CONGRATS to Sydney Roberts, youngest swimmer ever to swim Bonifacio Strait from Sardinia to Corsica!
Lisa Ellen Niver
February 23, 2022
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training
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Aaron Bandler
April 9, 2018
Push your brain and your body, says sports physician and author Jordan Metzl
Jewish Journal
July 3, 2012
When I was growing up in the 1960s in Skokie, Ill., reading was the main sport in my family. I’m pretty sure it was also the main sport in most families in my predominantly Jewish neighborhood: Neither my friends nor I ever heard the phrase “traveling soccer team” cross our parents’ lips.
‘Lone wolf’ gunmen are security puzzle for West
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2012
The possibility that a killing rampage by a French gunman was a solo campaign will inject fresh urgency into Western efforts to detect \”self-starter\” or \”lone wolf\” terrorists before they strike.
IsraAID opens training program in South Sudan
Jewish Journal
March 7, 2012
The Israeli nongovernmental organization IsraAID opened a training program to deal with gender-based violence for social workers in the fledgling country of South Sudan.
Classes bring a bit of shul to yoga
Jewish Journal
June 28, 2011
In a dimly lit room overlooking Santa Monica’s bustling Third Street Promenade, prayers set to electronic music float between bodies in motion. Barely audible over the melodies are the deep exhales of students.
Mind, body and sole
Orit Arfa
June 28, 2011
The Grinberg Method, named for its Israeli founder, Avi Grinberg, is described as “a structured way of teaching through the body.” But a better way to explain it is through an example. Let’s take a universal source of anxiety that most women can relate to: waiting for the guy to call after a date.
LAPD bomb squad officers to train in Israel
Ryan Torok
March 9, 2011
Four Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) bomb squad technicians are visiting Israel to train with their counterparts in the Israeli National Police Bomb Squad. Ronald Capra, an LAPD bomb squad officer who will accompany three other officers for the training, said LAPD’s “exposure to local [Israeli] bomb units” will help the LAPD learn more about how to handle and dispose of explosive devices, given Israeli technicians’ experience with suicide attacks.
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