By Liat Amarant and Izi Silverstein TEL AVIV — In Israel, everyone’s eyes are on conflict. Politics and social life become muddled together in a constant hyper-vigilance toward issues of security, borders, and ideologies toward a Jewish State. With eyes focused outwards, a community with similar pressing concerns of safety is slipping through the cracks, […]
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Middle East, The World We ShareIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands An unfortunate and dangerous commonality persists among conversations concerning human-driven climate change. Often, the consequences of climate change are spoken of as something that will take place in the future, something that is decades from now. Naively, many even talk as if it is something that is
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (Press Release)– Building on the global success and momentum of Character Day 2015, in which hundreds of thousands participated and viewed the films The Making of a Mensch and The Adaptable Mind, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s nonprofit Let it Ripple this year will broaden the initiative’s reach that uses film and discussion
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Jewish Religion, The World We Share, USANews of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Palau FAO Port State Measures Agreement set to become binding law Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing is about to become much more difficult thanks to the imminent entry into force of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), a ground-breaking international accord championed by FAO. Now that
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The World We ShareNews of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Nauru More than a billion people living in low-lying coastal areas around the world could be at risk of climate change-induced rise in sea levels by 2060, British charity group Christian Aid warned in a new report. Most of the cities at risk of coastal flooding are
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International, The World We ShareIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands Another month, another new record — for rising temperatures. The latest NASA data reveals that April was the warmest month ever recorded on Earth. The new record marks the 12th consecutive month of record-high global temperatures, as the scientific consensus remains that human activity is contributing to
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International, The World We ShareLet There be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel; Thomas Dunne Book, 2015. 352 pp. $27.99 By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — This book will make you cry. Or stamp your feet or beat your head against a wall. The narrative is familiar. Israel, a (once) poor country in the middle of an
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, The World We ShareNews 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