Science, Medicine, & Education

$1.15 million raised for Yemin Orde Youth Village

NEW YORK (Press Release) —  Friends of Yemin Orde announced that  $1.15 million has been raised for Yemin Orde Youth Village and Village Way Educational Initiatives at the May 8 Tikkun Ha’Lev Award international gala, co-chaired by Kimberly Taylor Hirschfeld and Jeffrey Hirschfeld o, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. Approximately 420 guests […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

BGU develops new approach to fighting cancer

BEER SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) –BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), announced that a research group led by Prof. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz of the BGU Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, is developing a new molecule to treat cancer that inhibits cancer cell

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Evangelical Christian directs StandWithUs in San Diego

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sara Miller, 33, director of the San Diego chapter of StandWithUs, is a descendant of a long line of evangelical Christian ministers associated with the Assemblies of God denomination.  A great-grandfather was one of the denomination’s original missionaries to India; her grandfather preached in Iran during the Shah’s

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Mayim Bialik honored at JCT event

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology, which rallies support for an academic institution that is at the forefront of empowering women in Israeli society, Sunday night featured “Big Bang Theory” star actress Mayim Bialik as the keynote speaker at its New York City gala dinner. Over 400 people gathered at Lincoln

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Some sunscreen lotions seen as unsafe for coral

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev(BGU), and the United States provided significant evidence that sunscreen ingredient oxybenzone (BP3) causes coral bleaching at sites in Hawaii, Eilat, Israel, and the Caribbean, leading to a ban which passed Thursday in the Hawaii state legislature, Under the new legislation, which

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Protests against anti- Zionism at Cal Poly

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – The Drylongso Collective, a group that consists of numerous Cal Poly student organizations, demanded “an increase in ASI funding for ALL cultural clubs, with the exception of organizations that are aligned with Zionist ideology.” Today, 60 education and civil rights organizations urged Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong to take immediate and long-term steps

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Neo- Nazi posters spring up on college campuses

DURHAM, North Carolina (Press Release)  – – StandWithUs is outraged at white supremacist flyers found at Duke University and throughout downtown Durham, North Carolina, explicitly targeting Jews and Zionists. Jen Weintraub, Southern Campus Coordinator, commented that, “we are seeing an increase in such hateful displays on college campuses and elsewhere. As someone with family who survived the

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Teacher in Parkland, Florida, shooting to be feted

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Ivy Schamis, from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, has been named this year’s AFC “Teacher of the Year” in recognition of her guiding presence and the strengths of patience, justice, and empowerment that she has successfully shared with younger generations. The 22nd annual gala and awards program, to be held

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

For Brown Widow Spiders, sex leads to cannibalism

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — Male brown widow spiders seek to mate with older, less-fertile females who are 50 percent more likely to eat them after sex, according to Israeli researchers in a study published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Volcani

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

National anguish following death of Israeli teens

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — After several weekends of coping with massed Gazans on or over the edge of violence, the country has been obsessed with the deaths of teenagers, seemingly caused by the negligence of an upper status pre-army program. The disaster also reflected one of the country’s natural attractions: spectacular desert canyons (wadis)

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Levin- Banchik new Israeli scholar in residence at SDSU

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University has announced that Israeli political scientist, Dr. Luba Levin-Banchik, will be teaching courses in the History and Political Science Departments and will be in residence at SDSU for the 2018/19 academic year. Her residency is supported by a grant from the Murray

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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education