By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some day Armstrong Gidongo will be an airplane pilot, but it’s debatable whether he will ever experience as exciting a trip as the eight-month solo journey that he took as a boy, not yet 18, from his impoverished village of Navugoya, Uganda, to Israel, where he hoped […]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) released on Wednesday, June 18, the following statement in response to General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra’s testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: “Especially in light of this week’s recalls of millions more vehicles, Mary Barra’s testimony today raised
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is a cosponsor of S.Res.474 , which was approved unanimously by the Senate and commemorates Juneteenth 2014. The resolution includes specific recognition of Frederick Douglass who was born in the State of Maryland in 1818, escaped from slavery and became a leading writer, orator,
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) made the case at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee meeting on Wednesday, June 18, for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and help fix our nation’s broken campaign finance system. At the meeting, he continued his fight to restore democracy to average Minnesotans
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Sens. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, hailed the success of buprenorphine, a medication that helps to block the craving for heroin, and they talked to public health officials, physicians, and patients at a Senate forum on Wednesday, June 18, about what steps can be taken to increase the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Representatives Jared Polis (D-Colorado) and Kevin Yoder (R-Kansas) announced on Wednesday, June 18, that the Email Privacy Act (HR 1852) has reached 218 cosponsors, signifying support from a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives. This bill would update the existing Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which was written in
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USAWASHINGTON, DC. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday, June 18, called for the immediate release of the three teenage boys who went missing in Israel’s West Bank last Thursday. One of the boys, Naftali Frenkel, is a dual citizen of Israel and the United States. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Two prominent Jewish philanthropic families will have their names forever linked to cancer treatment at a hospital being built on the UCSD campus in La Jolla. The hospital is called the Jacobs Medical Center, after the family of
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Sondra Berk of San Diego, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology on June 15 for her leadership and dedication to the Technion and the San Diego community. A natural leader and passionate advocate for the Technion, Berk is a long-time member of the American Technion Society
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –That’s really scary, I said to Heather, my forty-six-year-old trainer. I don’t want to do this. Heather insisted, it was not about a new set of exercises that she was promoting, it was for me to get online on a dating site. As I was resisting, stating huge
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Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC (American Jewish Committee) announced on Wednesday, June 18, that Stephan Kramer will be appointed to a newly-created position — Director, European Office on Anti-Semitism. “The rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe, which poses a threat to Jewish communities and to the very fabric and fiber of Europe’s democratic societies, demands
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International, USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Lung cancer causes more deaths in the U.S. than the next three most common cancers combined (colon, breast, and pancreatic). The reason for the striking mortality rate is simple: poor detection. Lung cancer attacks without leaving any fingerprints, quietly afflicting its victims and metastasizing uncontrollably — to the point of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – Two massive fires broke out Tuesday, June 17, in the Jerusalem area, one in the Giloh neighborhood and one near Abu-Gosh, on the main route between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The fire in Abu Gosh caused the shutting down of route No. 1 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, met Wednesday, June 18, with the families of the kidnapped boys Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frankel and Gilad Sha’ar. The meeting was attended by the parents of the boys and representatives of the police and the military who are in constant contact with the families. During
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