By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–The Israeli Antiquities Authority is releasing a free app for iPhones and iPads. The app, called “Dig Quest,” is meant to help kids get a feel for what archaeologists do, and experience what it is like to discover artifacts from the past. The app features two simulated dig sites – […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Once again, the Obama administration has become disturbed about Jews building homes, neglecting to pressure Palestinian leaders to stop incitement against Jews and terror attacks on Israelis. The offense: permits were approved to construct less than 100 homes in a Jewish area of Jerusalem which happens to be beyond the
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — We are still reeling from Tuesday’s horrible terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which five people were killed during morning prayers, leaving four widows and 24 fatherless children on a single street in the neighborhood of Har Nof. How are we in the pro-peace community to respond to
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — It was prayer as usual at the Jerusalem synagogue on Wednesday morning following the devastating Palestinian terror attack that left four rabbis and a Druze policeman dead the previous day. The morning Shacharit prayer services were full of worshipers and men studying Torah, as security guards and border police milled
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–In a new study conducted by the Sagol Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa and published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers report that they’ve found a way to improve memory by manipulating a specific molecule that is known to function poorly in old age and is closely linked
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release) – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the nation’s oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States is excited to announce a star- studded line up for its annual Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner on Sunday November 23. The dinner will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City,
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Middle East, USABy Anav Silverman and Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Thousands of Israelis from across the country, including the Haredi community, came to pay their respects to the Druze police officer, Zidan Saif, 30, who fell in the line of duty during the brutal Palestinian attack on a Jerusalem synagogue yesterday. Traffic police officer Zidan Saif
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Middle EastIranian spy reaches plea deal, will serve 7-8 years in Israeli prison (JNS.org) Ali Mansouri, 58, an Iranian national arrested more than a year ago on suspicion of spying for Iran against Israel, will confess to the charges against him after initially denying them and will be sentenced to a prison term of seven to
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–In 1869 Mark Twain published his impressions of Jerusalem in The Innocents Abroad. Along with frequent assertions of respect for the city’s history and its meaning to him and many others, he described a general level of filth, disease and poverty that surpasses just about everything in the contemporary Third World. “It
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Controversial public relations executive Ron Torossian, a pro-Israel activist based in New York City who was once national president of the North American branch of Betar, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, challenged the Leichtag Foundation in San Diego County to explain its contributions to the New Israel Fund, an
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USABy Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I was elated by the sweeping victory of the GOP in last mid-term elections , not because I am enamored with their programs and political acts but because, sadly to say, this is the only way, in our system of government, to put a stop and start
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — Each cell contains thousands of proteins, each one of which bears a unique signature. All proteins, distinct in shape and function, are built from the same amino acid strings. Many proteins are vital, as evidenced by the plethora of diseases linked to their absence or malfunction. But how exactly did proteins
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–During the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans and Europeans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In the United Nations Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought and when the Arabs and their Soviet supporters tried to override the
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By Anav Silverman and Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — The four rabbis who were murdered in the brutal Palestinian terror attack on Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood on Tuesday morning, November 18, all lived on the same street. Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 68, Rabbi Mosheh Twersky, 59, Rabbi Calman Levine, 55,
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