By Donald H. Harrison SANTEE, California — The Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley is credited with the saying, “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.” However, an informational sign board at Mast Park “rails” against […]
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Surprisingly little is known about schizophrenia. It was only recognized as a medical condition in the past few decades, and its exact causes remain unclear. Since there is no objective test for schizophrenia, its diagnosis is based on an assortment of reported symptoms. The standard treatment, antipsychotic medication, works less
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QUEENS, N.Y. (Press Release) – Victor Mooney, AIDS crusader, had the words “Shalom” and “Never Forget” printed in Hebrew in vinyl letters onto a 12 inch metal tube to symbolize the Peace that we all pray for in this world, but also to remind us to Never Forgot our history. Mooney will carry this tube
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Female (top) and male ducks spotted at Poway Lake on Saturday, Dec. 28 By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California — On the periphery of a bunch of old coots, I saw a couple keeping more or less to themselves, clearly outsiders. On that Shabbat afternoon, Dec. 28, he wore what looked like a
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ENCINITAS, California — The Irish are known for having a special connection to horses and Audrey Reynolds is no exception. She grew up riding and competed successfully for many years in Ireland, England, and the United States. Twenty years ago, she suffered a serious injury which brought a halt to her show jumping and riding.
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Mimi Pollack, The World We ShareSAN DIEGO–What a wonderful world we live in — if only we would take the time to appreciate it! * San Diego Jewish World thanks Amnon Markusfeld for forwarding the above video to us.
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By Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi NEW DELHI, India — The need for the strengthening of Indo-Israel academic ties has been increasingly felt lately. Two events held in Delhi within a week drew attention to the neglect India-Israel academic ties suffer from, in spite of the great strengthening of trade relations between the two countries during
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By Mimi Pollack LA MESA, California — Animals don’t have nationalities. They will love you no matter who you are and where you come from. Unfortunately, humans’ treatment of animals varies greatly, depending on the country and culture. There are many strays and homeless animals in Mexico. The dogs and cats of Tijuana and
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Mimi Pollack, a friend and occasional writer for San Diego Jewish World, is an adjunct faculty member at Grossmont College in neighboring El Cajon. She teaches English as a Second Language, which is popularly abbreviated as “ESL.” Whenever I see that abbreviation,” I think of the word “easel,”
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By Suzanne Pollak Ruven Gelfond has changed surgical nails into complex screws and converted regular equipment into tools for eye surgery. He has helped blind people see, delivered babies and set scores of bones. His day job is a nurse in charge of running the hospital surgical unit at Hadassah Mount Scopus. But in
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Coffee and beer are polar opposites in the beverage world. Coffee picks you up, and beer winds you down. Now Prof. Martin Kupiec and his team at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology have discovered that the beverages may also have opposite effects on your genome. Working
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM — In recent months remains of an impressive structure from the Hasmonean period (second century BCE) have been unearthed in excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Giv‘ati site, located in the City of David near the walls surrounding the Old City. Josephus wrote about Hasmonean Jerusalem, but
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM–After spending two weeks in the areas devastated by typhoon Haiyan and treating over 1,000 patients, the 15 member Israeli F.I.R.S.T (Fast Israeli Rescue and Saving Teams) civilian rescue team returned to Israel from the Philippines. After establishing a field hospital, the team operated a mobile medical care unit, moving from one
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Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Psychology shows that it doesn’t take much to put you in a bad mood. Just reading the morning news can do it. And being in a bad mood slows your reaction time, and affects your basic cognitive abilities like speech, writing, and counting. If you read a depressing newspaper headline in
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