Travel and Food

By Steve Hofstetter FRESNO, California — One day in April everything changed. Just before noon, my wife Sara and I stopped in Modesto for lunch. I was driving us from San Francisco to Visalia, and couldn’t find a viable healthy restaurant on the way. Traveling with our dog, Bea Arthur, limited our choices to just those […]

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Because it has no source of energy, a dead star — known as a white dwarf — will eventually cool down and fade away. But circumstantial evidence suggests that white dwarfs can still support habitable planets, says Prof. Dan Maoz of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy. Now Prof.

By Rachel Marder/JNS.org JERUSALEM – While Israel is fast becoming a leader in the biomedical and biotechnology fields, industry experts say the Israeli Health Ministry may be unduly hindering its growth. Famously called a “start-up nation,” a nickname coined by Dan Senor and Saul Singer in their 2009 book about the Jewish state’s economic miracle, today

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI City, Taiwan — National Taiwan Normal University — and “Normal University” here is a French educational term that means a “Teachers College” — signed a partnership agreement  with the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District to help provide Chinese-language teachers for an Asian-language learning center set to

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Federation of San Diego County and community partners will sponsor an annual community event to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut on April 21 held at Nobel Athletic Field in the University City area.  This is a free event to celebrate and educate our local community about Israel and its culture.

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — About two weeks ago, the San Diego Union-Tribune weekly supplement called American Profile included an article by Audrey T. Hingley titled Great American Composers. The title obviously perked my interest, but I found it disturbing and misleading on different levels. Here are the ten composers who were listed as

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Last year marked the return of political Nazism to Europe, declared Dr. Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, at a press conference to announce the results of the 2012 Anti-Semitism Worldwide Report published by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry. Headed by Prof.

By Anav Silverman The Israeli beer industry includes a wide range of brewmasters from native Israelis to North American immigrants whose microbreweries can be found across the country from the Golan, Western Galilee and Jezreel Valley, to Ein Hod, Emek Hefer and the Negev. In the hills of Judea, Gush Etzion also has its very

By Anav Silverman It is often overlooked that Yiddish, the language spoken by millions of Ashkenazi Jews for nearly 1,000 years across Europe, played an important role in the formation of Israeli culture. For Professor Chava Turniansky from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, that point is very clear. The 75-year-old professor will be awarded the