Donald H. Harrison

Breast feeding may ward off children’s ADHD

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — We know that breastfeeding has a positive impact on child development and health — including protection against illness. Now researchers from Tel Aviv University have shown that breastfeeding could also help protect against Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most commonly diagnosed neurobehavioral disorder in children and adolescents. Seeking to determine

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Science, Medicine, & Education

An idealistic look at politics from an Australian friend of Israel

By Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, Australia — The political scene in general, and politicians in particular in  most democracies have come to be seen as having lost any semblance of any idealism, and young people have turned away from becoming involved in the broader political life of their countries in any meaningful way. Yes we have

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Travel and Food

Chief rabbinate politics as nasty as those in the Knesset

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There are times when there are too many Jews in the Jewish country. Or maybe just too many rabbis. Currently we are approaching the culmination of a messy election to the Chief Rabbinate that reveals–along with a couple of other issues simultaneously bothering us–that Judaism would profit from a clean

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

JNS news briefs: July 23, 2013

Dutch Aldi supermarkets deny ban on products made beyond pre-1967 lines (JNS.org) The Netherlands branch of the German supermarket chain Aldi has disavowed comments it made in support of a ban on products made in territories acquired by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Both the Dutch branch of Aldi and another chain, Hoogvliet, had

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International

JNS news briefs: July 22, 2013

Abbas: ‘All options are open’ if peace talks fail (JNS.org) Amid the push by Secretary of State John Kerry towards restarting negotiations, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted in an interview with the Jordanian daily Al Ra’i as saying that if there is no progress in peace talks, “all options are open.” “If there

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International