Science, Medicine, & Education

Netanyahu names winners for initiatives, innovation

JERUSALEM  (Press Release)– Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu will on 19 May 2014 at  Tel Aviv University award the Prime Minister’s Prize for Initiatives and Innovation for the fourth time. The Prize was founded by the Prime Minister to award to initiatives and innovation that make a special contribution to society and are of far-reaching socio-economic […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Double lens system developed for Smartphones

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Despite an addiction to taking pictures everywhere they go, cellphone junkies have not been able to ditch their stand-alone cameras quite yet. Smartphones still don’t possess the sharp zoom capabilities of digital still cameras, so the resulting pictures can be messy and out-of-focus. That won’t be the case for long, however.

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Feinstein: Climate change could cause California’s ruin

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Obama administration on Tuesday, May 6,  released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, a comprehensive report on climate change and how it will affect the country and economy. The report, which summarizes effects of climate change on the United States, was compiled by a team of more than 300 experts. According to

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Lowey: Extend abortion coverage to Peace Corps vols

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland) and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today introduced the bipartisan Peace Corps Equity Act in the House and Senate which would extend basic reproductive health care services to all Peace Corp volunteers. Currently, female Peace Corps volunteers –unlike most women with federal health care coverage – are denied

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Schatz bill would permit refinance of student loans

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) on Tuesday, May 6, introduced today with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and colleagues the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, legislation that would allow those with outstanding student loan debt to refinance at the lower interest rates currently offered to new borrowers. Over the last

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Schumer urges FDA to ban sale of powdered alcohol

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer has called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to step in and immediately halt Palcohol – a new and obviously dangerous powdered alcoholic product – from getting federal approval and hitting store shelves this fall. Palcohol is easily concealable, can be mixed with water and

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Mother, daughter to discuss bipolar condition May 13

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Authors Cinda Johnson and her daughter Linea will be featured speakers at a luncheon of the Behavioral Health Committee of Jewish Family Service of San Diego at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 13, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla. Cinda wrote the book Perfect Chaos: A Daughter’s Journey to Survive

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Boxer seeks prompt college guidelines on sexual assault

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release). – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Monday, May 5,  sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, urging him to quickly finalize and release regulations that will provide clear guidance to universities on how to address sexual assault on campus. A recent report issued by the White House Task Force to

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Anti-Semitic speech, behavior on the rise, but not violence

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Despite a 20% decline in the number of violent incidents against Jews, last year saw a sharp rise in abusive language and behavior, threats, and harassment of Jewish people on an individual basis around the world, according to the annual report presented on April 27, 2014, by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel advocate says pro- Palestinians excel on campuses

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Former IDF Lt. Hen Mazzig, who coordinates Israel advocacy for StandWithUs’s Pacific Northwest Chapter on 15 college campuses in and around Seattle, Washington, says the American Jewish community may be too focused on interacting with present-day elites, while pro-Palestinian advocates are building a constituency among the college

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

Syrian attack on school another war crime — Cardin

WASHINGTON , D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland.), a senior member of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, condemned the Assad regime’s attack, on April 30, on a school in the city of Aleppo that killed as many as 47 people, mainly children. The students were preparing

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Franken bill would require colleges to post net costs

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — With college growing increasingly unaffordable and student loan debt continuing to rise, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have introduced a bipartisan bill to give students and families a better estimate of college costs before they apply for schools. The bill would also help ensure that prospective

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