Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 27, 2018 (10 Items)

Poland revises its law on Holocaust responsibility The American Jewish Committee has welcomed the action by the Polish Parliament to remove the criminal penalties provision of the country’s controversial Holocaust responsibility law. “As long-time friends of Poland, correcting this counterproductive measure is an important step to restore confidence and advance ties among Poland, the Jewish

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Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 26, 2018 (5 Items)

Supreme Court’s 5-4 ‘Travel Ban’ decision saw Jewish justices in the minority In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s Executive Order Number One which the administration describes as a ban of travel from countries which have insufficient vetting procedures against terrorists, and which opponents describe as a “Muslim ban,” as most

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Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 25, 2018 (4 Items)

Israeli Reserve Duty to Earn Academic Credits The Knesset on Monday passed in its third and final reading a law that will provide two academic credits to students who serve a minimum of 14 annual days of reserve duty. The measure was a initiated by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), MK Meirav Ben-Ari (Kulanu),

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

“Dr. Bob” Shillman receives Technion’s honorary PhD

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) Dr. Robert J. Shillman (known as “Doctor Bob”) of Rancho Santa Fe, California, is so beloved at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology that there is a bronze statue of him on a bench petting a stray cat. He befriended and subsequently adopted “Yitz” during a summer at the Technion nearly 50

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

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 20, 2018 (5 items)

SAN DIEGO — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at editor@sdjewishworld.com on Wednesday, June 20. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. Tel Aviv University researchers perfect Archimedes Laser

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

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 19, 2018 (3 Items)

SAN DIEGO — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at editor@sdjewishworld.com on Tuesday, June 19. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. Bernie Sanders blasts family separations at border

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Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 18, 2018 (6 Items)

SAN DIEGO — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at editor@sdjewishworld.com on Monday, June 18. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. * American Israel Public Affairs Committee pleased

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Taliah bravely confronts CHARGE Syndrome

  Editor’s Note:  The following story is republished from the Member Spotlight section of the Summer 2018 edition of Beth Israel Quarterly, published by Congregation Beth Israel of San Diego. By Janice Alper SAN DIEGO — Team Taliah started several years ago when Taliah Wendoll joined in the Rady Children’s Walk at SeaWorld. Taliah is the captain

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 14, 2018 (6 Items)

SAN DIEGO  — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at editor@sdjewishworld.com on Thursday, June 14. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. Even when fasting for Ramadan, Muslim volunteers

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

Rambam Health Center drills for a missile attack

HAIFA, Israel  (Press Release)– An emergency drill was conducted Thursday at Rambam Health Care Campus with the scenario of a missile attack on the Haifa area, forcing the only referral hospital in the north to transfer operations to the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. This unique facility, the largest of its kind in the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Rav Adin Steinsaltz honored in Jerusalem for life’s work

  By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM — Once in a generation – if we’re lucky – do we witness the creation of a project so expansive, so extraordinary, that it revolutionizes Jewish scholarship for hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions — of people, and for future generations. Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz is perhaps best known for

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Toby Klein Greenwald

Bruins file complaints against anti- Israel disrupters

By Edwin Black LOS ANGELES — Criminal complaints are now being filed by students following the belligerent disruption of a May 17 Students Supporting Israel [SSI] event at University of California Los Angeles. At least a half-dozen students announced they would visit the UCLA police department to file formal complaints reporting criminal disruption of a

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 13, 2018 (5 Items)

SAN DIEGO  — Following are some of the stories of Jewish interest that hit our editor’s computer mail box at editor@sdjewishworld.com on Wednesday, June 13. We are interested in local, national, and international news of Jewish interest, and welcome comments from members of the Jewish community about these news items. 92-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor makes Aliyah from New

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rabbi Caine leaving Poway for Ann Arbor, Michigan

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Nadav Caine and family are now packing up their belongings as he gets ready to assume a new pulpit in Ann Arbor, Michigan, beginning July 1. Caine, 51, had been with Congregation Ner Tamid in suburban Poway for 12 years, starting with the Conservative congregation during the

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