Yeshiva University hosts campus screening week for Jewish genetic diseases
As part of Jewish Genetic Screening Awareness Week (JGSAW), Yeshiva University in New York City hosted a genetic screening event on Tuesday that was attended by about 100 people.
With organizational partners across the country, the week has focused...
Nobody gets past the Schwartz!
There were groups large and small viewing Super Bowl LIV throughout San Diego County on Sunday. I joined members of the Tifereth Israel Men’s Club at the home of Robin & Ben Dishman to view...
WIZO celebrates 100 years of caring for the disadvantaged in Israel
The Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) celebrated its centennial year last week in Israel. At the conference held from Jan. 19-23, more than 1,000 women representing leaders of Jewish communities from 40 countries around...
The origin of East European Ashkenazim via a southern route
Two populations are mentioned in the literature as ancestors of the Eastern European Ashkenazim: German Jews and Khazars. A German origin is not demographically possible, a Khazarian origin can also not be proven and...
A new Holocaust memorial in Suriname
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, marked 75 years since the Russian Army liberated the notorious Auschwitz Death Camp in Poland. There were only about 20,000 people left alive in Auschwitz to be liberated....
Ukrainian ‘olim’ land in Israel on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
A total of 184 new immigrants (olim) making aliyah from Ukraine via the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews landed in Israel on six separate flights on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Many noted that anti-Semitism...
An Israeli parent’s medical struggle turns into his ‘tikkun olam’
After Oded Grinstein’s daughter Shani was diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive type of sarcoma at just 9 months old, the Israeli parent struggled to find information about the cancer that threatened her...
Tel Aviv hackathon seeks solutions to ramifications of Australia’s bushfires
Israeli professionals and programmers were invited to participate in a special hackathon—events where participants work together to create solutions to problems in a limited amount of time—in Tel Aviv with the goal of brainstorming...
January 31: Sofya Yanovskaya And Marxist Mathematics
A mathematician and avid communist in the Soviet Union, Sofya Yanovskaya was born in Bessarabia on this date in 1896. She became a Bolshevik during the Russian revolution and served as an officer in...
Israeli-American backpacker Naama Issachar freed from Russian prison
Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman who has been imprisoned in Russia on drug charges since April, was released from prison on Thursday, the Russian prison service said in a statement.
“Due to the presidential decree...