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Featured / Jerusalem / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U. Developed Blood Test Detecting Immune and Inflammatory Activity Sans Biopsies or Imaging

By Jewish Press News Desk

Based on this, scientists can identify from which tissue the circulating fragments of DNA originated and infer disease states.

Antisemitism / Boycott / BDS / On Campus / Education

CUNY Chancellor Rejects BDS Resolution Passed by Law-School Student Government

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

On Dec. 2, the LSGA passed a resolution that calls on CUNY to cut all ties with companies that “aid in or profit from Israeli colonization, occupation and war crimes.”

Featured / Israel / Chessed and Tzedaka / On Campus / Education

The Ari Fuld Project Launches Fellowship Program with Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh

By Jewish Press News Desk

Fellows in the new program are learning from Ari Fuld's teaching to help disseminate them to future generations of Jews.

Featured / Religious & Secular in Israel / On Campus / Education / Judaism

Not a Book Club: 100 Women Complete Daf Yomi's Tractate Taanit

By Jewish Press News Desk

"Knowing that so many others were doing it with me created a sense of excitement and encouraged me to continue until the finish line.”

Jerusalem / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U. Physicist Wins 2021 Breakthrough of the Year Award

By Jewish Press News Desk

Physics World editors chose the winners from nearly 600 published research articles.

Featured / Government / The Knesset / On Campus / Education / Israeli Arabs

TAU Survey: Most Arabs Want Ra'am Minister in Lapid-Bennett Government

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli Arabs don't trust the government to implement plans for fighting crime in Arab communities.

Featured / Anti-Israel NGOs / On Campus / Education

ADL Report: Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace Top Drivers of Anti-Israel Sentiment on Campus

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Seventeen colleges brought BDS measures up for a vote by the student government in 2020-21, and 11 have passed them.

Politics / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / On Campus / Education / Gulf States / UAE

Israeli & Emirati Students Address Global Challenges Together

By Jewish Press News Desk

Bennett: There's no better time to spread the message of Israel to the world and this mission is an example of proactively spreading that light.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

TAU-Led International Study Discovers Drug that Treats Symptoms of Autism and Alzheimer's

By Jewish Press News Desk

The symptoms that were remedied using NAP: slow development, poor communication, brains with a small number of synapses, and low electrical activity.

Antisemitism / On Campus / Education / Canada

Toronto School Officials Censure Trustee Who Sounded Alarm on Anti-Semitic Materials

By Faygie Levy Holt

Noah Shack, vice president at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, urged the Toronto District School Board to take “immediate, meaningful and reparative action to fix the rot of anti-Semitism, particularly with its Human Rights Office.”

Israel / Jewish / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan U's Prof. Shlomo Havlin Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics 2021

By Jewish Press News Desk

Recently, for the second year in a row, Havlin won the "Most Cited Researcher in Physics" award.

Antisemitism / Boycott / BDS / On Campus / Education / Canada

University of Toronto Amends Anti-Semitic BDS Motion, Makes Exception for Pro-Israel Kosher Caterers

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The student union at a branch of the University of Toronto said it will modify a ban on kosher food that is part of a resolution endorsing the BDS movement against Israel.

Antisemitism / On Campus / Education / Canada / PFLP

Canadian University Postpones Event with PFLP Terrorist Amid Outcry from Jewish Groups

By Faygie Levy Holt

The Dec. 2 program included a talk by a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group in both Canada and the United States.

Antisemitism / Boycott / BDS / On Campus / Education / Canada

BDS Measure Bans ‘Pro-Israel’ Kosher Caterers at Toronto University

By Faygie Levy Holt

“I think it is an embarrassment to society,” said Rabbi Nechemia Deitsch, director of Chabad of Midtown in Toronto, which services the student population. “The fact that there is this hatred in the air is due completely to a lack of education.”

Israel / The Environment / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Using Plant Remains TAU Researchers Reconstruct Israel's Climate by End of Last Ice Age

By Jewish Press News Desk

The study was conducted at the prehistoric archaeological site Jordan River Dureijat ("Jordan River Stairs") on the shores of the Paleo Lake Hula.

Israel / On Campus / Education / Judaism

Bar-Ilan U Scholar Wins Award for Book on Early Resistance to Rashi's Torah Commentary

By Jewish Press News Desk

“Rashi’s Commentary may have shaped Judaism and the Jewish people more than any other work except the Bible and the Talmud.”

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan U Study Reveals How People Know They're Tired

By Jewish Press News Desk

Our PARP1 protein acts as an antenna, signaling the brain that it's time to sleep and repair DNA.

Anti-Israel NGOs / On Campus / Education

UConn Hillel Accused of ‘Islamophobia’ by Newspaper After Countering SJP Rally

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Members of Hillel and other pro-Israel campus organizations set up a table with literature on the outskirts of the rally to challenge the one-sided anti-Semitic narrative of Students for Justice in Palestine.

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / On Campus / Education / Gulf States / UAE

UAE Education Minister on Israeli Collaboration: Education is the Antidote for Global Challenges

By Jewish Press News Desk

United Arab Emirates Minister of Education Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi delivered his remarks as part of a senior delegation visiting University of Haifa.

Featured / Jerusalem / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education / Germany

Quantum Encryption Advances at Hebrew U Keeping Data Secure on the Internet

By Jewish Press News Desk

The team at HU developed a system that uses fluorescent crystals in the form of specks so tiny that special microscopes are needed to see them.

