NEW YORK (Press Releae) – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) will honor one of San Diego’s top pro-Israel students at its upcoming prestigious award dinner in New York City in November. Adina Wollner, a Zionist student leader at UC San Diego, will receive the Myron Zimmerman Award for Outstanding Student Activism at this year’s
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA growing number of Jews are using psychedelics to reach spiritual highs, and you might be surprised to learn some Orthodox don’t frown upon the practice By Madison Margolin NEW YORK — Spiritual leader Ram Dass was born Richard Alpert, a nice Jewish boy from Boston. But in 1963, the former psychologist prof was expelled
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAKKO, Israel (Press Release) — The Akko Tower Wreck has been playing tricks with researchers for over 50 years. The shipwreck was discovered during the first maritime archaeological survey conducted in Israel using remote sensing technology, in 1966, and bears the distinction of being the first shipwreck identified off the coast of Israel. But the
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationMINNEAPOLIS — Vandals defaced a sign promoting the University of Minnesota’s Muslim Students Association, scrawling “ISIS” over a hand-painted mural on the Washington Avenue Bridge, which connects the east and west banks of the Twin Cities campus. The graffiti was discovered early Thursday morning and documented on social media, prompting the Minnesota chapter of the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA New York elementary school has canceled its traditional mock presidential election after kids chanted “Trump” and repeated “negative rhetoric about minorities,” according to the school principal. Children at Jericho Elementary School in Centereach will be voting for their favorite school lunch instead of their favorite presidential candidate after their mock campaign season got too
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — In recognition of a $3.5 million gift made by Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld to support the renovation and ongoing maintenance of Brown University’s Judaic Studies Building, the University has renamed the building the “Hirschfeld House.” As a focal point for Jewish life and learning at Brown, the renovations
SANTA CRUZ, California — More than 175 faculty members and 47 religious, civil rights, education and research organizations representing thousands of concerned students, parents and alumni on Tuesday Nov. 1, wrote to the top official at the University of California, UC President Janet Napolitano, demanding she stop faculty from using the classroom as a pulpit
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off on the question of abortion in the final debate. And it quickly became painfully obvious that the only person on stage, including the moderator, who knew much about women’s health was the woman. When Chris Wallace asked Clinton why she had “voted against a ban on late-term, partial-birth
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded more than $945,000 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, as part of the Administration on Agings Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative: Specialized Supportive Services (ADI-SSS) program. The funds allow JFS to fill existing service gaps and
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe University of Iowa is investigating a series of fliers criticizing “anti-white propaganda,” which were discovered near campus centers dedicated to Latino, Native American, African American and LGBTQ communities. The fliers discovered Sunday on a bulletin board in a campus residence hall “were deeply offensive to some members of our campus community,” according to UI
Brandeis survey of 50 US campuses finds one of the strongest predictors of hostile climate toward Jews, Israel is active SJP group By Times of Israel staff An image from the documentary ‘Crossing the Line 2,’ which depicts rising anti-Semitic activity on North American campuses. (Courtesy) The City University of New York in Brooklyn, Northwestern
Call it Bernie Sanders vs. Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Act Two. The Vermont senator and erstwhile presidential candidate, who has helped make prescription drug pricing a high-profile issue, sent the company a letter on Thursday asking for a plethora of data that might explain a string of “staggering” and “outrageous” price hikes for an expensive cancer treatment.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHillary Clinton defended the practice of partial-birth abortion in the final presidential debate on Wednesday, obscuring her belief that abortion should be legal at any point during a pregnancy by appealing to the “health” of the mother. Asked to defend her vote in the Senate against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, which was
I wish we lived in a world in which we didn’t have to read about or hear about or worry about the really tough stuff — like cancer, violent crime, drug and alcohol addiction, acts of hate, lying and cheating, sexual assault. Yet we do. We live in a beautiful, broken world. We are lovely,