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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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

Hoffer named as AABGU associate director

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)–American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU) has announced the appointment of Andrew Hoffer as associate director of its Southwest Region. Hoffer has nearly 20 years of experience in cultivating and securing major gifts, as well as organizing capital campaigns and special events for a broad range of education, healthcare and social service

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

San Diego Jewish schools to teach 3-D printing

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education’s (CIJE) CIJE-Tech programs in San Diego and schools nationwide will add advanced 3-D printing and software design as part of the CIJE-Tech High School Engineering Program. Soille San Diego and the San Diego Jewish Academy will both offer the CIJE-Tech program with 3-D printing. The CIJE-Tech High School Engineering Program

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

The cyber warfare in the body’s inner space

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Two years ago, Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy and Rice University’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics made the startling discovery that cancer, like an enemy hacker in cyberspace, targets the body’s communication network to inflict widespread damage on the entire system. Cancer, he found,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Suit brought against nursing homes operator

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —A law firm in Long Beach has filed a class action suit against a company that operates 57 nursing homes in California, including five facilities in San Diego County.  The lawsuit incorporated declarations from the state attorney general’s office in another case to contend that by understaffing nursing homes,

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

UC tells student helpers ‘keep advocacy out of classroom’

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– Twelve Jewish advocacy groups applaud University of California (UC) Provost Aimee Dorr and UC administrators for protecting the well-being of Jewish students. The groups wrote to UC President Janet Napolitano in August after the 83-member joint council of UAW 2865, representing all the graduate student instructors, tutors and readers at the 9 teaching

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Genocide research endowed; first fellowship awarded

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Margee and Douglas Greenberg have provided a gift to fund an endowed fellowship program at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, the newly announced research and scholarship unit of the Institute housed on the campus of the University of Southern California. The Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship is

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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

How rabies virus hijacks a body’s nervous system

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Rabies causes acute inflammation of the brain, producing psychosis and violent aggression. The virus, which paralyzes the body’s internal organs, is always deadly for those unable to obtain vaccines in time. Some 55,000 people die from rabies every year. For the first time, Tel Aviv University scientists have discovered the exact

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