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Jewish Fulbright scholar teaches English in Taiwan

August 27, 2015

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — If there’s a Jewish story everywhere, as the motto of this publication puts it, there are some good Jewish stories in Taiwan, too, as I’ve reported over the past few years, from Professor Chiang, the Yiddish specialist at Wenzao University, to an annual Passover seder held in a small hotel dining room […]

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I-8 Jewish Travel: S.D. Family History Center

August 27, 2015

-19th in a Series- Exit 8, Fairmount Avenue, San Diego — San Diego Family History Center By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It may seem strange that a series focusing on “Jewish stories” along the Interstate 8 would direct you to a facility operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but if it’s

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Positively Israel ~ August 26, 2015

August 26, 2015

By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — When I return to Israel from overseas trips I always marvel how fresh and exciting the discoveries and innovations that I collect from the Israeli news are. But last week, even I couldn’t anticipate the vast number of astonishing stories recently reported in the Jewish State. In the operating

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

UC weighs anti- Semitism definition

August 25, 2015

By R. Amy Elman/JNS.org KALAMAZOO, Michigan — As the 10-campus University of California system considers the adoption of the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, there are critics who seek to discredit the entire definition with three fictions presented as fact. Groups like Palestine Legal and Jewish Voice for Peace, who actively support campus activities the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The joy of kosher sex

August 9, 2015

By Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — In the words of one sexually frustrated husband, “My wife doesn’t. Understand me?” For so many years, the jokes about Judaism and sex – together with Jewish illiteracy — have so misled generations, that too many of today’s young Jewish couples simply do not understand the true joy

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education

School Sup’t Marten: ‘Every child has a gift’

August 6, 2015

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org SAN DIEGO — Cindy Marten respects private educational institutions in the Jewish community and elsewhere, but at the very least, she believes that Jewish parents should give public school a chance. The superintendent of San Diego Unified School District—California’a second-largest school district and the eighth-largest in the country, serving 109,785 enrolled

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Jacob Kamaras, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Positively Israel ~ July 22, 2015

July 22, 2015

Israel Goes Nuclear By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — In contrast to Iran’s destructive ambitions and manipulative nuclear activities, Israelis are working from the microscopic to the atomic level, in order to develop vital medical treatments and life-enhancing technology. Israeli scientists are working with international organizations to eradicate cancer at the cellular level. One Israeli

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

Oh, so that’s what my friends look like

July 17, 2015

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — The shuttle car drops me off in front of the Shiley Eye Institute, part of UCSD Healthcare. I’m getting a clouded, natural lens removed and a clear, acrylic one put in. Even though cataract surgery is one of the most common procedures in the aging population and

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Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education

Why manage what you can prevent?

July 11, 2015

By Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — When did leaders in workplace wellness become hoodwinked and duped into thinking managing something is better than preventing it? I guess they believe buying ambulances, paying for emergency room services, expensive tests, medications, and aftercare trumps a fence. I’ll explain with a story about a little village in

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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education

House approves medical research fund

July 10, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-Californai ) voted for the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6) to provide nearly $9 billion in mandatory funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to encourage biomedical innovation and research into new treatments and cures. The House approved H.R. 6 on a strong bipartisan vote of

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

House barely passes ‘Student Success Act’

July 8, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-California) opposed the Republicans’ bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. She said that “the so-called Student Success Act (H.R. 5), which passed 218-213 on Wednesday, July 8, ends oversight of federal tax dollars spent on education, gives up on our nation’s neediest students, and

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Special IDF unit will focus on Arab medical needs

July 8, 2015

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reserves company has recently been designated to exclusively provide humanitarian care and medical assistance to Palestinians. The particular company is comprised of medics, nurses and doctors who are trained to provide quality medical care and are able to function like a civilian hospital staff

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Defining campus anti- Semitism

July 6, 2015

By Kenneth L. Marcus/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — Does it matter how we define our words? Sometimes it does. The U.S. Department of Education understands this point, as do the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Universities need to learn it, too. Last year, the Education Department paid CDC to develop a uniform definition of

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Gaining Jewish perspective at Epcot

June 30, 2015

Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor Masori ORLANDO, Florida — Sometimes it is good to go to a place like Epcot at Disney World to regain a sense of perspective about our fellow Jews and Israel. We may feel, sometimes, that our narrative provides the text, or at least a major sub-text, for

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