‘Love Hormone’ differentially affects male and female perceptions

HAIFA (Press Release) — “The Love Hormone,” Oxytocin affects men and women differently in social contexts- in men it improves the ability to identify competitive relationships whereas in women it facilitates the ability to identify kinship. “These findings are in agreement with previous studies on the social differences between the sexes: women tend to be […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Maccabiah Games Successfully Close With Top Israeli Musicians

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — The official closing show of the Maccabiah Games on Tuesday night, July 30, was a huge success with athletes and spectators alike at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. Thousands of athletes rocked to the tunes of Israeli bands and singers including Balkan Beat Box, The Young Professionals, Orphaned Land, Offer Nissim,

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Travel and Food

JNS news briefs: July 31, 2013

Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations stumble over which issues come up first (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) While outwardly looking positive and accommodating, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are in fact in disagreement over when to bring up core issues such as borders and security, with the Palestinians wanting to talk about borders first, and the Israelis wanting all

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International

Grossmont College’s Welcome Back Center prepares foreign medical professionals for their U.S. licensing

EL CAJON (Press Release)– Foreign-trained doctors, nurses and medical technicians may help fill the gap between the number of health care professionals working in the United States today and the larger number expected to be needed when the federal Affordable Care Act goes into effect on January 1, 2014. Welcome Back Centers at Grossmont College

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San Diego County

JNS news briefs: July 30, 2013

Mahmoud Abbas rules out ‘presence of a single Israeli’ in future Palestinian state (JNS.org) While Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations began in Washington, DC, on Monday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking in Cairo, ruled out the “presence of a single Israeli” in a future Palestinian state. “In a final resolution, we would not see the presence

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International

Rabin Centre in Tel Aviv depicts his life and Israel’s history

  TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Yitzhak Rabin, who served as Prime Minister of Israel during two separate periods, 1974-77 and 1992-95, was a figure who towered over his generation. The first native Israeli (‘sabra’) to serve in that office, he was assassinated by an extremist right-wing Jew in November 1995, at the conclusion of

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

A Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas

By Joel A. Moskowitz MD LA JOLLA, California — It is common for laypersons to scoff and ridicule the mentally aberrant and to deride those who ‘treat’ such suffering.  Mishegas is the Yiddish label.  Jay Neugebren, Michael B. Friedman MSW and Lloyd I. Sederer MD have crafted (potchkied) a parody of the DSM-5.  (Diagnostic and

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Israeli hospitals accepting more and more Palestinian patients

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM — A report published by The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Unit (COGAT) shows that 219,464 Palestinian patients received medical treatment in Israeli hospitals during 2012, 21,270 of them children. These numbers include the companions accompanying the patients in Israel. These numbers constitutes a dramatic increase in Palestinians receiving

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Of men and their sex drives in wine country and in politics

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California -While New York’s Anthony Weiner and  San Diego’s own Bob Filner are making front page news for their alleged sexcapades and perfidy, La Jolla Playhouse presents Sideways, the tale of a bachelor party gone most awry.  Sure, sexual misconduct is always titillating, but most especially when it’s so downright

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Eva Trieger

Phasing of prisoner release a test for negotiations

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For several days we have heard the pluses and minuses of an apparently simple, but actually complex decision by Israeli government ministers to release some 104 prisoners for the sake of negotiations with the Palestinians. The decision is complex because it was made in principle, with important details left for

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East