Tucked into a corner of physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed’s otherwise very cerebral-looking office is a computer with the ’90s TV show, “Twin Peaks,” paused midscene. The cult classic is constantly on in the background as Arkani-Hamed works on physics problems at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey. “I find watching it inspiring because, there, […]
This Jewish nurse wasn’t about to let religion get in the way of a baby boy’s livelihood. The baby’s mother was injured in a head-on car collision in Jerusalem on Friday, while the father was killed instantly. The boy, Yaman Abu Ramila, was then taken to the hospital by paramedics for his lighter injuries. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px”
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Freud: An Intellectual Biography by Joel Whitebook; Cambridge University Press (c) 2017; 496 pages. By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — When Don Harrison asked if I’d review a new book about Schlomo Sigismund Freud, known to most as Sigmund Freud, I gladly accepted the opportunity. Why? I’m not sure. Not that I’d spend
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ken Stone Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Lichtblau, author of an exposé of the Nazi era’s shameful American aftermath, is worried what a future historian might say about today’s War on Terror. With James Risen, Eric Lichtblau won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for revealing
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Even changes in the organization’s top leadership doesn’t dampen the feeling among Hillel of San Diego’s board of directors that this coming fiscal year will be one of tremendous momentum, in which some very notable recent accomplishments will be carried forward. At the organization’s annual meeting, held Wednesday
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationAstronomers scanning the skies with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the bending of one star’s light by another star’s gravity — and have even used that distortion to measure a star’s mass. The findings, published in the journal Science, confirm a key tenet of Albert Einstein’s theories even as they offer a new tool
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The July 29 “Striking A Chord” Benefit Concert was conceived by local Carmel Valley resident Megan Spector after her Aunt Marjie Block was diagnosed with ALS. Currently there is no cure for this disease, and the life expectancy of patients is tragically short, typically 2-5 years from diagnosis. Megan’s
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Peter Pan, whose silhouette along with those of other storybook characters provided a backdrop at the New Children’s Museum for speakers at the Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School gala dinner, famously declared that he wanted never to grow up. That being impossible, speakers who extolled community philanthropist
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationUri Pilichowski “My parents, teachers and community lied to me. They didn’t tell me the truth about Israelis and the Palestinians.” This is a scene repeating itself all too often on college campuses across the United States. Students we’ve spent years educating and invested tens of thousands of dollars in are arriving on college campuses
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAChildren can already be overwhelmed and bullied in the real world, but maybe the internet can offer some solace. That’s what this dad created when he built an entire Minecraft server for children with autism. Stuart Duncan, also known by his online alias AutismDad, created Autcraft: a server that has garnered over 8,000 players since
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — Almost every day, we hear and read news about verbal and even physical attacks of Jewish students on college campuses. In many instances, it makes their lives on campuses very difficult and even dangerous. Some Jewish leaders and organizations have reacted in the following ways: appealing to authorities; appealing
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Arkady Mamaysky, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABERKELEY, Calif. — University of California, Berkeley has fired an assistant professor for sexually harassing four students. Blake Wentworth, who taught in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, was found to have violated the school’s faculty code of conduct and its sexual harassment policy, the school said. The firing, effective immediately, apparently ends
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASHA’AR BINYAMIN, Israel (Press Release) – This Thursday, the One Israel Fund held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Binyamin Medical Center (BMC), the first major medical facility in Samaria. The BMC will address an unmet need for medical care for the more 75,000 Israelis living in 45 communities in the Binyamin region, and for tens of
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By Darren Schwartz SAN DIEGO — I am a 37 year-old married father of two. I am a native San Diegan having grown up on the coast and now raising a family in East County. Other than a three-year stint as a legislative aide in Sacramento, I have served as a Jewish communal professional for almost
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