Science, Medicine, & Education

UCSD team wins ‘Jeopardy’ competition at Grossmont

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – With a steady drumbeat on the buzzer and an apparent photographic memory for every little fact in Siddhartha Mukherjee’s book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, James Dohleman led his UCSD team to a runaway victory in a three-way contest against Pt. Loma Nazarene

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

Breast cancer stamp raising millions for research

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Each month, hundreds of thousands of Breast Cancer Research Stamps are sold across the country, with each stamp contributing to the fight against this deadly disease. In March 2014, 999,000 stamps were sold, raising more than $110,000 for research efforts. Since the first stamp was issued on July 29, 1998, more than

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Creating a feeder program for the Model U.N.

The following essay was written by Jessica Cohen, a high school student participating in a U.S.-Israel Social Entrepreneurship Program cosponsored by the Rady School of Business at UCSD and the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles.  Between the period of April 13 and June 1, Cohen and other students in the program will attend five

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

Standard drugs for Huntington’s may be detrimental

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— People diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, most in their mid-thirties and forties, face a devastating prognosis: complete mental, physical, and behavioral decline within two decades. “Mutant” protein clusters, long blamed for the progression of the genetic disease, have been the primary focus of therapies in development by pharmaceutical companies. But according to

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Tool found that may have been used to build the Kotel

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) has made an extraordinary archaeological finding: it has uncovered a Second Temple Era iron chisel, which may have served the builders of the Second Temple. Archaeologist Eli Shukrun, who heads the dig at the bottom of the Temple Mount near the Western Wall, stated that

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Drive for universal pre- school wins Latino support

SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – A new Field Poll reveals that ninety-one percent of registered Latino voters in California believe it is either somewhat or very important to make publicly-supported preschool available to all four-year old children. Seventy-five percent of registered Latino voters feel that the projected cost of implementing universal preschool in California is worth the

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Feinstein calls for improved health standards for poultry

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have called on the Department of Agriculture to develop food safety standards that will significantly reduce the levels of Salmonella and Campylobacter in chicken and turkey products. “We write to urge you to develop strong performance standards for poultry products that will

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Science, Medicine, & Education

IDF, Ben Gurion University team for cyber-security

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has signed an $8.5 million agreement with the Israel National Cyber Bureau to develop CyberSpark, which includes a National Cyber Research Center adjacent to BGU’s campus. CyberSpark was conceived as an innovative research and development ecosystem of major multinational corporations, business incubators, BGU researchers, Israel Defense Force

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Brandeis University’s double standard for black victims

By Moshe Phillips and Binyomin Korn PHILADELPHIA — The Brandeis University administration professes to be deeply concerned about the rights of black Africans. In the 1980s, it divested its holdings in companies that did business with the South African apartheid regime. In 2000, it invited Bishop Desmond Tutu to give its commencement address, despite Tutu’s

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

Zambian Jews help underwrite medical school

KITWE, Zambia (WJC) — The Copperbelt University School of Medicine in Zambia has received a 1 million USD donation from the Council of Zambian Jewry, an affiliate of the African Jewish Congress. The donation is to be used for the development of the medical campus, which opened doors in 2011. The school is currently based at theNdola Central

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

Sister schools build on Jewish pioneer’s legacy

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –In an effort to promote international friendship, a Jewish organization on Thursday, April 17, presented a school teacher with round trip airline tickets to … Germany. The teacher, Skye Oluwa, a member of the faculty at Cabrillo Elementary School in the Point Loma area of San Diego,

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jews from former Soviet Union to gather, learn in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia (Press Release) – Over 1,000 Jewish participants, mainly from across Russia, will gather in Moscow, April 24-27 for the Limmud FSU Moscow conference, which is considered the largest Jewish gathering in the former Soviet Union. Limmud FSU conferences are also considered to be among the leading Jewish cultural events in the FSU, and provide

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education