Summary: Following a horrific house fire, medical experts at Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer in Israel saved the life of an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler. The hospital’s highly skilled surgeons used a treatment that had never before been performed in Israel, utilizing an innovative skin bank to stabilize the child’s condition and help her begin the long…
PHOTOS: Researchers gathered data from 17,576 Jewish teens between the ages of 13 to 19 in a national survey administered through the 14 participating Jewish youth groups. Responses from More than 17,000 Teens Reveal Ambitions and Fears, Positive Influence of Jewish Youth Organizations The largest study ever on American Jewish teens paints a picture of…
This Mother’s Day Week, Arizona Flower Market is supporting UMOM New Day Centers by donating 50% of the purchase price of any 10 Stem bunch of Tulips to UMOM. Arizona Flower Market will make a donation on behalf of every customer who comes into the Flower Market Monday May 6th thru Sunday May 12th and…
Photo: Chairman of the Jewish Agency and his wife Michal; Ilan Cohen, chairman of Masa Israel; Liran Avisar Ben Horin, CEO of Masa Israel Journey; Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs, and Minister of Information; and M.K Zvi Hauzer. On the eve of Yom Hazikaron, a day of remembrance in Israel…
Courtesy of American Friends of Tel Aviv University Radar technologies were originally designed to identify and track airborne military targets. Today they’re more often used to detect motor vehicles, weather formations and geological terrain. Until now, scientists have believed that radar accuracy and resolution are related to the range of frequencies or radio bandwidth…
Women under-report their snoring – both the prevalence and intensity –compared to male snorers, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center Researchers. The new study published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine involved 1,913 patients with an average age of 49 that were referred to…
Tired of matzah yet? The UJA Federation New York hopes not! The #MatzahChallenge is going strong and they want YOU to join! Now in its second year, the #MatzahChallenge gives you the opportunity to do some good during the most celebrated Jewish holiday – Passover! Giving back is now as easy as fixing a snack!…
By Kathleen Rogers and Ingmar Rentzhog Generally speaking, humans have demonstrated over and over a remarkable ability to cooperate in a crisis. The tragic fire at the beloved Notre Dame’s Cathedral was a case in point. Firemen and even members of the public rushed into the inferno, while millions of people around the world paced…
Photo: Dr. Salman Zarka, the director of the Ziv Medical Center in Safed with a young Syrian girl. Photo coutesy IDF Spokesman’s Office Dr. Salman Zarka has been selected as one of 12 torch-lighters at the annual Independence Day ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Zarka, of the Druze village of Peki’in in the north, is…
International Artists Took Near Misses Personally A group of international graffiti artists were painting towering murals to inspire hope in Ashkelon even as rockets from Gaza targeted the city in central Israel. Almost before the paint dried on their work, Ashkelon was hit by rockets which sparked a stand-off between Hamas and Israel which nearly…
