Science, Medicine, & Education

AMCHA: SJP plans to disrupt pro- Israel meetings

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– Fifteen Jewish and education advocacy groups on Tuyesday, Oct. 28, wrote to the presidents of more than 100 universities with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters to warn them of an internal SJP document containing a strategy for disrupting pro-Israel student events, conduct subject to prosecution under state criminal laws. In […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The making of the Talmudic Encyclopedia

  By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM–The gentle autumn wind foreshadows the holiday season as I locate a modest doorway on a tree-lined Jerusalem street, the side entrance to the elegant 90-year-old Yeshurun Synagogue. It leads to Yad HaRav Herzog, a research center which hosts, among other projects, the venture that is possibly the most momentous

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Toby Klein Greenwald

TAU reports progress in combating infertility

TEL AVIV (Press Release)– Difficulty in conceiving a child is a major challenge for one in seven heterosexual couples in America, especially for those over the age of 35. Now a new discovery by researchers at Tel Aviv University and Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer could boost the chances of conception in women undergoing

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Emergencies spur innovative surgeries at Hadassah

By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Tragedies, however horrific, have a way of teaching trauma doctors at the Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem in Jerusalem new medical facts and procedures, its chief orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Rami  Mosheiff, on Sunday, Oct. 26, told a Southern California gathering of the Hadassah support organization at the Hotel del Coronado.

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

Baron to teach at Richard Stockton College

SAN DIEGO  (SDJW)– Prof. Lawrence “Laurie” Baron, emeritus professor of history at San Diego State University and a regular contributor to San Diego Jewish World,  has been appointed the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies by the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey. In the fall semester of 2015 at the college

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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & Education

Sign language has its own intonations

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Like the intonation of individual spoken languages, sign languages also have their own unique “sound,” and, as with spoken languages, the intonation of one community’s language is different from that of another community, according to a new study at the University of Haifa. “Our discovery that sign languages also have unique intonation

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Eritrean refugees taught to be medical translators

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Sixteen Eritrean refugees in Israel have completed a medical interpreting course created by Prof. Galia Sabar of Tel Aviv University’s African Studies Department. Eight of the asylum-seeking graduates have already joined the Israeli health system as medical translators. “Language barriers are acute between Eritrean asylum seekers and medical personnel in Israel,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Willful blindness to academic anti-Semitism

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–As yet more evidence that academics are regularly able to engage in what George Orwell sardonically referred to as “doublethink,” “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them,” this month 40 professors of Jewish studies published a denunciation of a study that

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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

AJWS spreads Ebola prevention information in Liberia

NEW YORK (Press Release)—American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is funding grassroots groups in Liberia that are responding to the Ebola outbreak through public health campaigns that rely on trusted non-medical community leaders to spread the word about preventing infection. AJWS is currently supporting 10 community-based organizations in Liberia that are deploying networks of religious leaders, women’s

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

4 Israeli institutions receive cash awards

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–The Helmsley Charitable Trust has announced more than $9.6 million dollars in grants to four Israeli institutions. These grants are part of a continuing effort to invest in Israel’s leading institutions and critical initiatives toward the goal of strengthening Israel as a successful and secure nation. Since the Helmsley Charitable Trust began awarding

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Hadassah’s bra project spurs breast cancer awareness

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Hadassah and Girls Give Back teamed up Sunday, Oct. 12,  in a multi-generational event to decorate bras and raise awareness for breast cancer and to empower women to take charge of their health. Teens, their moms and grandmothers gathered together in the Sukkah at Beth Am Synagogue, and were addressed by Dr.

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education