$20 million building will be fully operational by spring Rutgers Hillel executive director Andrew Getraer holds up a ceiling tile to be used in the new dining hall. Photos by Debra Rubin Workers in the final stages of completing work on the grounds outside the new Rutgers Hillel building Stained-glass windows dating back to the […]
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USATwin baby boys conjoined at the head were successfully separated Friday following a 16 hour surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. The 13-month-old brothers, Jadon and Anias McDonald, now have a chance at a more independent future. Jadon was the first to exit the operating room after more than 16 hours of
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — At 10 o’clock in the morning on April 16, 2007 sirens sounded all over Israel and the country came to a standstill, people stopped what they were doing, pulled over in their cars and stood in remembrance. It was Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day to remember
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — In Becoming a Soulful Educator, by Rabbi Aryeh Ben David, every chapter has “aha” moments and statements that you will want to frame and hang on your wall, and he is liberal in attributing ideas to those who have inspired him – Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook, Peter Palmer,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Toby Klein GreenwaldSTOCKHOLM — American-Jewish economist Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work on contract theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests. Born to a prominent British-Jewish family in 1948, Hart is an economics professor at Harvard University in the United States,
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars, a division of the National Association of Scholars, prepared a report for the University of California Regents entitled, “A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California.” In that report, the association
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The teacher sets up a buffet of delicious, healthy foods in the classroom and after the students finish their surprise lunch, the teacher asks a deceptively simple question: “What did you eat?” But he or she is not looking for the items that would be listed on a
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationThough best known for his ability to make audiences laugh, actor, writer and director Ben Stiller is hoping his latest effort will make people stop and think. Stiller published an essay Tuesday morning revealing that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2014. He was declared cancer-free in September of the same year.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABritish-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year”s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that “revealed the secrets of exotic matter,” the prize committee said. The three “opened the door” to an unknown world where matter takes unusual states or phases, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationStockholm (dpa) – David J Thouless, F Duncan M Haldane and J Michael Kosterlitz have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in topology and revealing the “secrets of exotic matter,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. “This year’s laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationOn Monday, it was announced that Tokyo-based cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi has received the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or science for his research on the cellular “recycling” process known as autophagy. Ohsumi’s discoveries, made over the course of decades of research, are paving the way for new approaches to treating diseases, from cancer to
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationLOS ANGELES — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled his plans for colonizing Mars, which could eventually involve a fleet of up to 1,000 spaceships to transport as many as 1 million people to the Red Planet. Musk envisions continuous launches from Earth, with massive rockets returning for reuse and spacecraft refueling in
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — Multiple sclerosis is one of the most devastating neurodegenerative diseases. It affects some 2.5 million people worldwide. It has no known cure. Until now, researchers have speculated that the body’s own immune system was unleashing an uncontrolled attack on myelin sheaths — our neurons’ protective shield — that was largely responsible
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe world’s largest single-dish radio telescope — Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) — has received its first signals from space. The behemoth, nestled in a natural crater in Guizhou Province in southwest China, will now be tested for three years before it becomes fully operational. “This is very exciting,” Peng Bo, FAST
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