Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the U.S. The 40-year-old reportedly had breast cancer that spread to her bones. “A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart… gone far too soon,” her friend, NASA scientist Firouz Naderi, posted on Instagram. The Fields […]
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAGirls’ elementary school fails three inspections despite being praised for ‘inspiring pupils with enthusiasm’ By David Sedley Illustrative image of ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls studying at a Ultra Orthodox Jewish Girls school in Jerusalem, on September 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) An ultra-Orthodox girls’ elementary school in London may be forced to close after failing to meet
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & EducationNASHVILLE, Tenn. – The doctor pulls up a chair next to his patient, a 74-year-old woman with lung cancer. He tells her she doesn’t need more chemotherapy. Her eyes perk up; has she beaten her cancer? As it turns out, no. Her cancer has metastasized. She only has six months to live, at most. But
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWilliam Sachs Goldman, 38, was the grandson of San Francisco philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman By Times of Israel staff William Goldman. (Courtesy University of San Francisco website) The grandson of a well-known Jewish philanthropist was killed in a plane crash near a small airport in San Francisco on Thursday. William Sachs Goldman, 38, was
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAJon Morgan/AP Images for Whirlpool Thousands of American students are less likely to attend school if they don’t have access to clean clothes – which is why this company is installing dozens of washing machines and dryers in schools across the country. Appliance manufacturing company Whirlpool is donating the machines in order to give struggling
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Editor’s Note: Editor Donald H. Harrison and his grandson Shor recently completed a 2,000 mile journey through California and Nevada, collecting and photographing Jewish stories along the way. This article is the second in a series generated during that trip. Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori MADERA, California – Stuart Weil
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA“We are seeing a microcosm of the future.” A rift in the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf NASA In a harbinger of future sea-level rise that could pose a serious threat to coastal communities, an iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from an Antarctic ice shelf, leaving the rest of the shelf
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Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareDon’t feel bad about pouring yourself that extra cup of joe tomorrow morning—it could actually be good for you. A study out Tuesday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found that people who drank a cup of coffee a day were 12 percent less likely to die from cancer, stroke and diabetes as well
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Science, Medicine, & EducationThe United States of America were much less divided just two years ago, when the majority of citizens largely agreed on some fundamental beliefs across party lines: of those, that higher education leads to a better nation. But in 2017, where it seems even nonpartisan issues and institutions have become boxed into sets of beliefs
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK – U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is urging federal regulators to look into a “snortable chocolate” powder, saying he’s worried that it could prove harmful and is being marketed like a drug. In a letter Saturday, the New York Democrat asked the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the use of caffeine in inhalable
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASAN DIEGO — Craig Parks of Carlsbad has been selected for the Harold Grinspoon Foundation Award for Excellence in Jewish Education for Multi-Institutional and Independent Jewish Educators, it was announced by Jennie Starr of Tarbuton. Tarbuton/Startup18 Jewish Educator Awards were also awarded to Lillian Elbaz of Serra Mesa (San Diego) for her work as a
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationVice President Mike Pence broke the rules during a tour of NASA’s Kennedy Spacer Center on Thursday and the internet isn’t ignoring it. Mr. Pence was touring the facility with Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, when Reuters photographer Mike Brown captured the vice president blatantly disregarding a prominently displayed “DO NOT TOUCH” sign. The image
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The history of the Herzog Hospital (formerly known as Ezrat Nashim) goes back to 1895 and the establishment of a society to provide care for the chronically ill. Since then the facility has expanded both in physical terms and in its medical scope. In the 1960s it moved to
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By Itzhak Brook MD WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the greatest challenges of a medical corps team member is to care for captured and wounded enemy soldiers. I served as an army medic during the 1967 Six Day War in the battle over Jerusalem and as a battalion physician in the 1973 Yom Kippur War
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