Approximately 550 members and friends of the Jewish community on Saturday evening, Nov. 16, attended a dinner sponsored by the Jewish Federation of San Diego that was dedicated to helping people in southern Israel to rebuild after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre and to providing Holocaust education here in San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]
More than 120 organizational partners across the country will join Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU) for its third annual “Ben-Gurion Day in the USA” on December 8. This year’s event offers a special message of resilience and unity in the face of adversity, and is rooted in the increasingly relevant vision of Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. [Press Release]
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San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will hold a half-hour-long Product Gallery Walk on Monday, Nov. 4, beginning at 8:45 a.m. SDJA high school students will walk 3rd grade students through the gallery to highlight how products are conceptualized and designed. [Press Release)
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Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the National Museum in Copenhagen analyzed 450 pottery vessels made in Tel Hama, a town at the edge of the Ebla Kingdom, one of the most important Syrian kingdoms in the Early Bronze Age (about 4,500 years ago), and found that two-thirds of the pottery vessels were made by children, starting at the ages of seven and eight. [Press Release]
Hezbollah, a group known for its terrorist activities, found itself targeted in a series of attacks in Lebanon. Twin blasts involving rigged pagers and walkie-talkies killed dozens and injured thousands, including Hezbollah fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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Israel, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, TechnologyResearchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in cooperation with three major Israeli medical centers have developed a new method for detecting protein aggregation in cells, a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease. The technology can enable diagnosis up to 20 years before the first motor symptoms appear, facilitating treatment or even prevention of the severe disease, which is currently incurable. [Press Release]
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Why is Rosh Hashanah so “late” this year? I have many memories of Rosh Hashanah occurring around going back-to-school and the end of summer. But some years it starts in October. Some Jewish years are leap years, in which an entire extra month is added to the calendar. This can result in certain Jewish holidays coming much later than in non-leap years. [Cailin Acosta]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Cailin Acosta, Israel, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Technology, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTracking changes in pupil size can help identify a state of wakefulness in sleep, anesthesia, and intensive care and help track the depth of sedation, detect seizures and nightmares, and recognize pain or responsiveness that may occur after trauma and in intensive care departments. The researchers say that this technology has strong potential to become an important tool in clinical care. [Press Release]
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Doctoral student Oded Rotem, under the guidance of Prof. Assaf Zaritsky from the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, developed a computational method, called DISCOVER, to reverse engineer AI by breaking down an image into semantically meaningful components through which the AI makes its decision. [Press Release]
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Israel, Press Release, Science, Medicine, & Education, TechnologyAs the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre approaches, San Diego’s Jewish community’s programming and thoughts focus on the people of Southern Israel, in particular those of Sha’ar Hanegev, San Diego’s Sister City which was ravaged in the attacks. [Cailin Acosta]
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Courtesy of Wikipedia Sergey Brin (August 21, 1973) is an American businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders, and board members. As of June 2024, Brin is
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With a friend, software engineer Austin Weisgrau, whom he met in his high school B’nai B’rith chapter, Lantry decided to research whether tefillin – the phylacteries which observant Jews utilize in morning prayer – could be made from plants instead of animal hides. [Donald H. Harrison]
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In the late 1970s, when no one thought it could be possible, Dov Raviv, a Technion alumnus, had a fantastical idea for a defensive weapon that could intercept and shoot down long-range incoming missiles. The idea developed into what would become the Arrow Antimissile System, the world’s first missile defense platform, and what would protect Israel from Iran’s missile barrage on April 13, 2024. [Press Release]
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The local initiatives that emerge from the intensive personal and community analyses are strongly associated with sustainability because they reflect the objectives of the participants. [Yossef Ben-Meir]