TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Fatigue, weight gain, chills, hair loss, anxiety, excessive perspiration — these symptoms are a few of the signs that the thyroid gland, which regulates the body’s heart rate and plays a crucial role in its metabolism, has gone haywire. Now, new research from Tel Aviv University points to an additional
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsrael approves $360 million aid package for Gaza-border communities (JNS.org) The Israeli government on Sunday approved a multi-year strategic recovery plan devised for southern Israel in the wake of Operation Protective Edge. The plan includes the immediate appropriation of $360 million to communities adjacent to the Israel-Gaza border. “This is the biggest investment Israel has
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Israeli civil rights group, Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, has warned United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that awarding the UN Development Programme’s annual Equator Prize for 2014 to the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (“UAWC”), a Palestinian organization that is formally affiliated with the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel’s population now stands at more than 8.2 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Monday, releasing its new figures on the eve of Rosh Hashana. They show that Israel has 8,252,500 inhabitants, three quarters of which (6,186,100) are Jews (75 percent of the total), 1,709,900 Arabs (20.7 percent) and 356,500 others (4.3
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Minda Garr, a holistic psychotherapist, recently gave a talk about her work to the group of English-speaking women to which I belong. By being aware of our breathing, ‘breathing into your heart,’ as our speaker put it, the individual can attain a sense of inner peace, gain a
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO–Why do we fast in the first place? Yes, the answer is in the very word itself: F.A.S.T. = For A Spiritual Transformation During Yom Kippur, beginning this year at sundown on October 3rd and ending 25 hours later on October 4th, many Jews will be fasting and engaged
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Jewish Religion, Michael MantellBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Happy 5775! I wish all of my readers a happy and healthy new year. And, while you’re eating apples and honey, please think about some financial resolutions. A void consumer debt, such as credit cards. P lan for for the future – everyone should have a comprehensive financial plan.
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Sheryl RowlingBy Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Lawrence Kushner doesn’t bill himself as a dancer, and I didn’t go to see him at San Diego’s Yom Limmud in my role as a dance critic. But the rabbi’s got moves! Rabbi Kushner was giving a talk titled “Jewish Spirituality: It’s All God.” I was interested because
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has hailed the unanimous U.S. Senate adoption of the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act (S. 2673). This important measure, co-sponsored by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), recognizes Israel is a major U.S. strategic partner, and broadens the U.S.-Israel alliance by promoting greater cooperation on security,
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It risks the charge of banality to assert that Israel is a place with a multitude of historical layers, many of which intrude into its politics and international relations. The people who migrated, fought, conquered, suffered defeat, left, or stayed have made their mark on the names of places, changes in the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ San Diego Unified School District returned the Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle it had received from the Department of Defense. In the letter to the DOD, it explained that it had rescinded its “spare the tank, spoil the child” disciplinary policy. * Vice-President Biden apologized to the Jewish community for calling predatory
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — What do August Osage County, Death at a Funeral, Nora’s Will, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Wish I Was Here have in common? They all focus on squabbling dysfunctional families brought together by the death or dying of a mother or father. Grieving or the inability to grieve compels the
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Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer JERUSALEM — I had last visited the Temple Mount in 1982, on a synagogue-sponsored trip from New Jersey. My memories of that visit are hazy, but Michal and I got another chance just before Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. We joined a Tel Aviv University-sponsored trip, guided by archeologist/historian Dr. Stephen Rosenberg, whose
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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer-First in a series- By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — This is part one of a five-part series on the emotional states of grief. The poems are excerpted from my book, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after Loss. Everyone deals with pain differently. What helps me is
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