TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Fatigue, weight gain, chills, hair loss, anxiety, excessive perspiration — these symptoms are a few of the signs that the thyroid gland, which regulates the body’s heart rate and plays a crucial role in its metabolism, has gone haywire. Now, new research from Tel Aviv University points to an additional […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Israeli civil rights group, Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, has warned United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that awarding the UN Development Programme’s annual Equator Prize for 2014 to the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (“UAWC”), a Palestinian organization that is formally affiliated with the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel’s population now stands at more than 8.2 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Monday, releasing its new figures on the eve of Rosh Hashana. They show that Israel has 8,252,500 inhabitants, three quarters of which (6,186,100) are Jews (75 percent of the total), 1,709,900 Arabs (20.7 percent) and 356,500 others (4.3
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has hailed the unanimous U.S. Senate adoption of the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act (S. 2673). This important measure, co-sponsored by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), recognizes Israel is a major U.S. strategic partner, and broadens the U.S.-Israel alliance by promoting greater cooperation on security,
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It risks the charge of banality to assert that Israel is a place with a multitude of historical layers, many of which intrude into its politics and international relations. The people who migrated, fought, conquered, suffered defeat, left, or stayed have made their mark on the names of places, changes in the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer JERUSALEM — I had last visited the Temple Mount in 1982, on a synagogue-sponsored trip from New Jersey. My memories of that visit are hazy, but Michal and I got another chance just before Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. We joined a Tel Aviv University-sponsored trip, guided by archeologist/historian Dr. Stephen Rosenberg, whose
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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer-First in a series- By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — This is part one of a five-part series on the emotional states of grief. The poems are excerpted from my book, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after Loss. Everyone deals with pain differently. What helps me is
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) –It was a historical moment at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum on Thursday night, September 18, as the world’s oldest known Jewish prayer book was displayed for the first time to the general public with leading Jewish and Christian figures present. The siddur, which is 1,200 years old, belongs to Steve
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)–Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, condemned “the hateful anti-Muslim language of Oklahoma State Representative John Bennett,” in a statement by Bend the Arc CEO Stosh Cotler: “It is deeply disturbing when anyone refers to a group of people as a ‘cancer,’ especially when that person is a public official,” Cotler
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — One tries hard to believe that mainstream journalism about the unrelenting Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unprejudiced and evenhanded. One wants to believe that the reporters are unleavened with impartiality and do not give in to their inevitable human biases. A glaring and hurtful exclusion in a renowned US newspaper
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Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) voiced profound disappointment regarding the Metropolitan Opera commitment to proceed with Death of Klinghoffer. The Met premier of this controversial opera is scheduled for October 20, 2014. The Met, apparently sensitive to mounting criticism of an opera that glorifies and romanticizes terrorism, has already canceled the simulcast
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) hailed Thursday night’s unanimous passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of a resounding Congressional condemnation of anti-Semitism and rejection of attempts to justify expressions of anti-Jewish hatred or violence targeting Jews as merely criticism of Israel. The bipartisan resolution clearly delineates when opposition to a policy
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USABy Anav Silverman TEL AVIV–In a special initiative to enable families to spend the Jewish New Year together, an airlift of 21 flights from El- Al Airlines flying from 10 different international locations, IS bringing parents of lone soldiers serving in the IDF to Israel. Flights are taking off from New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, St.
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Middle East
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Following one of the most stressful and difficult summers in recent years, more than 50 women from Sderot spent a day in Jerusalem with The Koby Mandell Foundation, taking part in healing and stress reducing activities. The Foundation, created by Seth and Sherri Mandell after the tragic murder of their son Koby 13 years
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education