BERKELEY, California (Press Release)–Ori Herschmann, a member of the Associated Students of University of California Senate, recently proposed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. It was adopted on a 20-0 vote by his colleagues. In a news release, Herschman told what led up to his proposing the measure. “As a brother of AEPi, I saw the horrible […]
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USALA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — “One of the real shortcomings for children in communities like City Heights and other areas is the lack of opportunity to have exposure to cultural institutions as well as museums and science resources,” said Robert E. Price, who with his wife Allison leads Price Philanthropies, a private family foundation.
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Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Tel Aviv University (TAU) has announced a $10 million donation from philanthropist and Academy Award-winning film producer Steve Tisch that will transform the university’s world-renowned Department of Film and Television. The donation comes amidst a boom in the Israeli film and television industry driven by creative visionaries, including a disproportionate number
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel –The festival of Purim celebrates a series of remarkable events over 2500 years ago when the exiled Jewish people were delivered from annihilation. Having returned home, the Jewish State is now delivering astonishing life-enhancing treatments, products, services and technologies to far-flung regions of the world. Israel has recently been reaching
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Do you work in customer services? If you do, it is better to express your positive interpersonal feelings naturally. Suppressing the benevolent interpersonal emotions of employees for customers has a negative impact on customer satisfaction, as indicated for the first time in a new study conducted by Prof. Dana Yagil of the
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SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) — The San Francisco-based Jim Joseph Foundation announced grant awards from its two winter board meetings totaling nearly $24 million to organizations and institutions engaged in Jewish education. The Foundation focuses on creating effective and compelling Jewish learning experiences for youth and young adults in the United States. “These two rounds of grant
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A fight is brewing at Mt. San Jacinto College in Riverside County over a proposed speech on May 13 by Miko Peled, the anti-Israel activist whose late father, Matti Peled, was an Israeli general who became part of the peace camp. As first reported by The Israel Group,
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan – In the usual way I meet most people these days, I met Elizabeth (Berg ) Trobaugh the other day via an email she sent me from her office in western Massachusetts where she is a professor of English at Holyoke Community College. Her email arrived out of the
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NEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) mourns the passing of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, one of the most influential American Catholic leaders of our time, who died Feb. 26 at the age of 97. He distinguished himself as a renowned educator and spiritual leader, as a staunch defender of civil rights and
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) – StandWithUs initiated the following letter to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block in reaction to an incident in which a candidate for the UCLA Judicial Board was asked if being Jewish presented her with a conflict of interest. The questioners later apologized, but the 12 organizations below seek additional measures. February 20,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — As the former director of the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University for 18 years and holder of the Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History there for 24 years, I was outraged by the Horowitz Center designation of SDSU as one of the top ten anti-Semitic universities in the United States.
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Lawrence Baron, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release)– It’s a fact: Women are vastly underrepresented in the fields of computer science, engineering, and mathematics. But less clear are the trajectories — academic and otherwise — that lead young women toward other professions. Higher education has already opened the door to equal opportunities for women and minorities in the U.S. —
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA (Press Release)–As part of the first cooperative venture of its kind between the University of Haifa and the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) Institute, a festive cornerstone laying ceremony was held launching the construction of the deep sea research labs for the Harry and Leona Helmsley Mediterranean Sea Research Center at the University
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – How do you teach about the Holocaust to young people, whom, on the one hand we’d like to protect from learning how brutal the world can be, and whom, on the other hand, we know have to be prepared to live in a world where once again
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