News of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau. Leaders from over 170 nations gathered in New York last month to sign a historic climate pact that aims to keep the rise in global temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — an internationally-accepted red line. However, for […]
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Sophie was the perfect walking ad for the annual San Diego Humane Society’s Walk for Animals, held this year on May 7th. With her stylish visor, and SDHS commemorative T-shirt on, she posed for pictures with her proud parents looking on. Actually, there were tons of stylish doggies having
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Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, The World We ShareIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau: WASHINGTON, May 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In an unprecedented global call to action, more than 50 countries have agreed to co-sponsor one or more of the proposals to nominate all species of thresher shark, the silky shark, and all species of mobula ray
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A mysterious virus that has decimated tilapia fish stocks in Ecuador and Israel has finally been identified by an international team of scientists. The virus, dubbed tilapia lake virus, was long suspected to be behind mass die offs of valuable farmed tilapia in Ecuador and Israel since 2009. In a paper published in the journal
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We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own-a republic of the rootless-it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of more than 240 million people. Though much has been written about how a world on
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International, Middle East, The World We ShareBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Some people seem to be wired to like variety, novelty, change from routine. Others seem to prefer the status quo, the predictable, the familiar. To some extent, this is genetic, but it is also influenced by the multitude of experiences we have been subjected to in our
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Natasha Josefowitz, The World We ShareBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Some twenty-five years ago our son and his wife presented us with our first grandchild. She was the center of our life and our pride and joy, and over the subsequent fifteen years she was joined by another six grandchildren, three from the same couple and three from
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — If you grew up in the 1970s (or later) and were a die-hard ”Grateful Dead” rock band fan, you probably remember how fans often called themselves “Deadheads” in the ensuing decades, and still do today. The nickname arose when a large number of fans began travelling to see
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, The World We ShareDuryan Bhagat-Clark of Aberdeen, seen with her husband Russel, will speak about her experiences growing up with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. It’s not remarkable that mixed-faith marriages are sometimes tinged with the poignancy of “Romeo and Juliet.” But they don’t always have to end tragically, or even fail, said Duryan Bhagat-Clark, who
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The World We ShareBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For Lee Schnaiberg in Montreal, global warming is no laughing matter, although the Canadian artist has a good sense of humor and the odd Yiddish phrase to make a point. I chatted with him the other day via email when he had just returned home from from his
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By Donald H. Harrison SPRING VALLEY, California – La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club honored four women on Saturday, March 5, for their advocacy in behalf of Syrian refugees, victims of sex trafficking, survivors of torture, and abused wild animals. Besides a certificate of appreciation and half the proceeds from the tea for them to donate
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Donald H. Harrison, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, The World We ShareBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Michelle Fernandez is the twentysomething daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and a Jewish father, and while in college in upstate New York she minored in Jewish studies to learn more about her dad’s heritage. She’s also very concerned about climate change issues, and as a Millennial with strong
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The World We ShareBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TARABIN, Israel — Tucked away on the edge of this village, named for the Bedouin tribe that inhabits it in southern Israel, is a farm whose sole objective is to produce camel’s milk. For that purpose some fifty female camels are kept in pens to be ‘serviced’ by a single lucky male
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, The World We Share“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.”—Charles Péguy, poet and essayist (1873–1914) By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Some things that were deemed unacceptable not long ago are considered acceptable today. Other things were acceptable until recently, but are now perceived
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