Science, Medicine, & Education

Three necessary steps for telling Israel’s story

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Israel’s former consul for media affairs in New York City, Shahar Azani, is now the director for the northeastern United States for StandWithUs, meaning his responsibility is to bring a proactive, pro-Israel message to the colleges and high schools of New York, New Jersey, and the New England […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Positively Israel ~ April 13, 2016

Israeli achievements you cannot Pass Over By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — The Hebrew nation has come a long way since escaping Egyptian slavery.  Today’s oppression comes from those, such as in the BDS movement, who are still in “de-Nile” about this amazing people.  Here are some phenomenal examples from the last two weeks, that

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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

100 religious holidays merit excused absences in N.J.

By Adam Clark Displayed with permission from NJ.com TRENTON, New Jersey — The state Board of Education this week approved a list of religous  holidays in the upcoming school year on which schools must allow excused absences. The list, updated annually, includes more than 100 holidays for the 2016-17. Students celebrating those holidays must present a

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Glickman donates $5 million gift for Hillel at UCSD

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – Hillel of San Diego on Sunday, April 10, announced a $5 million gift to build its proposed Hillel Center for Jewish Life near UC San Diego. Received from Joseph “Chickie” Glickman, this donation is the lead gift in the campaign to build the Beverly & Joseph Glickman Hillel Center to serve

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

JFS receives grant for rides for breast cancer patients

SAN DIEGO (April 8, 2016) – Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded a $5,000 grant to support breast cancer patients in need by the San Diego Professionals Against Cancer (SDPAC), a group of volunteers dedicated to raising money to support local nonprofits fighting against cancer. Through its partnership with Susan G.

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

SFSU protesters crash Barkat speech

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters, calling for the liberation of Palestine “from the river to the sea,” disrupted a lecture being delivered by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at San Francisco State University on Wednesday. Carrying Palestinian flags, they called for the continuation of the current wave of violence and an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Bill would hamper sex traffic recruiting at schools

SPRING VALLEY, California (Press Release) – Flanked by representatives from the California Department of Justice, the Sheriff’s Department, the San Diego Police Department, and local advocates, U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) announced a new initiative to combat sex trafficking. Davis crafted the Empower Educators to Prevent Trafficking Act to help school districts train school

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Arab, Jewish moms segregated in some wards

Numerous maternity wards around Israel separate Jewish and Arab women, even though such a practice is completely forbidden by the Ministry of Health. Reshet B reported Tuesday morning that the hospitals in violation of Ministry instructions include Jerusalem’s Sha’arei Tzedek, Hadassah Ein Kerem and Hadassah Mount Scopus Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital and Kfar Saba’s Meir

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Positively Israel: All Will Be Revealed

By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — I was prompted into writing my first blog of 2016 by yet another appalling report on the BBC World Service The Science Hour 27/3/16.  Just after the Jewish festival of Purim, the Biased Broadcasting Corporation erased the name of Israel, Jews and Israeli companies from a program discussing the

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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

UC Regents approve new guidelines on anti- Semitism

(Editor’s Note: Comments on the UC Regents’ decision may be found below from leaders of the AMCHA Initiative, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, StandWithUs, Hillel International, and the Zionist Organization of America.) By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the Regents of the University of California (UC) for

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Campus groups stifle free speech — except theirs

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — When GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s March 11th rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion was shut down last week by hundreds of leftist protestors, comprised of activists from Moveon.org, Black Lives Matter, Muslim groups, and even unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the morally indignant protestors had

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