SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — On Thursday afternoon, Philip Gay, the President of the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair, called Rabbi Weiser to tell him that Matt Bessler was chosen to be this year’s San Diego Science Teacher of the Year. Bessler was chosen based on the quality of the projects submitted by […]
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin SANTA CRUZ, California –After numerous independent surveys have suggested alarming rates of anti-Semitic activity on college and university campuses across the country, AMCHA Initiative today released the first empirical study of its kind demonstrating that anti-Zionist activities, including BDS, anti-Israel student groups and faculty who endorse an academic boycott of Israel, are at the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Susan B. Tuchman, Zach Stern and Morton A. Klein NEW YORK–Campus anti-Semitism is a growing national problem and frighteningly, it has infected The City University of New York (CUNY), historically a haven for Jews and other minorities seeking an excellent, affordable college education. We work closely with students and others at CUNY and implore
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Former Skinhead Frank Meeink kept the students of San Diego’s Community Jewish High School entranced for nearly two hours Thursday evening, March 3, as he spoke of being rejected and beaten by substance-abusing parents; accepted and respected by neo-Nazis; feeling adrenaline rushes when other teenagers visibly feared
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By Yedidya Hazani KIBBUTZ HANNATON, Israel — Can hummus and soccer bridge rivalry? Can joyful music and dancing overpower political differences? Can acceptance of shared values rise out of contradictions in religion, culture, or upbringing? And, is it possible to maintain civic life, apart from political life? All these questions arise, both formally and informally,
By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON –“Anti-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How does history operate behind our backs?” For a wide range of ideological extremists, anti-Semitism is still the stupid answer for why what goes wrong with the
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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Hassan Nasrallah’s latest tirade is his threat to send missiles against an ammonia plant in Haifa. He calls it his nuclear weapon, that would produce 800,000 casualties.. This in a context of Hezbollah deeply involved in Syria, and losing thousands of its fighters. Nasrallah himself is in Iran for treatment
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts –Jews have been accused of harming and murdering non-Jews since the twelfth century in England, when Jewish convert to Catholicism, Theobald of Cambridge, mendaciously announced that European Jews ritually slaughtered Christian children each year and drank their blood during Passover season. That medieval blood libel, largely abandoned in
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By Shalle’ McDonald/JNS.org BINGHAMTON, New York — Jonathan Nizar Elkhoury wants minority populations in Israel to speak up about what life is really like in the Jewish state. He wants the world to know that Israel is a safe haven for persecuted Middle East minorities. For Elkhoury, this isn’t just loose talk. He is gay,
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-43rd in a series- Exit 14A, Grossmont Center Drive, La Mesa, California ~ La Mesa Cardiac Center By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California –Dr. Ronald Goldberg, the senior of three physicians at the La Mesa Cardiac Center on the campus of Sharp Grossmont Hospital, tells of a woman who periodically and for no apparent
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodThe Singing Abortionist directed by Dana Bratt; Canada; © 2014; 60 minutes; English; Documentary. To be shown during the San Diego Jewish Film Festival at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 7 at Edward San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Blvd., San Marcos, and at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 9, at the Reading Cinemas 14,
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — According to the Torah, physical and emotional healing are ultimately in the hands of God: “If you heed the Lord your God diligently, doing what is upright in His sight, giving ear to His commandments and keeping all His laws, then I will not bring upon you any
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Those who believe that continuing wars with Arabs and a series of disgraced Israeli politicians have snuffed out Israeli idealism haven’t yet visited Hannaton, a kibbutz in the Galilee whose leaders believe that, by example, they can help to build a multi-cultural, egalitarian, Jewish society living in friendship
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Fifth graders at the Benjamin Franklin STEAM Magnet Elementary School on Monday, Feb. 1, helped to explain to the news media how a low-tech Israeli invention will help their school conserve rainwater, and may prove to be an important tool in California’s fight against periodic droughts. STEAM is
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