Science, Medicine, & Education

Muslim group condemns vandalism at AEPi

SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release)– The Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) on Monday, Feb. 2, expressed the Muslim community’s solidarity with the Jewish community following hate vandalism of a UC Davis Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, which was painted with Nazi swastikas Saturday. In a statement, CAIR-Sacramento Valley Executive Director Basim

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Yachad, Jewish council for disabilities, turns 30

NEW YORK (Press Release)– Yachad, the National Jewish Council for Disabilities, dedicated to inclusion for all Jewish children and adults, is celebrating 30 years of service to local, regional and international communities.  Yachad, which, translated from Hebrew, means “together,” offers those with special needs a way to participate in events and programs which help weave them

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The Jewish Citizen: A profile of Bernie Rhinerson

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—If one quality seems to characterize Bernie Rhinerson, a member of the San Diego Community College board, it is an openness to well-thought-out change. After marrying Bobbie Herdes, whom he met while both were students at the University of Wisconsin, Rhinerson, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, read Mixed

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

ZOA protests fundraiser for terrorist at DePaul

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America has urged the president of DePaul University to protest a planned fundraiser sponsored by the Students for Justice in Palestine organization in support of Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted for terrorism in Israel and for immigration fraud in the United States. A copy of the letter follows:

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Netanyahu visits wounded IDF soldiers

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister, Moshe (Boogie) Ya’alon traveled on Friday to Rambam Health Care Campus to visit the two soldiers injured in a blast two days ago near the Har Dov border. The soldiers are in stable condition. The Prime Minister and Defense Minister thanked the soldiers for their service

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jewish ethics through the medium of animation

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School and the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture teamed up Thursday  evening, Jan. 29, to teach Jewish ethics. Not to the students of the Orthodox day school; the 7th and 8th graders had already had their opportunity to chew on this

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Charting academia’s movement to isolate Israel

By Roberta P. Seid/JNS.org While the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has officially hit America’s scholarly associations over the last two years, even considering academic boycotts is a dramatic rupture with the past. In 2005, the prestigious American Association of University Professors (AAUP) wrote that it “condemned any such boycotts as prima facie

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Community colleges parlay in Sacramento

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Bernie Rhinerson, a member of the San Diego Community College Board, attended a legislative conference in Sacramento last weekend in his capacity as chair of the Community Colleges League of California’s advisory committee on legislation. He moderated a Town Hall meeting with Senator Marty Block (D-San Diego)

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

New weapon against antibiotic – resistant bacteria

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Antibiotic-resistant infections are on the rise, foiling efforts to reduce death rates in developing countries where uncontrolled use of antibiotics and poor sanitation run amok. The epidemic of “superbugs,” bacteria resistant to antibiotics, knows no borders — presenting a clear and present danger around the globe. A groundbreaking discovery from Tel

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Rooftop synergy: green plots and solar panels

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — There’s plenty of cold weather still to come, but the University of Haifa is preparing for the sun, with a new study that examines whether solar electricity panels and green roofs can work well in tandem. The Kadas Green Roofs Ecology Research Center, headed by Prof. Leon Blaustein, researches the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Forecasters take note: land use changes affect weather

TEL AVIV (Press Release)—The night before the Israel Defense Forces’ 1976 mission rescuing over 200 hostages from hijackers in Entebbe, Uganda, Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Pinhas Alpert, then head of an Israel Air Force base forecasting unit, provided intelligence that was critical to the success of the operation — the weather conditions commandos were likely

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Positively Israel ~ January 23, 2015

By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — The Hebrew word “beyachad” (together) typifies the Israeli approach to innovating a better world. Israel and the US continue to move closer together economically. The Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation recently approved $8.3 million in new funding for 11 projects where US and Israeli companies are

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