Science, Medicine, & Education

Hoffer named as AABGU associate director

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)–American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU) has announced the appointment of Andrew Hoffer as associate director of its Southwest Region. Hoffer has nearly 20 years of experience in cultivating and securing major gifts, as well as organizing capital campaigns and special events for a broad range of education, healthcare and social service […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

San Diego Jewish schools to teach 3-D printing

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education’s (CIJE) CIJE-Tech programs in San Diego and schools nationwide will add advanced 3-D printing and software design as part of the CIJE-Tech High School Engineering Program. Soille San Diego and the San Diego Jewish Academy will both offer the CIJE-Tech program with 3-D printing. The CIJE-Tech High School Engineering Program

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

The cyber warfare in the body’s inner space

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Two years ago, Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy and Rice University’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics made the startling discovery that cancer, like an enemy hacker in cyberspace, targets the body’s communication network to inflict widespread damage on the entire system. Cancer, he found,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Suit brought against nursing homes operator

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —A law firm in Long Beach has filed a class action suit against a company that operates 57 nursing homes in California, including five facilities in San Diego County.  The lawsuit incorporated declarations from the state attorney general’s office in another case to contend that by understaffing nursing homes,

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

UC tells student helpers ‘keep advocacy out of classroom’

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– Twelve Jewish advocacy groups applaud University of California (UC) Provost Aimee Dorr and UC administrators for protecting the well-being of Jewish students. The groups wrote to UC President Janet Napolitano in August after the 83-member joint council of UAW 2865, representing all the graduate student instructors, tutors and readers at the 9 teaching

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Genocide research endowed; first fellowship awarded

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Margee and Douglas Greenberg have provided a gift to fund an endowed fellowship program at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, the newly announced research and scholarship unit of the Institute housed on the campus of the University of Southern California. The Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship is

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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

How rabies virus hijacks a body’s nervous system

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Rabies causes acute inflammation of the brain, producing psychosis and violent aggression. The virus, which paralyzes the body’s internal organs, is always deadly for those unable to obtain vaccines in time. Some 55,000 people die from rabies every year. For the first time, Tel Aviv University scientists have discovered the exact

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Swastikas at Emory University condemned

NEW YORK (Press Release)–Early Sunday morning, following the observance of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti were discovered on the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity house at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. “This is the latest in a series of incidents on American campuses which should arouse universal condemnation

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Ancient earthquake evidence at Galilee site

  HIPPOS-SUSSITA, Israel (Press Release) — Silent evidence of a large earthquake in 363 CE  — the skeleton of a woman with a dove-shaped pendant was discovered under the tiles of a collapsed roof by archeologists from the University of Haifa during this excavation season at Hippos-Sussita. They also found a large muscular marble leg

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Levin new preschool director at Temple Emanu-El

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Temple Emanu-El welcomes Tamara Levin to the staff as the new director of the Price Family Preschool. Levin spent her childhood and early adult years in Cape Town, South Africa, where she attended the University of Cape Town and then taught grades five and six. She came to America with

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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Ben-Gurion U, IDF, others join cyber security initiative

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)—BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), EMC Corporation and Jerusalem Venture Partners recently announced the CyberSpark Industry Initiative, which will serve as a coordinating body for joint cyber industry activities with government agencies, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and academia. The initiative will promote and

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Does virus caught by mom cause diabetes in fetus?

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — The incidence of type 1 childhood diabetes has been increasing rapidly worldwide. If blood sugar levels aren’t well-controlled, juvenile diabetes can affect nearly every organ of a child’s body. And while long-term complications of the disease develop gradually, they may become disabling and even life-threatening. The exact cause of juvenile

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Lowey seeks Ed. Dept. sanctions against anti- Semitism

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland), the Ranking Member on the House Appropriations Committee, has sent a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan urging him to immediately adopt standards to prevent imbalanced higher education programs with anti-Israel attitudes from receiving federal funding. Lowey’s letter to Duncan comes in response to a statement from several education and Jewish

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA