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Study: Diabetes Prevention Act would save billions

February 24, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – A cost estimate commissioned by the American Diabetes Association, the YMCA of the USA, and the American Medical Association showed that the bipartisan Medicare Diabetes Prevention Act (H.R. 962), introduced by Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego), would reduce federal spending by $1.3 billion. “This bill is a win-win in that […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education

AJC’s Harris: We rejoice with Ukrainians

February 24, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC welcomes the historic events in Ukraine, which have captured the world’s imagination and underscored the yearning for freedom and a new direction for the people of this country. AJC Executive Director David Harris, who has visited Ukraine many times and been honored by the Western-oriented government of President Viktor Yushchenko,

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International

New sugar-coated drugs fight cancer cells longer

February 24, 2014

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Ovarian cancer accounts for more deaths of American women than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. According to the American Cancer Society, one in 72 American women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and one in 100 will ultimately die of the condition. Now Prof. Dan Peer of

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Science, Medicine, & Education

The Menschkins

February 24, 2014

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Trivia, Humor & Satire

JNS news briefs: February 24, 2014

February 24, 2014

Iran ‘handing out torches to pyromaniacs’ on all fronts, IDF chief says (JNS.org) For Israel, there is “no front where Iran is not involved, handing out torches to pyromaniacs, with munitions and rockets,” Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told reporters during a tour of the Golan Heights on Sunday. Commenting

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International

Why there’s a new edition of Jewish baseball cards

February 24, 2014

NEWTON, Massachusetts (Press Release)– The seventh edition of Jewish Major Leaguer Baseball Cards – a 50-card set largely focused on events in baseball involving Jewish players over the last four years, will be released on March 15. The 2010 edition, the fifth update, was thought to be the last. But popular demand, contributions and encouragement

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USA

Clinical study is promising for Type 1 diabetes patients

February 24, 2014

DENVER, Colorado (Press Release)– A clinical study on a promising treatment for Type 1 diabetes developed by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher in collaboration with the University of Colorado Health Science Center had an “exceptional outcome” after an eight-week treatment of Alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT). According to the study published in the Journal of

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Travel and Food

Muslims, Jews see the world differently

February 24, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israelis have been seeking accommodation for decades, depending on when you start counting, first with Arabs and later with Palestinians. It is common, and perhaps justified, for Israelis and our friends to blame the Arabs for intransigence as well as violence. That is a cultural perspective, one that sees Israelis with

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

2 U.S. Reps. hold Town Hall in Israel

February 24, 2014

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–The town hall meeting, unique to New England’s traditional style of local citizen governance, made its way to Jerusalem when two US Congressmen visited Israel’s capital to discuss ‘local’ issues with U.S. citizens recently. U.S. Congressmen Bill Johnson (R-OH) and David McKinley (R-WV) took part in a historic town hall meeting with

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Middle East

Alice Herz Sommer, Holocaust survivor, pianist

February 24, 2014

LONDON (WJC)- -Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor and a renowned concert pianist, died in London at the age of 110.She was born in 1903 into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague at a time when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and endured the city’s ghetto following the Gernan

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 18, 1957, Part 1

February 24, 2014

Attention Family Historians: If you would like a JPG photo copy from the Southwestern Jewish Press of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website, simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5

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Adventures in SD History

Jewish Caucus becomes official legislative body

February 23, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– On as yet an unspecified date in March, the Jewish Caucus, now numbering nine legislators, formally will be welcomed by other caucuses as an official body of the California State Legislature, according to State Senator Marty Block, the San Diego Democrat who founded the new organization. The Jewish Caucus

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Donald H. Harrison

Kamin on Interfaith panel on Dr. King

February 23, 2014

OCEANSIDE, Californa (SDJW) — Rabbi Ben Kamin, a San Diego Jewish World contributor who has written several books on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, will discuss King’s influence on religious communities at noon Thursday, Feb. 27, in the Conference Rooms of the Student Center on the MiraCosta College campus

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San Diego County

Scholar examines myths about Herzl

February 23, 2014

Georges Yitshak Weisz, Theodor Herzl: A New Reading, Gefen Publishing House, (c) 2013, ISBN: 9789652295873, 295 pages including appendices and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This is both biography and historiography of the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl. Through an examination of what previous historians have said about Herzl, Weisz provides readers with highlights of

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Donald H. Harrison

Study: Diabetes Prevention Act would save billions

AJC’s Harris: We rejoice with Ukrainians

New sugar-coated drugs fight cancer cells longer

The Menschkins

JNS news briefs: February 24, 2014

Why there’s a new edition of Jewish baseball cards

Clinical study is promising for Type 1 diabetes patients

Muslims, Jews see the world differently

2 U.S. Reps. hold Town Hall in Israel

Alice Herz Sommer, Holocaust survivor, pianist

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 18, 1957, Part 1

Jewish Caucus becomes official legislative body

Kamin on Interfaith panel on Dr. King

Scholar examines myths about Herzl

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