By Michal Ordman NETANYA, Israel — I usually publicize the positive achievements of the Jewish State. This week, however, I want to illustrate that much of Israel’s work also goes into counteracting the negative side of life in the modern world. Disease prevention is a top priority of Israeli medical research. Israel’s Avraham Pharmaceuticals has
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Soille Hebrew Day School already boasts an award winning science program, with its students winning more awards at the County-wide Fair each year than any other K-8 private school. New for this school year is an engineering and design program which has been created by the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Donald H. Harrison MORAGA, California –Prof. Barbara McGraw of Saint Mary’s College of California likes to tell of an interfaith conference she attended at which delegates representing a wide spectrum of religious beliefs all were in attendance. As was the custom at such gatherings, people in the audience asking questions first would identify
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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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-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 FoodBy 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
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, USABy 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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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, & EducationIsrael 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, & EducationBy 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, & EducationBy 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, & EducationWASHINGTON, 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, USAWASHINGTON, 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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