Hats off to former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his You Tube video, shown in an article republished on San Diego Jewish World, that urges antisemites to turn away from hate for their own sake. Haters, he said, never win and end up broken. [Donald H. Harrison]
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — In its third year, ADI’s “Make the Change Challenge” STEM accessible design contest drew 227 exceptional entries from students across North America, but it was Naomi Ghitelman from the Posnack School in Davie, Fla., who won the day, claiming the contest’s $1,000 grand prize and successfully spotlighting the inaccessibility of our
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In 1995, the Institute began construction of another facility in Carlsbad where white sea bass are now raised. The hatchery annually releases 100,000 white sea bass into the ocean. After learning how to grow and manage a species in more than 20 years of operation of that laboratory, the Institute now is embarked upon a far more ambitious and potentially far more impactful project with California yellowtail. [Donald H. Harrison]
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(JNS) Using high-resolution magnetic imaging focused on snake skulls and DNA testing, Belgian, Finnish, Hong Kong, Israeli, Madagascan and U.S. researchers have identified a new family of snakes. There are just three species of micrelapidae—one in Israel and nearby areas and two in Kenya and Tanzania, per a Tel Aviv University release. Shai Meiri, a
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Camp Carmel Creek, which will launch this summer at the beautiful 56 acre campus of San Diego Jewish Academy, aims to fill childhood summers with joy, curiosity, adventure, and community. Campers from kindergarten to 5th grade will get to experience classic camp activities and engaging Jewish experiences, while also tailoring
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By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Some critics might label two questions on a statewide test as intellectual dishonesty in our fourth largest state that is home to the most sizable Jewish population in America. Except that there was nothing intellectual about these questions. The correct multiple-choice answer to one question assumes that the Holocaust
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By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — A few months ago, I was walking 4,000 steps a day using long strides. Then, one day as I was opening my refrigerator, the handle broke in two and I crashed onto the kitchen floor. An X-ray revealed a compression fraction in the L1 disk of
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The San Diego Community College District has named Rabbi Laurie Coskey, Ed.D., former associate rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel, as its vice chancellor of Development and Entrepreneurship, a newly created position responsible for building even stronger initiatives to promote student success and persistence with philanthropists, private and public foundations and
Freedenthal says that most people who have suicidal thoughts are not in immediate danger of attempting to kill themselves. Most are giving serious consideration to the idea but have not gotten to the point where they want to actuate their thoughts. They are still debating with themselves, and that’s when a supportive friend, family member or partner can help them navigate toward making a life-saving choice. [Donald H. Harrison]
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Jewish Community Foundation is excited to introduce giv4 climate san diego, a new way to support local nonprofits having an impact on climate change in San Diego. After a five-month deep dive with climate experts, we curated a fund of nonprofits working on (1) immediate physical impact; (2) advocacy
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ORANGE, California (Press Release) — Wikipedia is one of the few trusted sources of reliable information left on the Internet. This, of course, is exactly why governments that want to promote a particular perspective have incentive to manipulate it. New research by Chapman University and the University of Ottawa shows how a small group of
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By Faygie Holt (JNS) On a windy day last Sunday, more than 200 people gathered in Santa Barbara, Calif., for a “Walk to Remember” commemorating Holocaust victims and to address the importance of condemning antisemitism. That community has seen a fair share of the latter recently. A Jan. 30 University of California, Santa Barbara class
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California, Israel, Science, Medicine, & EducationCraven now has been “cancelled” by the unforgiving academic community. The irony of this is that were it not for Bill Craven, Cal State San Marcos would not have existed in the first place. He fought the uphill legislative battle to win approval for the construction of that campus. Opponents noted that San Diego County already had San Diego State University, whereas other parts of the state didn’t have even one state university campus, much less two, in addition to a campus of the University of California. [Donald H. Harrison]
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By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — Coming on the heels of a major milestone for the school’s Jewish community as well as amid the rising tide of antisemitism on campus and nationwide, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was even more poignant than usual at UCSD this year. Marking the first large-scale event at the Beverly