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I-8 Jewish Travel: Jewish physicist developed new pump

-56th in a Series- Exit 23: Lake Jennings Park Road, Lakeside ~ Eddy Pump Corporation, El Cajon By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – A pumping system estimated to save the U.S. Navy millions of dollars over the equipment’s lifetime was invented by a Jewish surgeon with a PhD in fluid dynamics and a master’s in

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Two remarkable women: Szekely and Blackstone

  By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — When I was in my twenties, one of my favorite books was, Meetings with Remarkable Men by George Gurdjieff. Just recently, I had my meeting with two remarkable women, Deborah Szekely and Vivian Blackstone. Szkeley just celebrated her 94th birthday and Blackstone will be 88 this summer. When

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Netanyahu blasts Yair Golan over Shoah comment

Tel Aviv (dpa) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted Israel’s deputy chief of military staff on Sunday for drawing similarities between the “sickening processes” of pre-Nazi Germany in the 1920s and 1930s and present-day Israel. Netanyahu called Yair Golan’s comparison, which was made on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, “infuriating” and “unacceptable.” In a speech Wednesday

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Bronfman ‘country home’ on sale for $8 million

The 9,000-square-foot home of the late industry titan Edgar Bronfman Sr. is up for sale in the tony town of Westport, Connecticut, home to celebrities such as Michael Bolton, Harvey Weinstein and Joanne Woodward. Sotheby’s International Realty listed the property for $7,995,000, or just over $10 million Canadian, on Tuesday. The 13-acre estate is currently

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