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Symbolic brit milah held day after synagogue massacre

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 East

Haifa scientists seek to PERK up Alzheimer memory

HAIFA, 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, & Education

New Israel Fund report seen as unreliable

By 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, USA

Is Leichtag Foundation supporting anti- Israel groups?

By 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, USA

Scientists mapping the ‘protein universe’

TEL 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, & Education

Scholar to trace Israel’s decline in world opinion

SAN 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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JNS news briefs: November 18, 2014

Terror attack on Jerusalem synagogue kills 4, including 3 Americans (JNS.org) A terrorist attack on the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood on Tuesday morning killed four Jewish worshippers, including three American citizens, and wounded at least eight others. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency security meeting at his office, saying

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Middle East

Four slain in Jerusalem synagogue, 8 others hurt

Photo and Video by Hillel Maier, Tazpit News Agency By Tzvi Zucker JERUSALEM (Tazpit)– Early Tuesday morning, two Arabs armed with a gun, butchers knives, and an axe, attacked worshipers praying the morning prayers in a synagogue in Har Nof. Police said Uday and Ghassan Abu-Jamal  entered the synagogue shooting a pistol and screaming “Allahu Akbar”,

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