Expert on Israeli media to lecture Nov. 22 in Carlsbad

CARLSBAD,  California (Press Release)–The Agency for Jewish Education continues its monthly Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies, a new lecture series in Carlsbad, with Professor Oren Meyers of the University of Haifa. Meyers’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Nov. 22 at 7:00 pm. His lecture is titled, […]

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

J Street ‘profoundly disappointed’ by new construction in East Jerusalem

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami on Monday, Nov. 8,  released the following statement upon the Israeli Government’s announcement of the construction of 1,300 new apartments in East Jerusalem: “J Street is profoundly disappointed that the Israeli government has chosen this moment to announce yet another large round of construction in East Jerusalem.

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Middle East

Israeli Fat Sand Rats prove ideal for testing effects of light deprivation on depression

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Saying goodbye to summer can be difficult for everybody. In some people the onset of winter triggers Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, a mood disorder in which sufferers experience symptoms of depression. Happily, a special kind of gerbil exhibits remarkably similar reactions to SAD treatments as humans, opening a promising

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Science, Medicine, & Education

‘Celebrate Balanchine’ program an artistic credit for City Ballet

    By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — City Ballet of San Diego’s “Celebrate Balanchine” program on November 7, 2010 was an ambitious endeavor – not flawless – but another notch in the Company’s escutcheon of accomplishments. The Company is still based in the historic jewel box of a theatre, The Spreckels; however, the exigencies

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Travel and Food

Is your preschooler ‘fearless’? It could be in the genes

HAIFA (Press Release)–Preschool-aged children who demonstrate fearless behavior also reveal less empathy and more aggression towards their peers. This has been shown in a new study that was carried out at the University of Haifa’s Faculty of Education. “The results of this study show that fearless behavior in children can be identified and is related

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Life on the boundary of a Jewish neighborhood and an Arab one

 By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Living alongside the Arab neighborhood of Issawiya has its moments. Items from the weekend’s news: Israelis accompanying an Australian tourist made a wrong turn into the neighborhood, and narrowly escaped a lynching. In another incident, neighborhood folks stoned an ambulance that entered the area to tend a resident who had been injured

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

San Diego Jewish Book Fair: Nazarian tells of a childhood caught between two cultures

By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, California– In her new book, Life As A Visitor, Angella Nazarian, a Jew, recounts leaving her native land of Iran at age eleven with her mother and older sister to visit her two brothers in Los Angeles for presumably a two-week visit because of the violent 1979 Iranian Revolution. Because

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Travel and Food

Hoffinger shines in ‘Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins at Diversionary

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO- -It isn’t often that we get a chance to see a young, up and coming actor who is still in school and has time to perform, and perform well. How fortunate for us then that Dylan Hoffinger, a freshman at the School of Creative and Performing Arts (as a musical

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Attack on Baghdad Church part of pattern of Muslim hostility towards Christians

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Christians in Iraq have been, and not for the first time, deliberately targeted in a major terrorist attack. Indeed, from Indonesia to Pakistan to Iraq, from the Gaza Strip to Egypt to Sudan to Nigeria, Christians are being assaulted, intimidated, and murdered by militant Muslims. Yet virtually never do

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Middle East

Israel may be in for a period of international calm

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We have had worse days. The not so friendly United Nations published its Human Development Index, ranking  Israel number 15 among 169 countries. Norway is number 1 and the United States number 4. Israel scores higher than such decent places as Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Austria, and the United

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

San Diego Jewish Academy fifth graders send protest letters to TIME

SAN DIEGO – When fifth grade teacher Shani Abed of San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) shared with her two fifth grade classes the September 14 cover of Time Magazine displaying a daisy chain Star of David and the headline “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace,” it caused some strong reactions among her students.  “Many students

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