Cockroaches, caterpillars, locusts are models for future robots

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Ask anyone who has ever tried to squash a skittering cockroach — they’re masters of quick and precise movement. Now Tel Aviv University is using their maddening locomotive skills to improve robotic technology too. Prof. Amir Ayali of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology says the study of cockroaches has […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education

5 American students switch overseas studies from Cairo to Haifa

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Five American students from Elon University in South Carolina who had just arrived in Cairo on an international student exchange program, escaped the riots in Egypt to safety at the University of Haifa. “Until just a few days ago, I never thought I’d find myself in Israel. Now I am happy to

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Middle East

Facebook frequency can lower adolescent’s self-image

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–The more time adolescent girls spend in front of Facebook, the more their chances of developing a negative body image and various eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia and exaggerated dieting. This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa. Eating disorders include a wide spectrum of abnormal

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Travel and Food

A bissel this, a bissel that–San Diego Jewish news and chatter

  (Column 16, February 7, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison ____________________ Spotlight: Debra Kamin ____________________ The former editor of San Diego Jewish Journal, Debra Kamin, is preparing to make aliyah to Israel, where she will become a member of the staff of the Jerusalem Post.  She writes: “I’ve always wanted to live in Israel,

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Donald H. Harrison

Up close, the Talmis are family dedicated to music, social causes

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — For three nights, during our visit to Israel last December, my daughter Harriet, son-in-law Danny and I were guests in the Kfar Saba duplex apartment of Er’ella and Yoav Talmi.  Our friendship, dating back to Yoav’s years as Music Director of the San Diego Symphony, prompted the wonderful home hospitality.

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Eileen Wingard

Book on Begin-Sadat correspondence provides timely background to events in Egypt

Peace in the Making: the Menachem Begin-Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence, edited by Harry Hurwitz and Yisrael Medad, Gefen Publishing House, 2011, ISBN 978-9656-229-456-2,  349 pages including appendices and footnotes, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—It is hard not to feel wistful while reading this correspondence, which began with such hope, and then became

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Donald H. Harrison

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview ‘Born to Fly’

Born To Fly, 2009, 67 min. Hebrew, French, & English with English subtitles throughout. Directed by Uri Borreda, Produced by Yaakov Shem Tov, Uri Borreda. By Yiftach Levy SANTEE, California –In the mid-1960s, Danny Shapira, already Israel’s most accomplished military test pilot, had a special flightsuit custom-sewn for him so he could fly an experimental

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 14, 1955, Part 2

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff For Your Pleasure Southwestern Jewish Press, October 14, 1955, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman Success Story – A man who has the nerve to try his wings, without knowing for certain whether he will fly or fall, is always a hero to his friends when he makes good. 

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Calls for Mubarak’s ouster prove having U.S. as an ally no assurance of friendship

By Lloyd Levy LONDON –Events in Egypt highlight what seems to my mind to be the incomprehensible naivete of the U.S. Administration in its Middle East policy. The Egyptian Government has been the object of a well planned coup , using the very modern and ingenious method of stage managing a “revolution,” in a large

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, October 14, 1955, Part 1

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Pledge Payments Needed Now To Help Save North African Jews Southwestern Jewish Press, October 14, 1955, Page 1 $12,500 was forwarded to the United Jewish Appeal this week. The United Jewish Fund Board of Directors issues an urgent appeal for contributors to pay their pledges immediately so that

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