A new Tel Aviv University study has found that due to the temperature difference across the Mediterranean Sea, species of marine animals such as fish, crustaceans and mollusks (such as squid) are changing their habitats to live tens of meters deeper in cooler waters. [Tel Aviv University]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share
New York state Jews who live in the Bronx’s Riverdale section or Scarsdale and New Rochelle in Westchester County, not to mention their non-Jewish neighbors, almost lost their infrastructure funding thanks to their congressman, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman. He and five other so-called “progressive” Democrats would have tanked the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last Friday if not for the intervention of 13 Republicans in the House of Representatives. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, USA
A performance of ‘The Magic Flute’ in the evening led us to spend a day in Tel Aviv, enjoying the view of the sea from the restaurant on the sun-drenched promenade, partaking of the aesthetic delights on offer at the Tel Aviv Museum (including the delicious cakes in the coffee-shop there) and ending with a highly innovative performance of the opera. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — On November 10, StandWithUs, along with Jessica Shafran and Raphi Cooper, current students attending the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and Silberman alumna Morr Mazal Barton, submitted a complaint against the Silberman School and Hunter College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Shoshana Grossbard, a respected economist who serves as editor in chief of the Review of Economics of the Household, has urged Acting U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman and San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan to look into the circumstances surrounding the domination of the nonprofit Friendship Circle of San Diego (FCSD) by the family of disgraced Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of Chabad of Poway. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The biblical story of the flood during the days of Noah raises many questions, especially about divine punishments, and the answers help us to understand how to interpret biblical events. Some of the questions are: Why did divine punishments vary in delivery? Some examples are as
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) The Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command has recently practiced the evacuation of a hospital in northern Israel under a heavy missile attack during a simulated war in order to create space in the hospital for treating wounded civilians and military members. The drill was conducted as part of the Home
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Middle East
Published by DPA A new Holocaust memorial in Vienna commemorating the Jews from Austria murdered by the Nazis was inaugurated on Tuesday. The 64,440 names are inscribed on 160 granite tablets placed in an oval in a park near the University of Vienna. Tuesday marks the anniversary of the Nazi pogroms in 1938 known as
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International
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. Ever since the 1950s when Albert Ellis, Ph.D., an early teacher and mentor of mine, developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy/Coaching, the mental health field has not been the same. Thankfully. Instead of spending months and even years gazing inward and backward with no real behavior change in sight, folks experiencing
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Lifestyles, Michael Mantell
By William Daroff (JNS) This week, Jewish communities around the world remember the 83rd anniversary of Pogromnacht (Kristallnacht), when the Nazis and their supporters carried out an anti-Jewish pogrom throughout Germany, decimating thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, neighborhoods and synagogues, and forcing as many as 30,000 Jews into concentration camps, never to return. Authorities sanctioned and
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International, USA
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — Top federal environmental regulators in California laid out a $630-million plan on Monday to capture and treat sewage-tainted water that routinely flows over the border from Tijuana into Imperial Beach and up the coast. The blueprint focuses largely on installing a pumping system in the Tijuana
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San Diego County
This Young Adult novel focuses on the friendship between Eleanor (Leni) Greenberg, who is Jewish, and Chanel (Nelly) Irons, who is African-American. Although they are members of different religious and racial groups, the two have been fast friends since childhood. However, the friendship comes under stress during their senior year of high school when Leni is chosen as the team’s captain, even after being out most of the previous year with an injury, and Chanel, a natural leader of the team in the interim, has been passed over. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison
By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Having just finished reading Suzanne Simard’s book, Finding the Mother Tree, I was bowled over by the ability of trees to communicate with each other through a microbial networks. The Mother Tree is in reality an old tree in the forest who is needed by younger
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Lifestyles, Natasha JosefowitzBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. In this week’s parasha we learn about the psychology of living life well, that is, how to strengthen our character. This includes a) reinforcing our spirituality and b) intensifying our commitment to a strong work ethic, two areas of contemporary societal life that are clearly in need of improvement. וְאַתֵּנָה
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell