Science, Medicine, & Education

Recipients of Bronfman Fellowships announced

DELMAR, New York (Press Release)–The Bronfman Fellowships has selected its 28th cohort of high school students, among them a varsity hockey player who founded a popular prayer service at her school; a saxophonist, clarinetist and composer who has performed at Lincoln Center; an avid participant in Revolutionary War reenactments; and a budding scientist who works […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Stealth anti-Semitism in middle school

  By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — By this week, the Rialto Unified School District school board outside of Los Angeles was in full damage control, fending off universal opprobrium over a third-quarter English Language Arts argumentative writing/research project given to 2,000 eighth-graders. The breathtakingly ill-conceived assignment asked students to “read and discuss multiple,

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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

AMCHA Initiative to UC Regents: Protect Jewish students

SACRAMENTO, California  (Press Release) – Shocked at UCLA’s recent refusal to protect Jewish students, AMCHA Initiative represented seven organizations at Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting, demanding the Regents, President Janet Napolitano and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block intervene against0000000000000000 the bullying and intimidation tactics of UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). A letter from AMCHA Initiative, the

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

UCSD’s Jews Muslims team up for kosher, halal dining

By Zev Hurwitz LA JOLLA, California — The May 14 meeting of the Associated Students at UCSD —the governing student body —unanimously passed a resolution in support of a joint project brought forward by the Union of Jewish Students and the Muslim Student Association to establish kosher and halal dining facilities on campus. Over the past

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

Family of cancer patient, 19, felt blessed by routine

By E. Leibowitz Condensed from Hapeles – Mussaf PETACH TIKVAH, Israel (Press Release)–The clinic was busy as usual, filled with people of all ages. The silence was interrupted from time to time by murmured grumbling over the long wait. Yehuda would have preferred to remain ensconced in the Yeshiva, but the stomachache that had been

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Protein can protect cells from collapse by Alzheimer’s

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — The devastating loss of memory and consciousness in Alzheimer’s disease is caused by plaque accumulations and tangles in neurons, which kill brain cells. Alzheimer’s research has centered on trying to understand the pathology as well as the potential protective or regenerative properties of brain cells as an avenue for treating

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

The Flaw in Obamacare — Gov’t red tape

By Joe Gandelman   SAN DIEGO — There’s good news and bad news about Obamacare. The good news is some 8 million Americans have signed up for health care, and the national uninsured rate is dropping. The bad news is an estimated 5 million “working poor” Americans can’t get insurance because they’re considered too poor. Others

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Joe Gandelman, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Sanders urges more college credit programs in h.s.

BURLINGTON, Vermont (Press Release) – Flanked by Vermont college students and graduates who are deep in debt, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said today he will introduce legislation to help students earn college credits in high school in order to cut the cost of earning a college diploma. Sanders said he supports a separate bill to lower

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Mother who survived death says trust your premonitions

By Janice McCafferty CHICAGO — After seven rounds of intense and emotional IVF procedures, Stephanie Arnold became pregnant with her second child in October of 2012. All was fine until her 20th week ultrasound. Stephanie became overwhelmed with premonitions of her own death. She best explains this feeling as something that made every cell in

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Cohen bill would promote pre-natal care

WASHINGTON, DC  (Press Release)– With Mother’s Day approaching on Sunday, May 11th, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Friday, May 9, reintroduced legislation he first authored in 2009 to reduce tragically high rates of infant mortality. The Congressman’s Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act would create a national pilot program in cities

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

San Diego Jews in the News: May 9, 2014

Editor’s Note:  This is a new column about newsworthy members of San Diego County’s Jewish community.  We’ll draw our accounts from local print, broadcast and Internet media, adding tidbits now and then from our own store of knowledge.  The names of  people we know  are Jewish community members will appear in boldface type. SAN DIEGO – Two Jewish

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rialto Holocaust assignment ‘horribly inappropriate’

  RIALTO, California (WJC) — School district officials heresaid an assignment asking students to write an essay on whether they believe the Holocaust really happened was “horribly inappropriate”. The Rialto Unified School District made headlines when it gave eighth-graders the assignment to do some research and write an essay explaining whether they believed the Holocaust

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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education

Education research bill includes social, emotional learning

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday evening, March 8 passed bipartisan legislation – Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366) – to improve research on education programs and ensure those programs are effective in meeting national education priorities. H.R. 4366 includes language from a bill carried by U.S. Rep.

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Michelle Obama presents award to Yiddish Book Center

  WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–  First Lady Michelle Obama joined the Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Susan H. Hildreth to present the 2014 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to the Yiddish Book Center. In its 20th anniversary year, the National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries for

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