HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Bilinguals findit easier to learn a third language, as they gain a better aptitude for languages, a new study from the University of Haifa reveals. Prof. Salim Abu-Rabia and Ekaterina Sanitsky of the Department of Special Education, who conducted the study, set out to examine what benefits bilingualism might have in […]
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(Column 15, February 3, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison * _________________ Jewish Organizations _________________ Western States Jewish History has put San Diego’s first federal judge, the late Jacob Weinberger, on the cover of its winter edition. Judge Weinberger came to San Diego after serving as a member of the convention in Arizona responsible
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) and nine of their Senate colleagues have called on the German government to stop the Hamburg-based bank, Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), from providing financial support for Iran’s nuclear program. The Senators wrote to the German Foreign Minister expressing their concern that EIH
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – An immigration judge in Detroit has ordered John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Mich., removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied L’viv, Ukraine, announced Assistant Attorney General
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO– Losing one’s coveted view of the ocean can hardly fit into the category of a tragedy. A shame, maybe; too bad, if you aren’t sympathetic to only the privileged few having ocean views; life sucks if you are. How we act or rather react to losing something that subjective can,
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (Press Release) — Research carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that it was possible already in 2008 to predict that countries such as Egypt and Iran were headed for dangerous periods of instability because of citizens’ demands for democratization. The researchers were able to make this observation on the basis of a
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Prof. Eran Rabani of Tel Aviv University’s School of Chemistry and his colleagues at Columbia University have discovered a new quantum mechanical effect with glass-forming liquids. They’ve determined that it’s possible to melt glass — not by heating it, but by cooling it to a temperature near Absolute Zero. This new
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–You’ve had a rest from me while we have been enjoying the sights and tastes of southern France. But the world has been busy. First there was a release of hitherto secret details from al-Jazeera on Israeli-Palestinian discussions, then the publication of Ehud Olmert’s memoirs, and then the spread of upsets to
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastOSWIECIM, Poland (WJC)– A large delegation of Muslim leaders has visited Auschwitz to pay tribute to the millions of Jews and others killed in the Holocaust. The group of some 150 people included representatives from Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, as well as rabbis, Holocaust survivors and Christian representatives such as Cardinals André Vingt-Trois
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In 1978 and 1979 I followed the Iranian revolution on a daily and hourly basis. Even before the hostage crisis, recognizing the importance of this event, I began work on a book. The title? Paved with Good Intentions. This came from the expression, “The road to Hell is paved with
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Rep. Mike Honda, chair of the CPC Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force, Tuesdayy released the following statement on the political situation in Egypt: “We urge President Obama to show the international community that America will be a leading supporter of peaceful,
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Senator Jim Webb (D-Virginia) joined Senator Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) and other Senators in asking Attorney General Eric Holder to appeal a recent court ruling against the 50-year-old cross at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego. On January 4th the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the cross was an unconstitutional
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)— U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania), Chairman of the Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined a group of senators Tuesday in sending a letter calling on the top Republicans on the House appropriations and budget committees to reject a call to eliminate foreign
NEW YORK (Press Release)–B’nai B’rith International strongly urges the United Nations Security Council to reject the biased resolution recently proposed by the Palestinian Authority that would single out Israeli settlements as a focus of condemnation. If necessary, the United States should employ its veto power to defeat this harmful resolution. In previous remarks, U.S. Secretary
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