Two years ago, Rabbi Gideon Osher Shmueli donated a kidney to a stranger, saving that individual’s life. These days, he works at Magen David Yeshivah in Brooklyn, N.Y., teaching Hebrew and bringing with that teaching the culture and values of Judaism and eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel. To him, teaching about Judaism

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International, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Trump Bans CDC From Using These Seven Words

Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly banned the Center for Disease Control from using seven words and phrases, including “science-based” and “transgender,” in documents it is working on for next year’s budget. In an astounding move, officials at the CDC were told in a Thursday meeting they were not to use certain words, a policy analyst

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA