By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — The other day I was sitting with my group of morning coffee buddies in what we call “Our Caffeinated Corner” — okay, I’ll give the shop an unnecessary plug: Starbucks — and we were talking about health. Everyone had his or her favorite way of obtaining health
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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education
PHILADELPHIA (Press Release)—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a grass roots organization of over 30,000 academic members based in Philadelphia, expressed its great concern over recent events at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.. Controversy erupted there after an “International Studies 110” class (IS) traveled over Spring break to Israel to study water policy. The IS
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Is a picture worth only a thousand words? According to Dr. Carmit Katz of Tel Aviv University’s Bob Shapell School of Social Work, illustrations by children can be a critical tool in forensic investigations of child abuse. Dr. Katz’s study, published in Child Abuse and Neglect, compared the results when
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– According to a new study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Amsterdam, oxytocin caused participants to lie more to benefit their groups, and to do so more quickly and without expectation of reciprocal dishonesty from their group. Oxytocin is a hormone the body naturally
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
CHICAGO (Press Release)–Fifty-four Reform rabbis shaved their heads to raise awareness of and funding for pediatric cancer research on Tuesday evening, April 1, at a convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. As the religious leadership of Reform Judaism, the CCAR Rabbis strive for justice and health in the world for all people. The
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share
UC Santa Cruz Professor and cofounder of AMCHA Initiative, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, spoke about the alarming rise in campus anti-Semitism at T.E.A.M.’s 5th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, March 30, at Congregation Beth Am in San Diego. Nicole Bernstein from StandWithUs and Jean-Jacques (“J.J.”) Surbeck, T.E.A.M. cofounder, also spoke at the event about what it takes to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
RISHON LEZION, Israel (Press Release)–The College of Management- Academic Studies (COMAS) recently launched the Chinese Media Center at its School of Media Studies. The Chinese Media Center at the College of Management – Academic Studies is the first of its kind in the Middle East, joining only three centers in the world’s leading academic institutions–in
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education
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