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Warning: warning labels may have opposite effect

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Many products, like cigarettes and medications, are stamped with warning labels alerting consumers to their risks. Common sense suggests these warnings will encourage safer choices. But now Dr. Yael Steinhart of Tel Aviv University’s Recanati Business School, along with Prof. Ziv Carmon of INSEAD in Singapore and Prof. Yaacov Trope […]

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World Jewish Congress denounces MLA vote on Israel

NEW YORK (WJC) – The World Jewish Congress, United States (WJC-US) has condemned the Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly for adopting a one-sided and biased resolution blaming Israel for its “denials of entry to the West Bank by US academics who have been invited to teach, confer, or do research at Palestinian universities.” Rabbi

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Scholars’ panels duel over BDS at MLA convention

By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org CHICAGO—After the Modern Language Association (MLA) held the much-anticipated “Academic Boycotts: A Conversation about Israel and Palestine” roundtable on Jan. 9 as part of its 2014 convention in Chicago, MLA members expressed their opposition to academic boycotts of Israel during an alternative session offsite. The official convention panel, which JNS.org could

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Inside an Israeli hospital’s waiting room

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Undergoing medical tests of various kinds invariably involves spending what seems like endless hours hanging around in hospital waiting rooms and corridors. Strange as it may seem, the most sophisticated modern medical procedures, engaging equipment almost equivalent to the engine of a jet fighter plane, require imbibing quantities

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AEPi now a major American Jewish organization

NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations announced that the international Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), has been voted into membership of the national umbrella organization. Conference Chairman Robert G. Sugarman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, said that the admission of AEPi reflects the commitment to involve

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Tel Aviv researchers make progress against schizophrenia

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Surprisingly little is known about schizophrenia. It was only recognized as a medical condition in the past few decades, and its exact causes remain unclear. Since there is no objective test for schizophrenia, its diagnosis is based on an assortment of reported symptoms. The standard treatment, antipsychotic medication, works less

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ESL students make excellent pen pals

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Mimi Pollack, a friend and occasional writer for San Diego Jewish World, is an adjunct faculty member at Grossmont College in neighboring El Cajon. She teaches English as a Second Language, which is popularly abbreviated as “ESL.” Whenever I see that abbreviation,” I think of the word “easel,”

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