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(Photo by Spencer Grant) University of California Television (UCTV) is making a host of videos available on its website during this period of social distancing. Among them, with descriptions courtesy of UCTV (text written by UCTV staff): “How We Learn Vs. How We Think We Learn”: There are negative associations with the word “forget,” and we often envision ourselves as striving not to forget things. But according to Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, forgetting is actually an important component of learning and memory. In his words, “...

Going virtual for the first time, the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival isn’t missing a beat in presenting compelling dramas, suspenseful thrillers and thought-provoking documentaries. Now in its 31st year, the festival will throw in a few award winners and a bit of star power. The documentary “Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance” opens the festival, which begins Feb. 11. The film explores those shared legacies through the lens of the friendship between the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Heschel in the mid-1960s. “ ‘Shared Leg...