Science, Medicine, & Education

Jewish Families Grapple With Baby Formula Shortage

By Channa Fischer (JNS) For months now, stores have been struggling to stock enough baby formula, even as manufacturers insist that they are producing at full capacity. In February, the Food and Drug Administration shut down a formula production facility run by Abbott Nutrition, which makes Similac, Alimentum and EleCare products, due to potential bacterial […]

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San Diego Jewish Academy Students Return from 3-Week Experiential Trip to Israel

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego Jewish Academy high school seniors traveled to Israel for 3 weeks of learning and touring the country through the Alexander Muss High School in Israel program (AMHSI). The travel experience included seniors being in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jerusalem College of Technology Launches New Business Program for Women

(JNS) The Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) has launched a business administration program at its Tal Campus for Women. The three-year program, which starts this fall, is the first English-speaking business degree exclusively offered for women in Jerusalem. And as JCT prides itself as an institution that empowers religious students to navigate the balance between

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Turning Lemons into Lemonade — Just Like Israel

SAN DIEGO — On Sunday afternoon May 15, community members from all around San Diego came together to celebrate Israel and Jewish Heritage month at Balboa Park. The event, “Israel: Diversity and Heritage” was held by the Jewish Federation of San Diego County as part of its “Celebrate Israel San Diego” and held in the

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Federation to UC Chancellor: ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Rising Antisemitism on Campus

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Leaders of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County sent the following letter to Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor of the University of California, regarding the increase in antisemitic incidents on campus and an upcoming speaker. May 6, 2022 Chancellor Khosla, In light of the concerns about the alarming increase in antisemitic

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San Diego High School Student Curates Holocaust Exhibit and Presents at International Holocaust Commemoration Event for David Labkovski Project

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The David Labkovski Project (DLP) creates a living bridge from the lessons of the Holocaust to the realities of today’s world. The DLP introduces and preserves the legacy of the Holocaust experience through the artwork of world-renowned artist David Labkovski (1906-1991). His work empowers participants to engage in curated multi-disciplinary

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Holocaust, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Leading Research Collaboration in Israel Unveils New Name

(JNS) A historic partnership between the University of Arizona, Jewish National Fund-USA and farmers in the Arava Valley, has been renamed as the Kasser Joint Institute for Food, Water, and Energy Security, in honor of a $1 million commitment made to the Institute by philanthropists Beth and Mike Kasser. “If you have enough water, then

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Who Actually Wrote the Harvard Crimson’s Pro-BDS Editorial?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Last Friday’s Harvard Crimson editorial starkly proclaims: “We support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as a means of achieving that goal.” Since the editorial lacks a byline, we can only guess who wrote it. My prime suspects are Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Who else? The editorial follows

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This Yom Ha’Atzmaut, I’m Talking to My First-Grader About Palestinians

By Shira Klein ORANGE, California — “Come on, they’re just Arabs,” laughed my friend Yogev. We were 19 years old, both soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, enjoying a weekend leave on the colorful streets of Tel Aviv. Yogev had been showing me a couple of IDs he had taken from Palestinians, “for fun,” he

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Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Graduation Day at the Radiation Treatment Center

Today, April 29, 2022, was a bellringing day for me at the Jacobs Medical Center at UCSD Health Sciences.  I completed a 33-day course of radiation in the hope of arresting a meningioma that was growing on top of my brain.  On July 1, I will have an MRI to learn how well the treatment worked. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Jewish National Fund-USA Philanthropic Giant, Inventor of the Implantable Defibrillator Remembered

(JNS) Jewish National Fund-USA mourns the passing of Dr. Morton “Mort” Mower, a legendary member of the organization’s King Solomon Society and World Chairman’s Council, who was also the inventor of the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) for congestive heart failure. “Dr. Mower loved Israel with a passion beyond words,” said Jewish

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

‘Butterfly Project’ Fuses Holocaust Education and Israel Education, Raises Hope

By Daniela Ben Joseph SAN DIEGO — On the beautiful morning of April 10, The Butterfly Project in collaboration with the StandWithUs San Diego High School Department, held a Holocaust education program at the House of Israel. The International Village in Balboa Park where it is located, receives hundreds of visitors each weekend, making it the

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Parents: Encourage Your Children to Participate in Student Government

By Elior Amar (JNS) On one Tuesday night in February, a small group of Jewish students at UC Santa Cruz, where I serve as a shaliach (Israeli emissary) for the Jewish Agency for Israel, logged into the weekly Zoom meeting of the Student Union Assembly to support the adoption of a working definition of antisemitism. The

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California, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Reframing the Arguments in Israel and the Palestinian Authority

Almost all arguments about Israel revolve around one or more of the following themes: security, collective identity, freedom, and territory. Authors Gringras and Sterne help us to conceptualize these arguments with a series of analogies.  They challenge us to argue, in the classic sense of the word, about right and wrong in the hope that we may learn from each other. Arguments are different from fights; they are mental exercises, not physical, and they are laid out methodically, with each side trying to educate the other using such tools as logic and empathy. [Donald H. Harrison]

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