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October 16, 2013

New diabetes hope with AAT therapy

Israeli researcher Eli Lewis never forgot how a childhood friend with diabetes repeatedly injected himself with insulin shots.

Teen trio wins anti-bullying contest

Bullying occurs regularly in classrooms and on playgrounds to children and teenagers throughout the world. Cyberbullying on smart phones and social media is more hidden and harder to detect.

Poem: Alphabets

I have always believed in the alchemy of letters\n but never in their permanence.

Tony Mendez, the real-life ‘Argo’

Tony Mendez is no longer a spy for the CIA, but the qualities that helped make him one of the best — his wit and unassuming personality — were on full display Oct. 8 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, at an event hosted by 30 Years After, a local Iranian-American Jewish group.

Judaism in Poland: It’s Warsaw, Jake

You would think that when the Polish edition of Forbes, the internationally respected financial magazine, publishes a front-page exposé on the disappearance of tens of millions of dollars of Holocaust restitution funds, Jews everywhere would be outraged and demand an immediate, independent investigation.

Why be Jewish?

It seems the recent Pew poll is all the Jewish community can talk about, and most of the conversation is a doom-and-gloom perseverance on the possible extinction of Judaism. I’ve heard much moaning, a fair measure of denial and a handful of creative “solutions.”

Congress ends default threat, Obama signs debt bill

Congress approved an 11th-hour deal to end a partial government shutdown and pull the world\’s biggest economy back from the brink of a historic debt default that could have threatened financial calamity on Wednesday.

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