PALM BEACH, Florida (Press Release) – “My son was a hero, not just on the last day of his life but throughout his life.” This is how Linda Schulman spoke of her son, georaphy teacher Scott Beigel, just five and a half weeks after he was murdered protecting students at the Parkland High School in
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
EIN GEV, Israel (Press Release) — Every year during Pesach, hundreds of thousands of people visit the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and Magen David Adom is preparing accordingly by strengthening the forces in the area with an MDA Jet-Ski, which will be in operation from the beginning of the Pesach vacation in the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego Jewish World likes to present a broad spectrum of opinion, and for that reason we published a column today by Michael Hayutin in which he takes issue with protesters, including those students who have been organizing marches around the country to demand serious efforts be made
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) –Following a message from a professor on San Francisco State University (SFSU) Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas’ (AMED) Facebook page calling the welcoming of pro-Israel students a ‘declaration of war,’ 60 organizations and many concerned citizens demanded an investigation. California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White and SFSU President Leslie
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
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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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
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Pigeons played an important role in turning the Byzantine Negev into a flourishing region 1,500 years ago. This is the conclusion of a new study held at the Institute of Archeology at the University of Haifa that was published Monday in the prestigious journal PlosOne. The study, which concentrated on
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy 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
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
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
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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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
By Dor Gwieta LA JOLLA, California — Natan Sharansky has been my inspiration, from his work not only as a Jewish leader, but also as an educator and a pro-Israel activist. His life story is a guidebook for me on how a Jewish community leader should act—we must manifest his ideals within the Jewish community.
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationEFRAT, 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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