The Institute for the Study of Aging (ISOA) Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Award for 2003 was awarded to Dr. Marta Weinstock of Hebrew University. The Institute for the Study of Aging (ISOA) Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Award for 2003 was awarded to Dr. Marta Weinstock of Hebrew University. The award, announced on September 16th, includes a prize […]

JERUSALEM – The Israeli Air Force moved swiftly last week to punish some of the 27 officers who signed a petition refusing to serve in the territories, grounding nine of them. The petition had been widely circulated among hundreds of Israel’s reserve pilots by two left-wing groups called Yesh Gvul and Courage to Refuse, which […]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | For this year’s “break the fast”, I want to serve something other than the ubiquitous fish platter delivered from the local deli’. Granted, it comes complete with rye bread and all the trimmings, but it changes little from one year to the next. At the appointed hour, you remove it from the refrigerator, […]

In an era in which Israel is known for high-tech innovation, Rummikub is an on-going low-tech success story – and a labor of love. Rummikub Everybody has heard of Monopoly and Scrabble. But fewer are familiar with the third best-selling family game in the world – Rummikub. But those who know it and play it […]

Many are the myths that have embraced Islam over the centuries. Of these, the most dangerous is a belief in its tolerance, at least in relation to Christianity which, in 1215, when the Fourth Lateran Council met under the patronage of Pope Innocent III, decided that non-Christians would be separated from Christians by a special […]

The Council on American Islamist Relations (CAIR) is reeling after a federal grand jury charged one of its former senior staffers with conspiring to aid Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization. Former CAIR civil rights coordinator Randall Todd “Ismail” Royer faces federal charges that he and others “conspired to provide material support to Osama bin Laden’s […]

With college students often accusing Israel of racism and war crimes, some might call it chutzpah to go to American campuses to make the case that Israel is the real champion of human rights in the Middle East. But Natan Sharansky did just that last week, visiting 13 campuses on a tour sponsored by the […]

The West Nile virus was eliminated in intentionally infected lab mice, and it has already promoted the recovery of a woman at Netanya’s Laniado Hospital. Israelis win U.S. grant to develop anti-smallpox first aid treatment Journal of Infectious Diseases Omrix Biopharmaceuticals Israeli microbiologists have developed the first passive vaccine against the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, […]

The City Of Jerusalem Today Sept. 11, 2003 ” ” Modern science has thrown its weight behind Biblical historians, backing their account of an Old Testament king who drove a tunnel under Jerusalem to ensure water supplies for his besieged subjects. The underwater aqueduct is known as the Siloam Tunnel or “Hezekiah’s Tunnel” in honor […]

This morning, Tuesday, September 9, 2003, Nadia Matar, prevented a huge catastrophe from occurring in the community of Efrat in which she lives. Nadia saw a suspicious looking Arab while taking one of her children to school. She drove up to him in her car, and asked him what he was doing in Efrat. He […]