LONDON — “The only thing predictable about Jonah is his unpredictability,” says Ben, the narrator in Jem Lester’s debut novel “Shtum.” As he cautiously monitors Jonah, his profoundly autistic son, sitting in the back of a car Ben knows even a mere detour has the potential to cause Jonah anxiety and Ben “untold stress.” “Shtum”
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Science, Medicine, & EducationSANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – At the request of several Jewish students at Vassar College who report feeling unsafe in light of an uptick in numerous anti-Semitic incidents since February, 34 Jewish and civil rights groups today wrote to Vassar College President Catharine Hill urging her to do more to prevent anti-Semitism and protect
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWhen I met Françoise Gilot in London in 1968, she seemed impressively confident and highly articulate. Two things she said stick in my memory. One of her regular chores while living with Picasso, she recalled, was to get him out of bed every day around noon. Each time he was reluctant to begin a new
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationOne of the most prominent leaders of the so-called Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) against Israel – who ironically has been studying at Tel Aviv University for the past several years – has been denied travel documents by the Israeli interior ministry. Palestinian Arab Omar Barghouti was informed last month that the interior ministry
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — I traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan the end of last month, to be at my granddaughter, Hannah Gail Schiff’s graduation from the University of Michigan. I was pleased that she attended this institution that numbers many Jews among its faculty and student body. It also boasts one of the strongest
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Eileen Wingard, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau Researchers have sequenced the genome of the cassava – enabling them to better understand the genetic basis the plant’s disease resistance, quality and crop maturity. A research team in Kenya spent four years decoding the DNA, the genetic material, of the cassava plant,
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Responding to concerns from community members regarding the placement of and response to posters alleging connections between specific SDSU students and terrorist groups, Tammy Gillies, Regional Director of ADL’s San Diego Regional office said, “The posters placed on SDSU’s campus two weeks ago which targeted individual students because of their affiliations
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
(Editor’s Note: Chana Miller live chatted from the U.S. over the Internet with the remarkable Daniel Mizrachi in Israel.) By Chana Miller BROOKLYN, New York — We all have complaints. Some of us sit back with the attitude of ‘What can I do? If only I had such and such, then I would be able to accomplish
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Students at San Diego State University and a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) evidently feel that a strong offense is a good defense. On Wednesday, May 4, at a campus news conference reported on local television, they called for the resignation of SDSU’s President Elliot Hirshman because
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, San Diego Jewish Academy students will be spending Thursday, May 5th remembering those who perished in the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in
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Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After meeting with some of the students who blocked the campus police car in which he was a passenger for approximately two hours last week, SDSU President Elliot Hirshman, who is Jewish, and others issued a statement on Monday abhorring Islamophobia but not mentioning anti-Semitism. As reported in Tuesday’s
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAn anti-Semitism watchdog warned on Monday about a “worrisome trend” of anti-Semitic incidents at schools in the Netherlands despite an overall drop of incidents on the country’s streets. The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) reported that there were 16 incidents of anti-Semitism in Dutch schools in 2015, the highest recorded number in
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education
(Editor’s Note: Cole Spector has launched a campaign against ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Here is a speech he gave to his religious school class at Congregation Beth Israel.) By Cole Spector SAN DIEGO — Imagine –losing your ability to walk, to eat, to speak, to move and to breathe, But your brain remains fully alert.
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
A mysterious virus that has decimated tilapia fish stocks in Ecuador and Israel has finally been identified by an international team of scientists. The virus, dubbed tilapia lake virus, was long suspected to be behind mass die offs of valuable farmed tilapia in Ecuador and Israel since 2009. In a paper published in the journal
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