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Rabbi Yossi Mintz, co-founder of Friendship Foundation, and Nina Patel, the foundation’s managing director, hold a rendering of a $36 million complex designed to help people with special needs integrate into society. The facility is expected to be complete by 2022. Photo by JP Cordero
Rabbi Yossi Mintz, co-founder of Friendship Foundation, and Nina Patel, the foundation’s managing director, hold a rendering of a $36 million complex designed to help people with special needs integrate into society. The facility is expected to be complete by 2022. Photo by JP Cordero
Twelve years ago, Rabbi Yossi Mintz had a dream.
Mintz, the founder and director of the Jewish Community Center Chabad of the South Bay, envisioned a state-of-the-art facility where cutting-edge research, technology, and expertise would help people with special needs carve pathways into society.
The Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved an emergency loan program to help small businesses struggling to stay afloat through the pandemic.
The program will allocate $250,000, drawn from the city’s general fund reserves, which will be disbursed in $10,000 loans to businesses that employ 50 people or fewer. Highest priority will be given to independently owned businesses that have been closed due to COVID-19, and then to independent businesses that have been restricted due to the pandemic.
Councilperson Steve Napolitano said the city had to take action because the federal government has failed to do so.
“This isn’t just some well-intentioned program to make us feel good and get our names out there,” Napolitano said. “This is about supporting the businesses that we know and love and want to stay in business. We’re stepping in the shoes of what others should be doing and they’re not. The federal government should have another stimulu
Molecular Underpinnings of Memory Now Better Understood
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December 10, 2020
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Neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School (HMS) believe they have taken a decisive step in the quest to understand the biology of long-term memory and find ways to intervene when memory deficits occur with age or disease. In an article, “Bidirectional perisomatic inhibitory plasticity of a
Nature, they describe a newly identified mechanism that neurons in the adult mouse hippocampus use to regulate signals they receive from other neurons, in a process that appears critical for memory consolidation and recall.
The study was led by Lynn Yap, HMS graduate student in neurobiology, and Michael Greenberg, PhD, the HMS Nathan Marsh Pusey professor of neurobiology, chair of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, and study corresponding author.
Friendship Foundation To Develop 3.25-Acre, All-Inclusive Campus for Special Needs Student Development Beyond High School
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With complete community integration in mind, new Friendship Campus will have programs in creative, technical and culinary arts, job training, life skills, social-emotional wellness, mentoring and more
Rendering of Friendship Foundation’s new Campus. PC: Gensler
“We hope to create a gold standard program serving teens and young adults to find their passion beyond high school,” REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (PRWEB) December 16, 2020
Friendship Foundation, dedicated to elevating the lives of those with special needs for 15 years, announced today its plan to develop a 3.25-acre state-of-the-art education Friendship Campus in Redondo Beach to better serve special needs students and the broader community beyond high school. Almost 200,000 students are enrolled in special education in Lo