TECATE, California — Holocaust concentration camp survivor Rose Schindler traveled from her home in San Diego to Tecate, a town that sits on the U.S-Mexico border in the eastern portion of San Diego County, on Thursday, March 8 to share her experiences with students at the Tecate Christian School. “She was amazing and touched many hearts, both […]
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Two men, one in a suit and the other in a sweater, sit side by side in folding chairs in a small auditorium. They are listening to an unseen speaker introducing a new inductee to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. As the speaker finishes, the man in
By Miri Horwich-Fried PETACH TIKVAH, Israel–Doing for others was my game plan. About four years ago, at age 33, I completed my doctoral work on diabetes. A resident of Petach Tivkah and mother of three, I sought a new direction. By “chance,” I heard about a lab researching cancer immunology, headed by Dr. Cyril Cohen,
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Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA (Press Release)– A new program at the University of Haifa will train students to be unofficial “ambassadors” for Israel on the Internet. The students will learn how to confront the delegitimization of Israel that is present on the World Wide Web and on social networks in particular. “Many Israelis don’t know how to respond to
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Representatives of the Sami minority in Norway came to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem earlier this month to learn how Hebrew is taught to students from around the world. Their goal is to apply similar teaching methods to revitalize the endangered Sami languages so they can pass them on to future generations.
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Matt Quijas CAMP PENDLETON, California–Marines and sailors stationed here are devoting this week to honoring service members injured in combat from all over the world; this is a great opportunity for them to showcase their new facility for Wounded Warriors. An international assemblage of Wounded Warriors gathered Feb.13 to kick off this year’s Marine
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Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Almost a decade after suspending its study abroad opportunities for students wanting to study in Israel, California State University has reinstated the program and chosen the University of Haifa as its location of its study abroad students in Israel. The Cal State Study Abroad Program is being reinstated in Israel
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Although I have written about this topic before, I have some further thoughts that I would like to now share. After my husband died, I had a very hard time adjusting to singlehood. Although living in a retirement community helped me survive those awful first months, I
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Yael Rotlevy PETACH TIKVAH, Israel — I am a woman, mother, daughter, sister, pre-school teacher – and a victim of cancer. Anyone spotting me in a crowd would never guess. He surely would think to himself – a young mother, hair cut into a stylish, short bob, spending the summer vacation with her husband
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Science, Medicine, & EducationORANIT, Israel (Press Release) — Below is a letter written by Rivka Sandomirsky who mentored a child who was very, very sick with cancer. Through the course of her illness, the child became totally paralyzed and then gradually faded away. She was five years old when she died in July. In the beginning she was
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Science, Medicine, & EducationPETACH TIKVAH, Israel (Press Release) — Sigal Ered and her camera were siamese twins. Her camera never left her hands. Photography was her career. Photography was her love. And for dessert, she engaged in sports. Sigal’s life was full, until the day it all stopped. Here is her story in her own words: “I’ll never
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Joyce Schur CHICAGO — Protecting the welfare of our children supersedes the need to be considered their best-buddy. John Kass, a much admired feature columnist for the Chicago Tribune, recently wrote an article on the Penn State sex predator scandal, titled “Thankful to be the Worst Mom in the World”. It was a response to
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — I keep thinking about the heretofore anonymous suffering of the boys—now men—who live still in the legal and social shadows of the crimes allegedly committed upon them by “mentoring” role models at more than one major university. “Penn State” has become a another metaphor for heinous pedophiliac misconduct;
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