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President Obama’s call for peaceful protest in Israel

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama’s visit to Israel, and particularly his speech to 500 university students, was a winner at many levels including one he probably had not even considered. In how many countries can the President of the United States call forth the passions of the local people and have confidence

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

The President and Israel’s scientific accomplishments

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama has had an opportunity during his visit to see some of Israel’s pioneering technology. The list (with thanks to Tom Gross) includes energy alternatives; search and rescue technology; a bionic exoskeleton that allows paraplegics to walk; and a “third eye” camera that helps prevent automobile collisions. If

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Science, Medicine, & Education, Shoshana Bryen

President Obama and the new Israeli government

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israel has a government, Mr. President.  That’s something to remember when you arrive there next week. Israel has a government, elected by its people in a free, fair, open and democratic election. Multiple parties representing widely divergent points of view met a wildly diverse electorate through free media and

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Slow economy, kids’ creativity formula for business

  By Donald H. Harrison CARLSBAD, California — It’s a cynical way to look at it, but perhaps parents of preschoolers and elementary school students will consider the recent economic slowdown as a blessing in disguise.  When microbiologist Rudy Gonzalez was laid off from the biotech industry last year, he became a house husband.   Taking

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Donald H. Harrison

John the Baptist, Crusaders, Jerusalem invoked in Malta

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel– On our recent visit to Malta we were given special permission to examine the enormous painting by Caravaggio, ‘The Beheading of John the Baptist,’ that hangs in the massive co-cathedral (double cathedral) of Valletta, which is run by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. After the cathedral was

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Theresienstadt memory kept alive on Israeli kibbutz

  By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson GIVAT CHAYIM IHUD, Israel — The Theresienstadt Memorial Museum is situated in Israel’s verdant Jezreel Valley, in premises attached to this kibbutz. Once or twice a year I receive the museum newsletter, continuing the subscription taken out by my late father. For many years it appeared in stencil form on plain

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East