By Raphael Poch JERUSALEM- When you meet an everyday person who does something incredible, it can take your breath away. Ronen and his wife Neomie are two such people. Both volunteer as EMTs for Israel’s national volunteer EMS organization, United Hatzalah, and they collaborate to make their volunteering as well as their personal lives work […]
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By Edward Zeiden BURBANK, California — “I changed my password everywhere to ‘incorrect.’ That way when I forget it, it always reminds me, ‘your password is incorrect.’” As funny as this is, people actually come up with equally ineffective passwords that are among the most used and easily guessed like “password”, “123456”, or “Star Wars.” To
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The Secret Code Menace by Pamela Cosman; Ransom Publishing Ltd; United Kingdom; (c) 2016; ISBN 978 178127 976 2; 200 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Author Pamela Cosman teaches electrical and computer engineering at the University of California San Diego. But in The Secret Code Menace, Cosman, a member of San Diego’s
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The sudden collapse of bookshelves in Yigal’s study, fortunately without injury to life or limb, set in train a course of events (new bookcases in every room) that enabled a thorough sifting-through of books and other items collected in the course of some fifty years. One of the most
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education“Israelis have to be bombed… it is wrong to maintain the State of Israel. It is an illegitimate creation” — Taher Herzallah, American Muslims for Palestine National Campus Coordinator By Max Samarov and Philippe Assouline On April 19th Jonathan Schanzer, a former US Treasury Department official, testified in Congress regarding the activities of the anti-Israel boycott movement
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) presented its inaugural Campus Courage Award to Winston Shi of Stanford University and Milan Chatterjee of UCLA. The award honors students who have demonstrated unusual courage and moral clarity in standing up to anti-Semitism and the BDS movement. “Winston Shi and Milan Chatterjee are shining examples
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAMembers of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) seeking to boycott the Jewish state as part of the discriminative BDS movement failed on Tuesday, as a boycott resolution was narrowly shot down by the organization. The resolution banning collaborations with all Israeli universities and research institutions was defeated by 2,423 votes against as opposed to 2,384
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, at its 53rd anniversary gala on Sunday evening June 5, paid tribute to the father of Shabbat San Diego, had tribute paid to its own award-winning science teacher, and announced a half-million dollar gift to kick off
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Donald H. Harrison, Marcia Tatz Wollner, Michael Mantell, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. MasoriMore than 150 professors from McGill University in Montreal have signed a declaration condemning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and praising the university”s director denunciation of it. “Boycotts and intellectual bullying have no place at McGill or at any other institution of higher learning,” the professors wrote, noting there is a disproportionate
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education(AFP) It may be the world’s most unusual anti-theft operation, set in a cave high above a desert canyon, the blue of the Dead Sea visible in the distance. Israeli authorities have been at work at the site, believed to have been used by ancient refugees, seeking to rescue important archaeological remains – possibly including
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTwo babies were hospitalized at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikva for being infected with herpes during circumcision, Kikar HaShabbat reports Wednesday night – and a prominent mohel has demanded that fellow mohels get checked for the disease before performing the ceremony. Mohel Rabbi Shlomo Mahfoud told the daily that mohels must “check themselves first
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationOleg Ivanov, a member of the diplomacy and public policy group Jewish Diplomatic Corps (JDCorps), spoke to Arutz Sheva about his organization’s struggle against the BDS boycott movement targeting Israel, and about rising anti-Semitism on college campuses. Ivanov is a student at UCLA, where the BDS movement has a particularly strong presence. He noted on
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By Raphael Poch JERUSALEM — “When I was younger, my mother collapsed in my arms. I was 19 at the time. My mother had a severe stroke right before she collapsed. I held her close. Surrounding me stood my 4 siblings, three younger sisters and my brother who was only three years old at the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationA significant majority of Stanford University students oppose the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement – despite an anti-Semitism and BDS crises that rocked the university student board earlier this year. 69% of students oppose the anti-Israel movement – including 65% of freshmen, 72% of sophomores, and 73% of juniors, the Stanford Review poll of
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