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Study: Big breakfasts, small dinners for diabetics

March 16, 2015

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Our modern epidemic of obesity has led to an alarming rise in the incidence of diabetes. More than 382 million people on the planet suffer from diabetes, predominantly type-2 diabetes. For these people, blood sugar surges — glucose spikes after meals — can be life threatening, leading to cardiovascular complications. A […]

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Jewish news briefs: March 16, 2015

March 16, 2015

At pre-election rally, Netanyahu blasts Livni/Herzog stances on Jerusalem (JNS.org) At a rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square that was attended by tens of thousands of Israelis supporting the country’s right-wing political parties, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—whose Likud party is trailing the Zionist Union alliance in polls ahead of Tuesday’s Knesset election—slammed his rivals’ positions

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International, Middle East, USA

‘Oedipus’ in the barrio

March 16, 2015

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “We all got destiny. We all got stories already been written.” If you’ve ever taken a psych class, you’ve heard the name “Oedipus.” Playwright Luis Alfaro is known for his adaptations of Greek tragedy including Electricidad and Oedipus el Rey, recasting them in the Spanglish of the barrio. This

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Travel and Food

In attacking Bibi, ‘Economist’ may have helped him

March 15, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM —The Economist ranks as one of the best of the English language news magazines, even while calling itself a newspaper. It provides coverage of a wide range of places and issues, recalling the extent of what was once the Empire ruled from the magazine’s home town of London. Among those places favored

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

The Jewish comedians: Dan Mintz

March 15, 2015

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Travel and Food

‘Annie,” J* Company help more than her fellow orphans

March 15, 2015

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — As nearly 500 youngsters took their seats in the Garfield Theater of the Lawrence Family JCC, Pied Piper Joey Landwehr greeted them and gave some pointers on being the perfect audience. He engaged the viewers to define “focus” and “respect” so that the show would be most rewarding for

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Travel and Food

Large Pan mask found at Hippos- Sussita

March 15, 2015

HAIFA (Press Release) — A large bronze mask of the god Pan, the only of its kind, was uncovered at the University of Haifa’s excavation at Hippos-Sussita National Park. According to Dr. Michael Eisenberg, bronze masks of this size are extremely rare and usually do not depict Pan or any of the other Greek or

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel and its prophetic vision

March 15, 2015

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — A few thousand years ago a rag-tag band of shepherds cum runaway slaves were wandering around in a desert wasteland led by an enigmatic figure – Moses. No one is sure from whence he came, the origins of his name or where he went. The people told a story of

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Middle East, USA

The case against the New Israel Fund

March 14, 2015

By Hank Sheinkopf and Ronn Torossian NEW YORK — As President Harry Truman said, “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” Recently, many have stood up and told the truth about New Israel Fund’s support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, their

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Middle East, USA

Israeli political parties reach out to English speakers

March 14, 2015

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — One of the last political debates three days before Israel’s general elections on Tuesday, March 17th, took place at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue on Saturday night, March 14. Aimed at the English-speaking community of Jerusalem, the very last English-language debate was hosted by the Jerusalem Post and the Association

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International, Middle East, USA

Kerry praises Iran’s fatwa against nuclear weapons

March 14, 2015

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Press Release) — Meeting with reporters after his economic discussions with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday, March 14, spoke about the “tough” and “intense” P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran that will resume on Sunday in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here are excerpts from Kerry’s meeting with the

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Middle East, USA

UCSD offers public access to Shoah archive

March 14, 2015

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Some 20 years ago, Brian Schottlaender was serving as an associate librarian for collection services at UCLA, when Doug Greenberg invited him to visit a movie studio lot in Burbank. Greenberg took him to the trailers which then were housing the interviews that volunteers had videotaped with survivors of the

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israeli Arabs, Palestinians diverge in views

March 14, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An opinion poll published in Friday’s Yedioth Aharonoth provides an insight into the Arab population of Israel. Along with surveys of Palestinians, it should be viewed with a bit more salt than is usually taken with survey research. Arabs are less inclined than us blabbermouth Jews and other westerners to reveal their attitudes

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Donald H. Harrison, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East