Science, Medicine, & Education

  By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org  It’s all over. Barack Obama has won a second term, and that means a presidential race that has lasted for more than a year has just taken a sharp nosedive. Akin to being suddenly deprived of your favorite reality TV show, you may feel a little lost, and may begin

By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in mid-October for their work in market design. Shapley and another researcher, David Gale, came up with the Gale-Shapley algorithm, which showed how 10 men and 10 women could be matched so that no two

  By Einav Lulian    . PETACH TIKVAH, Israel — The day I made my way through the   frantic atmosphere of the recruitment base, waiting for my new green IDF   uniform, I never thought that with a little pinch of a needle at theEzer Mizionbone marrow sample testing booth, I   could save a human life. They took

JERUSALEM (Press Release) – As Hadassah’s much anticipated Centennial Convention in Jerusalem nears, thousands of people from across the United States will travel to Israel, where they’ll honor Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as hear remarks from President Shimon Peres. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization

By Jeffrey F. Barken/JNS.org At a time when ocean fish populations are threatened worldwide, Israeli fish farmers are developing innovative new technologies and breeding methods that are revolutionizing their industry. Faced with managing scarce water resources in a desert ecosystem, the Israeli government has supported the solutions of kibbutzim—and more recently, those of “Dagim,” the

Laws and a culture of guilt about the legacy of the Nazis have kept expressions of Jew-hatred on the margins of German society. But with judges and doctors and others openly attacking Judaism, it’s apparent Germans are increasingly undeterred by such factors. By Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org When a court in Cologne, Germany ruled in June