Deutch back bill for Venezuelan human rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed H.R. 4587, the Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act. Co-introduced by Chairman Emeritus Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-21), Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-5), Rep. Albio Sires (NJ-8), Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-9), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), Rep. Corrine Brown (FL-5), Rep. Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Rep. […]

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International, USA

Cohen bill would promote pre-natal care

WASHINGTON, DC  (Press Release)– With Mother’s Day approaching on Sunday, May 11th, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Friday, May 9, reintroduced legislation he first authored in 2009 to reduce tragically high rates of infant mortality. The Congressman’s Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act would create a national pilot program in cities

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Make cruise ship inspection records public — Blumenthal

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– In a letter to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp, Jr., U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W.V.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called on the Coast Guard to detail how it plans to use inspection information to hold

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Travel and Food

100 Orthodox rabbis want Mount of Olives cemetery to be protected against ongoing Arab vandalism

NEW YORK (Press Release) – More than 100 prominent Orthodox rabbis, including the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Ha Rav Dovid Lau, have signed a petition urging action against the ongoing Arab attacks on the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem. “The continuing Arab desecration of the Mount of Olives cemetery must no longer

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

San Diego Jews in the News: May 9, 2014

Editor’s Note:  This is a new column about newsworthy members of San Diego County’s Jewish community.  We’ll draw our accounts from local print, broadcast and Internet media, adding tidbits now and then from our own store of knowledge.  The names of  people we know  are Jewish community members will appear in boldface type. SAN DIEGO – Two Jewish

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Congress celebrates likely prospect of awarding Israel’s President Shimon Peres the Congressional Gold Medal

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Dozens of Congressmen, Senators and Jewish community leaders gathered on Wednesday, May 7, to celebrate the Jewish American Heritage Month in the ornate LBJ Room of the US Capitol. The annual event, organized by The Friedlander group, highlighted the work of 5 individuals who were chosen as honorees for their

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Middle East, USA

Vandals deface Jerusalem church

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Vandals have defaced a church in Jerusalem just a few weeks before Pope Francis visits the Holy Land. Israel Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said anti-Christian graffiti had been discovered on the outside wall of the church on Friday morning. The graffiti read “Price tag, King David is for the Jews, Jesus is garbage.” In addition,

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Middle East

Rialto Holocaust assignment ‘horribly inappropriate’

  RIALTO, California (WJC) — School district officials heresaid an assignment asking students to write an essay on whether they believe the Holocaust really happened was “horribly inappropriate”. The Rialto Unified School District made headlines when it gave eighth-graders the assignment to do some research and write an essay explaining whether they believed the Holocaust

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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education

Education research bill includes social, emotional learning

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday evening, March 8 passed bipartisan legislation – Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366) – to improve research on education programs and ensure those programs are effective in meeting national education priorities. H.R. 4366 includes language from a bill carried by U.S. Rep.

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

JNS news briefs: May 9, 2014

Obstacles ‘substantially overcome’ in Turkey-Israel normalization talks (JNS.org) Obstacles have been “substantially overcome” in negotiations to restore diplomatic relations between Turkey and Israel, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, Reuters reported. The talks have centered on determining a financial compensation package for the Turkish family members of the victims of the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla

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International

A trippy ‘Alice’ now playing at Grossmont College

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California –My 13-year-old grandson, Shor, and I went on a dramatic psychedelic trip on Thursday evening, May 8—not self-induced, but rather one devised by Madge Miller and directed by Jerry Hager,  the theatre arts professor and former Seaport Village mime.  Hager took Miller’s adaptation of  Lewis Carroll’s story

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Donald H. Harrison