UCSD: $131 million raised for Jacobs Medical Center

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Committed to fostering the future of health care in San Diego, more than 1,000 donors have contributed $131 million to UC San Diego’s Jacobs Medical Center. Included in the total are gifts that matched a donation of $25 million, meeting the Challenge goal of the initiative. The campus announced  on Thursday, […]

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Humoring the Headlines: November 20, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Fox News’ reporters are apoplectic about Obama’s Executive Order to defer the deportation of millions of undocumented aliens.  They accuse him of permitting potential carriers of Ebola, drug dealers, felons, and terrorists to remain in the country.  Meanwhile, the FCC has requested the network to change its slogan from “Fair

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Funding announced for educational leadership study

PALO ALTO, California (Press Release)—The Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education (CASJE) has selected American Institutes for Research (AIR) to conduct its inaugural research project in Jewish Educational Leadership. This project is designed to begin creating a research base to inform and develop the practices and effectiveness of leaders in Jewish educational settings. CASJE,

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

WJC: Important to engage with United Nations

EILAT, Israel (WJC) –Robert Singer, chief executive officer of the World Jewish Congress, praised the work of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in international organizations, in particular the United Nations. Addressing an IAJLJ convention in Eilat, Singer said: “There is a strange tendency – even in the West – to apply different

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International, Middle East

Ashkelon’s Arab workers ban decried by Israeli officials

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israeli politicians on Thursday, Nov. 20,  lambasted the mayor of the southern city of Ashkelon for ordering a halt of construction on bomb shelters in city kindergartens in order to keep Arab workers off  the sites. Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior Israeli politicians criticizing Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s announcement on Facebook that

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Middle East

Issue not land, it’s Islamist hatred of Jews

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Once again, the Obama administration has become disturbed about Jews building homes, neglecting to pressure Palestinian leaders to stop incitement against Jews and terror attacks on Israelis. The offense: permits were approved to construct less than 100 homes in a Jewish area of Jerusalem which happens to be beyond the

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Symbolic brit milah held day after synagogue massacre

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — It was prayer as usual at the Jerusalem synagogue on Wednesday morning following the devastating Palestinian terror attack that left four rabbis and a Druze policeman dead the previous day.  The morning Shacharit prayer services were full of worshipers and men studying Torah, as security guards and border police milled

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Haifa scientists seek to PERK up Alzheimer memory

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–In a new study conducted by the Sagol Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa and published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers report that they’ve found a way to improve memory by manipulating a specific molecule that is known to function poorly in old age and is closely linked

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education