American group grants $600,000 for Israeli cancer research

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Professor Varda Shoshan-Barmatz has been awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant from the U.S. Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to develop target-specific, anti-cancer drugs. Professor Shoshan-Barmatz, the Hyman Kreitman Chair in Bioenergetics at BGU, has developed a peptide that targets and kills cancer cells while sparing […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Israeli commentator Barry Rubin to lecture Oct. 14 in La Jolla

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — A free lecture about Israel’s struggle for peace and legitimacy will feature Middle East expert, Professor Barry Rubin, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14,  at the Sherwood Auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Rubin is the Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center at the Interdisciplinary

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Middle East

Klezmer and Afro-Cuban percussion to mix in Oct. 12 concert

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)– Klezmer authority Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi will give a jazz concert mixing Yiddish, klezmer, jazz improvization and Afro-Cuban percussion at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12,  in the Saville Theatre on the campus of San Diego City College. Performers will include Jeff Pekarek on bass, Fred Benedetti on guitar, Tripp Sprague on

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Travel and Food

'Crazy Love' author to address Project SARAH luncheon

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Project SARAH (Stop Abusive Relationships At Home), a program of Jewish Family Service, will feature Leslie Morgan Steiner, New York Times bestselling author and columnist for the Washington Post at the Glatt Kosher Luncheon and Program recognizing Domestic Violence Awareness Month.  The event takes place at Congregation Beth Am, 5050 Del Mar

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Hillary Clinton and Nasser Judeh upbeat about peace process

AMMAN, Jordan (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh met with the news media on Thursday to discuss the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. FOREIGN MINISTER JUDEH: (In progress) here in Amman today. Secretary Clinton is a longtime friend of Jordan, a distinguished and remarkable international

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Middle East

Moonlight closes season with strong ‘Miss Saigon’

By Carol Davis VISTA, California –Every now and then it’s good to look back and reflect on the deeds and actions in which our country has been involved. There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned tragedy to bring us to our senses, or not. Take for example Puccini’s  “Madama Butterfly” and Claude-Michael Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Mechanical engineering, studying chipped teeth, may determine what mammalian ancestors ate

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Were our early mammalian ancestors vegetarians, vegans or omnivores? It’s difficult for anthropologists to determine the diet of early mammalians because current fossil analysis provides too little information. But a new method that measures the size of chips in tooth fossils can help determine the kinds of foods these early humans

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Israeli archaelogists unearth depictions of Greek deities at Sussita

SUSSITA NATIONAL PARK, Israel (Press Release) — A wall painting (fresco) of Tyche, the Greek goddess of fortune, was exposed during the 11th season of excavation at the Sussita site, on the east shore of the Sea of Galilee, which was conducted by researchers of the University of Haifa. Another female figure was found during this

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Commentary: U.S. Mideast record not comforting close to the action

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–After doubtful claims of success in Iraq, and clearer failure in Afghanistan, the United States is tackling the problematical task of picking the good guys in Yemen. Maybe not the good guys. Hopefully the best guys, or those who score least bad on the score of unreliability. Or more likely, those who

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Mitchell: Mideast talks 'serious and substantive'

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — U.S. Middle East Envoy George Mitchell met with journalists on Wednesday, September 15, in Jerusalem, and provided the following information: MITCHELL: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize for the delay, but it’s the result of the fact that a serious and substantive discussion is well underway. The trilateral discussion this evening

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Middle East, USA