Science, Medicine, & Education

Kosher certificate for morning sickness pill

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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U of Haifa offers course on anti-BDS techniques

  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

U of Michigan BDS debate rife with anti- Semitism

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

Canada, Israel join in nuclear detection pact

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

Haifa unveils underground emergency hospital

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

Special Children Offered a Ladder to Success

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

Jewish groups suggest agenda for Pope, Obama

  WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Ahead of President Obama’s meeting with Pope Francis this month, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) are encouraging community members to sign a petition asking the President to talk about environmental conservation with the Pope. “Protecting our environment is

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International, The World We Share

AEPi a fraternity and Jewish advocacy group

  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

Scientists unearth grisly secrets of Treblinka

  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

Report documents how UN agency indoctrinates Palestinian children to hate and fight against Israel

Editor’s Note:  The following report was commissioned by the Center for Near East Policy Research, a Jerusalem institution which publishes Israel Behind the News. By Arnon Groiss, JERUSALEM (CNEPR) — UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees in the Middle East – was established in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of

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