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Rainbow Health Consulting, Florida’s leading expert in LGBTQ+ healthcare education, provides diversity and inclusion education for healthcare providers around issues of LGBTQ+ health, a topic only touched upon by most healthcare providers. “Our specialists ensure that your organization’s practitioners will immediately feel at ease in our seminars and workshops, which will translate into better healthcare outcomes for your LGBTQ+ patients,” said CEO Samantha Kaminsky, who together with her wife, Dr. Jan Kaminsky, PHD, RN, founded the consult...
(JNS)-Nothing really prepares you for the Smoky smile and the twinkle in an eye undimmed by nearly a century on earth. And when Harold "Smoky" Simon grins at you, it's hard to remember that, at 99, the man is one of a dwindling club: the heroes of Israel's War of Independence. "Unhappily, that's true," he says in an accent reflecting his South African roots. "We were an endangered species, but now even that is sadly coming to an end." Simon went on to help found not only the infant country's air...
Broward County, Florida commission passes anti-Israel boycott resolution By Marcy Oster (JTA)—A county commission in southeastern Florida unanimously passed a resolution opposing the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. The Broward County Commission passed the resolution at a meeting on Sept. 24. The commission said in the four-page resolution that it “opposes the BDS movement targeting Israel, including all efforts to delegitimize the state of Israel and efforts to target United States companies that are engaged in legal...
(JTA)—Two reports of anti-Semitic bullying at schools in Australia are receiving widespread media coverage. A photo that allegedly shows a 12-year-old Jewish student being forced to kneel to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate was circulated on social media. The incident occurred at the Cheltenham Secondary College in the town of Cheltenham, a Melbourne suburb, according to The Age, a Melbourne-based newspaper. The report did not make it clear if the Muslim boy’s religion had anything to do with the incident. A second incident took place at...
