International

Tel Aviv study: Computer regimen can help prevent PTSD

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Computerized attention training may prevent the flare-up of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers exposed to combat, according to a new study from researchers at Tel Aviv University. Attention bias modification training (ABMT) — a computerized intervention — was used to help soldiers attend to pre-combat threats, reducing the risk of […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Haifa study learns how tree tobacco tricks sunbirds

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — What does a plant whose nectar is bitter do to make pollinators return to visit its flowers and thereby ensure the plant’s continued propagation? Apparently it may cause its pollinators to forget the bitter taste of the nectar. A new study by Dr. Shai Markman from the Department of Biology

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Family donates Survivor Henry Oertelt’s effects to Holocaust Museum

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Press Release) — Corey Samuels’ journey to tell the story of her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Henry Oertelt recently culminated in an emotional donation of Oertelt’s personal belongings to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Oertelt had been liberated by General Patton’s Third Army during the Flossenburg death march in April 1945. He arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota, in

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International, Jewish History, USA

Online auction of Judaica set for July 14

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– The Jewish Jerusalem Fine Art Store, http://www.tjjfineartstore.com, will be holding an art auction, featuring the works of eight outstanding Jewish artists, at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem on July 14, 2016. Proceeds of the auction will benefit Deaf youth in Israel through the International Young Israel Movement (IYIM) Judaic Heritage program

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Middle East Roundup: July 7, 2016

Germany says Iran violating UN missile resolutions (JNS.org) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Iran is violating United Nations Security Council regulations concerning its ballistic missile program. During remarks to the German Bundestag, Merkel said that Iran “continued unabated to develop its rocket program in conflict with the relevant provisions of the UN Security Council,”

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Middle East

House Democrats boo Bernie Sanders for his delay in endorsing Clinton

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders was booed during a closed meeting with House Democrats on Wednesday, as lawmakers shouted “Timeline! Timeline!” — pressing for his endorsement of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential nominee. The Vermont senator did not directly answer Democrats’ many questions about his intentions, according to a source in the

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USA

Trump says he admired Saddam Hussein only for how he killed terrorists

Donald Trump defended his praise of Saddam Hussein at an Ohio rally where he spent nearly an hour heaping scorn on television networks for the way they have covered his presidential campaign. “I don’t love Saddam Hussein,” Trump said of the late Iraqi dictator on Wednesday. “I hate Saddam Hussein. But he was damn good

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Middle East, USA

Anti-Semitism row deepens rift in Germany’s right-wing AfD

Anti-Semitic comments penned by a regional lawmaker of Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has deepened a leadership split within the party. The feud highlights the AfD’s balancing act ahead of 2017 elections – to appeal to anti-migrant sentiments without being labelled an openly neo-Nazi or fascist party. The row pits the party’s most

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International

France’s Marine Le Pen Backs Donald Trump For President

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s resurgent nationalist party National Front, has endorsed U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump and defended Britain’s decision to leave the EU, French newspaper Le Parisien reports. Le Pen, who has been accused of making anti-Muslim and anti-refugee remarks, is currently among the most popular party leaders in France and

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International, USA

Abbas urges UN Security Council to reject Quartet report

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas called on the UN Security Council on Wednesday to reject a key report by the diplomatic Quartet that condemned both Israeli building in Judea and Samaria, and Palestinian incitement to violence. The report published last Friday by the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States was criticised

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International, Middle East

Israeli scientist will probe Juno’s data on Jupiter’s interior

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— NASA’s Juno spacecraft went into orbit around Jupiter on July 4 after a five-year trip covering nearly 2 billion miles in outer space — and Prof. Ravit Helled of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Geosciences played a major role in getting it there. “It’s really fun and exciting! It’s great to

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Middle East, USA