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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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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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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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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

Japan to investigate Anne Frank book vandalism

February 23, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC praised the Japanese government’s response to the vandalism of hundreds of copies of Anne Frank’s diary in Tokyo public libraries. For decades, the Holocaust-era book has been extremely popular and widely read in Japan. “This is a shameful act and I am confident that the police authority is making

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International

Israeli Navy rescues friend and foe alike

February 23, 2014

By Yissachar Ruas OFF ISRAEL’S COASTLINE — Israel’s Navy is the IDF’s smallest branch and the least known. Israel’s navy actually predates the establishment of the State, existing as the Mossad LeAliya Bet, the Haganah’s illegal immigration organization, running ships through the British blockade in an attempt to rescue Jews from Europe and smuggle them

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Middle East

Purim appeal to help Jews of the Ukraine

February 23, 2014

By Rabbi Tzvi Graetz JERUSALEM–As the news from Kiev, Ukraine worsens and grows more violent, we have spoken with our Masorti/Conservative Rabbi Reuven Stamov and his wife Lena who are in Israel for a short visit. Their two young daughters are still in Ukraine but are staying with their grandmother outside of the city. As

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International

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 3-4, Part 3

February 23, 2014

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Adventures in SD History

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 4, 1957, Part 2

February 22, 2014

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Some issues are meant to preserve status quo

February 22, 2014

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Sari Nusseibeh, the Palestinian public intellectual, activist and president of Al Quds University, paraphrases in his memoir, Once Upon a Country (p. 446), what he wrote in 2001: The average Israeli sought security and a Jewish state, and the average Palestinian sought freedom from occupation. There was an astoundingly simple

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Middle East

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

Japan to investigate Anne Frank book vandalism

Israeli Navy rescues friend and foe alike

Purim appeal to help Jews of the Ukraine

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 3-4, Part 3

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 4, 1957, Part 2

Some issues are meant to preserve status quo

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