WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–President Obama on Monday, June 9, announced a program to make student loans more affordable. He outlined his executive order in the following speech at the White House, excerpted below: THE PRESIDENT: … For 51 months in a row, our businesses have created new jobs — 9.4 million new jobs in total.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USATzippora Price, Mother in Action: Exploring the Inner World of Motherhood, Menucha Publishers, ISBN 97816145130-7, 133 pages. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — First of all, the title is a misnomer, as the first part of the book is concerned with the author’s personal journey from college student in the USA to devout Jewess
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By Jeffrey F. Barken/JNS.org TEL AVIV (JNS) — Janet Tauro and Varda Kahanovich made a deal upon which their lives depend. Tauro, a foreign worker from Mumbai, provides Kahanovich, a 90-year-old Israeli woman living on Kibbutz Maagan Michael, warm and devoted care. In return, Kahanovich hopes to live a long and happy life, well beyond
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) and his colleagues in the Senate have received dozens of endorsements through petitions and letters in support of the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act introduced on May 6, 2014, which would allow those with outstanding student loan debt to refinance at the lower interest rates
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Five million dollars to help eliminate the national rape kit backlog that Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) secured in the House-passed Fiscal Year 2015 Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations bill was approved by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday morning, June 5. With the $5 million added through an amendment authored by
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) on Thursday, June 5, reached a bipartisan agreement to improve veterans’ access to health care and address serious problems facing the Department of Veterans Affairs. “While this is not the bill that I would have written, we
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday, June 4, about the pressing need to help students finish college without crushing student loans. The text of his speech follows: Mr. President, in the fall of last year, Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan, made an announcement that
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BOCA RATON, Florida (Press Release)–A mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Nothing could illustrate that more than the story of Arlene Feinberg, a mother who led the charge to find a bone marrow donor for her son Jay, who had been diagnosed with leukemia. She was a pioneer recruiting volunteer donors
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NEW YORK (Press Release) – A measure calling for the boycott of Israeli academics, first introduced at the Modern Language Association’s convention in Chicago last January, has failed to muster the minimum required for ratification, the MLA reported on Wednesday, June 4. The American Jewish Committtee (AJC) welcomed the rejection of what it called” a
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USALAPLATA, Maryland (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, hosted a roundtable with students, faculty and administrators at the College of Southern Maryland Monday, June 2, to discuss the growing cost of higher education. Student loan debt has ballooned to roughly $1 trillion, a sum larger
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BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed an agreement to create a new seed fund to finance joint research collaborations and student exchanges. The MIT-Israel – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Seed Fund is part of MISTI Global Seed Funds. MISTI will
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — How can one have a healthier and more meaningful lifestyle? The psychologist Dr. Michael Mantell likes to use acronyms when conveying his healing messages as he believes they are a helpful way for people to remember them. For him, the acronym PERMA conveys an important message as
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – It might have been a project on homelessness, or cleaning up the environment, or any other of a number of efforts by Jewish and Latino high school students to impact major social problems, but the project that caught the eye of the judges—and won a
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, celebrating its 51st anniversary two nights before Erev Shavuot, paid tribute to two women of the Bible and to three women who have been essential to the school’s own success. Bobbe Reitman, the school nurse, was honored as volunteer of the year.
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