Tel Aviv U pioneers new test for ADHD

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed — and misdiagnosed — behavioral disorder in children in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unfortunately, there are currently no reliable physiological markers to diagnose ADHD. Doctors generally diagnose the disorder by recording a medical and social

Tel Aviv U pioneers new test for ADHD Read More »

Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

JNS news briefs: August 13, 2014

PLO envoy to Tehran: Israel’s annihilation has just begun (JNS.org) The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) ambassador to Tehran, Salah al-Zawawi, said that Israel’s annihilation has just begun. “The US and the western countries have created a fake regime in Palestine to get rid of it and have supplied it with the most advanced weapons and

JNS news briefs: August 13, 2014 Read More »

Travel and Food

Lucky for Herman, Jews disagree if he’s kosher

-Twentieth in a Series- By Donald H. Harrison CASCADE LOCKS, Oregon – Herman the Sturgeon is by far the biggest attraction at the Bonneville Fish Hatchery here. Approximately 70 years old, Herman is 10 feet long and weighs 450 pounds.  He is midsize for his species, with some sturgeons having been known to grow to

Lucky for Herman, Jews disagree if he’s kosher Read More »

Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA

UC teaching assistants vow Israel boycott

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Following a scathing antisemitic statement released by the Union of Student Workers promoting the boycott of Israel and exclaiming the need to “educate” others on the “settler-colonial” and “apartheid” nature of the Jewish state, eleven groups, today, urged University of California President Napolitano to intervene and ensure that hate-filled

UC teaching assistants vow Israel boycott Read More »

Science, Medicine, & Education

JNS news briefs: August 12, 2014

Known anti-Israel critic appointed head of UNHRC Gaza probe (JNS.org) Known anti-Israel critic William Schabas, a Canadian professor of international law, has been selected to head a three-person investigation by the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) into the Gaza conflict, which the Israeli government slammed as a “kangaroo court.” Schabas in the past has called

JNS news briefs: August 12, 2014 Read More »

Travel and Food