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The cyber warfare in the body’s inner space

October 10, 2014

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Two years ago, Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy and Rice University’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics made the startling discovery that cancer, like an enemy hacker in cyberspace, targets the body’s communication network to inflict widespread damage on the entire system. Cancer, he found,

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2014 Top Green Chef: Cooking for a cause

October 10, 2014

By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – What do you get when you combine delicious food, sustainable business, and charitable giving, spiced up with a little competition? Top Green Chef 2014! On September 30, the Port of San Diego Green Business Network hosted its annual cook-off at the SDG&E® Energy Innovation Center. Now in its third

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Travel and Food

Why America’s support for Israel can waver

October 10, 2014

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Most American supporters of Israel believe that the US government has high regard for Israel and that it considers the Jewish State a valued ally and friend. And why might that be? Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East. Israel shares “Judeo-Christian values” with America. Israel

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Cygnet’s ‘True West’ not for the faint of heart

October 9, 2014

By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – Violence? Check. Despair? Check. A typewriter and toasters? Check and check. The trope of brothers feuding goes as far back as Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis. In Cygnet Theatre’s new production of playwright Sam Shepard’s True West, the story gains a new twist as the brothers,

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Travel and Food

Suit brought against nursing homes operator

October 9, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —A law firm in Long Beach has filed a class action suit against a company that operates 57 nursing homes in California, including five facilities in San Diego County. The lawsuit incorporated declarations from the state attorney general’s office in another case to contend that by understaffing nursing homes,

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jewish lecture series begin in Carlsbad, Coronado

October 9, 2014

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture begins its season of free lectures in Carlsbad and in Coronado with visiting Israeli scholar, Dr. Sariel Birnbaum who will speak on “The Image of the Jew in Arab Cinema”. His talk will takes place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on

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Travel and Food

Some Yiddish understood the world over

October 9, 2014

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –If people make the world go round, words make the world go round, too. I mention this today because there’s an Indian gentleman named Anu Garg who now lives in America and runs a popular word maven newsletter, free of charge, for people who like words and word origins. Like

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Trivia, Humor & Satire

Much to be tense about this Succot

October 8, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Relax? Impossible. Too much is threatening. Daesh, whatever that is, is chopping heads and managing to evade the US air campaign (along with a few other participants providing 10 percent of the airstrikes), and imposing its draconian Islam across much of Syria and Iraq. Hamas says that it intends to do

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Calling Elie Wiesel onto the carpet

October 8, 2014

By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Elie Wiesel asks “Why?” In the current issue of Hadassah Magazine, Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Laureate for peace since 1986, tells the story of a television interview in which he was asked what he would say to God if he could talk to him. His answer was

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Middle East

Dr. Freud meets C.S. Lewis in North Coast Rep play

October 8, 2014

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — “And how does that make you feel?” I asked David Ellenstein as we chatted in the rehearsal space of North Coast Repertory Theater. I, in the chair, notepad in hand, and David, director of “Freud’s Last Session” on the chaise. And so began our fifty-minute-hour interview about this imaginary

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Travel and Food

Jews, Christians join in protest of persecution

October 8, 2014

JERUSALEM (WJC) — The frightening situation of many Christian communities in the Middle East will be center-stage at events in Israel next week on the occasion of the Feast of Tabernacles, at which several thousand Christian pilgrims are expected to visit Israel, making it the country’s largest tourist event. Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin and World

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Middle East

Novel combines many genres

October 8, 2014

The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg, Random House © 2013, ISBN 978-0-679-64374-6; 336 pages, $26. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—There are two mysteries to be solved in The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg, who contributes articles on books and dance to San Diego Jewish World. One mystery is the central story of this novel.

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Donald H. Harrison

Multi-tasking is a woman’s special talent

October 8, 2014

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel– “Can’t you see I’m in the middle of doing something?” “I couldn’t write the number down because the phone call woke me up.” “I’ll call you later, I have to finish this now.” These and similar responses are what almost every wife hears when she asks her husband to help

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

JNS news briefs: October 8, 2014

October 8, 2014

3 Israeli police officers injured in Temple Mount riot (JNS.org) Three Israeli police officers were injured by stones and fireworks when clashes broke out on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, Israel Hayom reported. They were treated for their injuries by police medics on site. As soon as the Temple Mount was opened to visitors

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Middle East

The cyber warfare in the body’s inner space

2014 Top Green Chef: Cooking for a cause

Why America’s support for Israel can waver

Cygnet’s ‘True West’ not for the faint of heart

Suit brought against nursing homes operator

Jewish lecture series begin in Carlsbad, Coronado

Some Yiddish understood the world over

Much to be tense about this Succot

Calling Elie Wiesel onto the carpet

Dr. Freud meets C.S. Lewis in North Coast Rep play

Jews, Christians join in protest of persecution

Novel combines many genres

Multi-tasking is a woman’s special talent

JNS news briefs: October 8, 2014

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