Israeli doctors find severe COVID-19 breakthrough cases mostly in older, sicker patients

Published by Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – In Israel’s COVID-19 wards, doctors are learning which vaccinated patients are most vulnerable to severe illness, amid growing concerns about instances in which the shots provide less protection against the worst forms of the disease. Around half of the country’s 600 patients presently hospitalized with severe […]

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Middle East

Israel Goes it Alone

By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Can Israel rely on any other country to support it when it’s critically endangered? First of all, Israel has never asked any other country to fight on its soil; but, Israelis hope and expect that other Western democracies would back it — on the world stage, in the

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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA

As Covid-19 cases spike, Israel sends reservists to work in hospitals

Published by DPA In view of the sharp rise in new coronavirus infections, the Israeli army has announced that it will once again send around 200 army reservists to support staff in dozens of hospitals. The reservists will help with logistical tasks such as transferring patients or transporting medical equipment, a military representative said on

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New Report Identifies 5 Key Causes of Gender Gap in Jewish Nonprofit Leadership

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Addressing five causes can make significant progress in closing the persistent and large gender gap among CEOs at Jewish nonprofit organizations, finds a new report released by Leading Edge, which works to influence and inspire dramatic change in how Jewish organizations attract, develop, and retain top talent. Conducted in partnership

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USA

HAIR Raises the Spirit of Optimism

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — It takes a true optimist to rebel against society. First, you must really believe that you’re right and the world around you is wrong. Then you convince yourself and others that change is possible, that marches, chants, signs and sit-ins will actually make a difference. The alignment of

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Old Orleans

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Just over a week ago, while en route to Paris on our way home to Israel, we stopped to take a brief look at the famous city of Orleans, one of France’s foremost historical sites, and associated indelibly with Joan of Arc, a.k.a. the Maid of Orleans. Due

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food

The ‘Highly Unlikely’ Happened in Afghanistan. Now What?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — In the Famous-Last-Words department: “The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.” The “highly unlikely” happened on Sunday as a dozen Taliban fighters garbed in native dress gathered around a desk in the presidential palace in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA

Israeli Universities to Partner with Moroccan Tech School for Joint Research, Degrees

(JNS) Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco is working on agreements with two Israeli universities so far to promote academic collaboration. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem penned an understanding with the institution on Aug. 10, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is expected to sign on by mid-October. These partnerships establish a framework for

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Middle East

Talented Celebrity and Statesman Made Paso Robles His Second Home

The Paso Robles Historical Society currently is housed in a building that had been donated for a library many years before by the philanthropist and industrialist Andrew Carnegie – one of 3,000 libraries he donated throughout the world.  Outside the building there is a statue, but it is not of Carnegie nor of Drury James, the man who recognized that the city’s hot springs and mud baths could be made into a tourist attraction and who built the grand Hotel de El Paso de Robles. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Will Polish Anti-Restitution Law Permanently Harm Ties with Israel, Jewish Community?

By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) Despite international pressure to veto the bill, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a bill passed by the Polish legislature on Aug. 14 that would prevent individuals with property seized by either the Nazis during World War II or the post-War Communist government from having it returned. The bill effectively ends the

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International, Middle East

Forest fire near Jerusalem extinguished after almost three days

Published by DPA A massive forest fire west of Jerusalem has been extinguished after almost three days, a spokesman for Israeli Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev confirmed on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out Sunday and continued to spread despite intensive efforts by the fire brigade and the use of firefighting aircraft. According to media

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