BOCA RATON, Florida (Press Release)–A mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Nothing could illustrate that more than the story of Arlene Feinberg, a mother who led the charge to find a bone marrow donor for her son Jay, who had been diagnosed with leukemia. She was a pioneer recruiting volunteer donors […]
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NEW YORK (Press Release) – A measure calling for the boycott of Israeli academics, first introduced at the Modern Language Association’s convention in Chicago last January, has failed to muster the minimum required for ratification, the MLA reported on Wednesday, June 4. The American Jewish Committtee (AJC) welcomed the rejection of what it called” a
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USALAPLATA, Maryland (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, hosted a roundtable with students, faculty and administrators at the College of Southern Maryland Monday, June 2, to discuss the growing cost of higher education. Student loan debt has ballooned to roughly $1 trillion, a sum larger
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BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed an agreement to create a new seed fund to finance joint research collaborations and student exchanges. The MIT-Israel – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Seed Fund is part of MISTI Global Seed Funds. MISTI will
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — How can one have a healthier and more meaningful lifestyle? The psychologist Dr. Michael Mantell likes to use acronyms when conveying his healing messages as he believes they are a helpful way for people to remember them. For him, the acronym PERMA conveys an important message as
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – It might have been a project on homelessness, or cleaning up the environment, or any other of a number of efforts by Jewish and Latino high school students to impact major social problems, but the project that caught the eye of the judges—and won a
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, celebrating its 51st anniversary two nights before Erev Shavuot, paid tribute to two women of the Bible and to three women who have been essential to the school’s own success. Bobbe Reitman, the school nurse, was honored as volunteer of the year.
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Snakes Alive! The setting was a club for retired people in one of Jerusalem’s more prosperous and prestigious neighbourhoods. Most of its members are ladies of a certain age or more, well-dressed, well-coiffed and well-preserved, with a sprinkling of elderly gents. They spend their spare time engaging in activities which
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, on Friday, May 30, introduced legislation that would help keep guns away from dangerously mentally-ill individuals. Specifically, the End the Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act would ensure lifesaving information is submitted into the Federal
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–President Barack Obama announced the resignation of Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki, and reaction and advice from Capitol Hill was quick to follow. Here is a partial transcript of the news conference in which the President announced the resignation: * THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. A few minutes ago, Secretary Shinseki and
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In a speech on the House Floor on Thursday, May 29, Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) took on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s ridiculous and disingenuous claim that Kentucky could retain the benefits of Kynect – the state exchange created under the law – if the Affordable Care Act was repealed.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California) joined her colleague Rep. Mark Takano (D-California) and advocacy group Young Invincibles in calling on the Department of Education to strengthen accountability standards of for-profit schools and put stronger protections in place for-profit college students. “I have heard far too many stories about for-profit schools luring
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — About one in eight women in the United States will contract breast cancer in her lifetime. Now new research from Tel Aviv University-affiliated researchers, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, has provided another tool to help women, clinicians, and scientists searching for a cure to the one of the most
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, Takeda, recently signed an agreement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries to commercialize the Israeli company’s innovative treatment for Parkinson’s disease, rasagiline, in Japan. The rasagiline tablets, which are approved in over 40 countries for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, gained UK and EU-marketing authorization in 2005
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