By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – A number of suspects were apprehended in the early hours on this past Friday, March 28, in a joint operation by inspectors of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery and police detectives and patrolmen. They were caught while in possession of eleven decorated stone ossuaries […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
PARSIPPANY, New Jersey (Press Release)– Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (the Fellowship) have announced a new global and long-term partnership designed to enhance and develop the activities of Limmud FSU and expand the organization worldwide. As part of the collaboration, the Fellowship will be a key partner in the
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org Rather than feeling a sense of loss, leaving the second Passover seder behind in the U.S., or France, or Turkey, or any other country of origin is touted as a perk of living in Israel that new immigrants to the Jewish state (olim) mention in the same breath as the universal availability
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — An Israeli mom from Jerusalem who developed a special harness to help her child walk on his feet, has launched her invention in the international market. Debby Elnatan, whose son Rotem suffers from cerebral palsy and is wheelchair bound, invented a device known as the Firefly Upsee, to help
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Science, Medicine, & Education
ROSEMONT, Pennsylvania (Press Release) — Duchesnay USA has received Kosher and Halal certifications for Diclegis® (doxylamine succinate 10mg and pyridoxine hydrochloride -vitamin B6– 10mg) delayed-release tablets, the only FDA-approved prescription treatment for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP), more commonly known as morning sickness. Diclegis also received Kosher for Passover certification and confirmed as gluten, lactose and tartrazine
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Science, Medicine, & Education
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–For the first time in academia, the University of Haifa has launched an academic course to combat the delegitimization of Israel on the Internet. The ‘Ambassadors Online’ Program, offered by the University’s Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies as a four credit course, prepares students to be unofficial “ambassadors” for Israel on the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Asaf Romirowsky PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After hours of discussion and debate, the Central Student Government (CSG) at the University of Michigan reversed the indefinite postponement of the BDS resolution and subsequently voted to not pass it during a 6-hour meeting in a 25-9 vote on Tuesday, March 25. During the entire process, hundreds of students lined
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – AMCHA Initiative, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Zionist Organization of America, on Wednesday, March 26, wrote to San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong urging him to investigate a recent event held by SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi where she and
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — After their meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague this week, Israel’s Minister of Intelligence Affairs Dr. Yuval Steinitz and Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird announced the launching of a joint project to develop technologies for identifying the source of nuclear terror attacks. The technology identifies the
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Aryeh Savir HAIFA, Israel — With recent history in mind, part of this exercise included a simulation of Rambam Hospital under a missile attack—an all too realistic scenario. The drill included transfer of one large department and a few medical units from the hospital’s main building to the FUEH, which extends three floors underground.
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM — Almost every great organization or institution begins with a personal story. I discovered one such school-therapy network in Israel — the Sulam Special Education Center. “Sulam” is Hebrew for “ladder,” because they appear to be helping many children with disabilities climb higher than they ever thought possible. In the case
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Toby Klein Greenwald
By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org Wild booze-filled nights, toga parties, and even hazing. Those are the popular culture images that come to mind when thinking of fraternities and sororities, especially for those who are not personally exposed to Greek life on American campuses. But the Jewish college fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) wants to dispel
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— One in a thousand children in the United States is deaf, and one in three adults will experience significant hearing loss after the age of 65. Whether the result of genetic or environmental factors, hearing loss costs billions of dollars in healthcare expenses every year, making the search for a cure
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Science, Medicine, & Education
NEW YORK (Press Release)-It’s one of the most notorious cold cases of World War II — 900,000 Jews transported by the Nazis to a camp in eastern Poland, never to be seen again. Rare documents and eyewitnesses claimed Treblinka was a death camp even more ruthlessly efficient than Auschwitz-Birkenau, but evidence was thin, because
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International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education