Israel / Health and Medicine / On Campus / Education

Haifa U Study: Ultra-Processed Food Increases Risk of High Blood Pressure, Blood Lipids

By Jewish Press News Desk

People who consume a lot of ultra-processed food face 1.5-times higher risk of high blood pressure, excess fat in the blood, and low levels of “good cholesterol.”

Israel / Health and Medicine / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan University Launches Groundbreaking $75 Million Diabetes Initiative

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Russell Berrie Galilee Diabetes SPHERE tackles diabetes and reduces healthcare disparities while developing innovations that will have a global impact.

US / Politics / Left vs. Right / Boycott / BDS / Anti-Israel NGOs / On Campus / Education

79 Groups Urge Virginia Tech to Protect Jewish Students after Graduate Senate Approves Pro-BDS Resolution

By Jewish Press News Desk

Virginia Tech’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate members implement the academic boycott on campus and in their own classrooms.

Featured / Israel / History / On Campus / Education / Archaeology

Siege Ramps & Breached Walls: Israeli Archaeologists Trace the Assyrian Conquest of Lachish

By Jewish Press News Desk

Construction began about 80 meters away from the walls of the city of Lachish, close to where stones required for the ramp could be quarried.

Israel / The Environment / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Tel Aviv U Initiates Model for Carbon Neutrality

By Jewish Press News Desk

TAU has placed efforts to combat climate change among its top priorities.

US / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

Rally Against Anti-Semitism Organized after Torah Vandalized at George Washington University

By Faygie Levy Holt

Rabbi Yudi Steiner, director of the Rohr Chabad Center at GW, said “what I’m hoping to do today is lead by example and model how I think the Jewish response, from Jewish students especially, should be, and that is what we will talk about the rally.”

Israel / US / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Weizmann Institute Researchers Solve the Riddle of Jupiter's Red Spot

By Jewish Press News Desk

Weizmann Institute and NASA Researchers discover surprising parallel between Jupiter and Earth

US / On Campus / Education / Judaism

Yeshiva University Establishes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Center for Values and Leadership 

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The center will be dedicated to the dissemination of his leadership lessons and values in classrooms, communities and through public discussion.

Israel / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Startup Genome Ranks Tel Aviv University 5th in the World in Entrepreneurship

By Jewish Press News Desk

Tel Aviv University ranked right after four leading American universities – Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley and Harvard.

Jerusalem / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Jerusalem School Launches Trailblazing Cyber Security Program for Orthodox Tekkies

By Jewish Press News Desk

Cyber Elite 2.0 is set to bolster Israel’s cyber industry with underleveraged talent from Orthodox communities.

Jewish / US / On Campus / Education / Canada

Enrollment in American Jewish Day Schools Continues to See Increase as Pandemic Lingers

By Faygie Levy Holt

The increase is across denominational lines. This is also the first time since 2008 that there a “net enrollment increase” in non-Orthodox schools.

US / Antisemitism / Arts and Entertainment / On Campus / Education / Interfaith Relations

Jazz Musicians Call for Cultural Collaboration Against Anti-Semitism and Racism

By Jewish Press News Desk

Wynton Marsalis said: “We are many, let us also be one, unified in our embrace of humanism, cultural excellence and democracy. Let us not be tribal.”

Government / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

PM Bennett: Green Classroom Expanded to Kindergartens, Daycare Centers

By Jewish Press News Desk

Students participating in the Green Classroom Outline will not participate in multi-participant activities.

NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Police Release Photos/Video of Yeshiva of Flatbush Arson Suspect

By Jewish Press News Desk

NYPD’s Crime Stoppers is offering a $3,500 reward for information leading to the woman’s arrest.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan U Study of 625,000 Births: Exposure Extreme Temperatures May Slash Fetal Growth

By Jewish Press News Desk

With extreme temperatures resulting from climate change, identifying windows of vulnerability can assist clinicians in refining their recommendations to pregnant women.

US / Politics / Left vs. Right / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

AMCHA Denounces California Governor's Signing of Ethnic Studies Bill

By Jewish Press News Desk

“This bill could and should have been stopped at the legislative level and must not be forced on the Jewish community to fight in each of California’s 1,300 school districts.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Ethnic-Studies Legislation in Massachusetts Raises Alarm from Jewish, Watchdog Groups

By Sean Savage

Charles Jacobs, president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, told JNS that ethnic studies and racial-justice curricula as now constructed are "poisonous to American society, as they promote tribalism and racism."

UK / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

University of Bristol Fires Professor Who Took Aim at Jewish Students, Israel

By Faygie Levy Holt

A lawsuit claimed that political sociology professor David Miller violated the country’s equity laws and that his comments in a February Zoom session amounted to the harassment of Jewish students.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

TAU Researchers' Discovery of Immune System's 'Double Agents' May Help Win War on Cancer

By Jewish Press News Desk

It is not inconceivable that these revelations are the first step towards deciphering the mechanism of interaction between the immune system and violent cancerous tumors that, as mentioned, claim the lives of so many.

US / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

Thousands Call on California Gov. Newsom to Veto Ethnic-Studies Bill Ahead of Deadline

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The California legislature recently voted to advance the controversial AB 101; the governor has until Oct. 10 to take action regarding it.

Israel / Europe / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U Physicist Elected President of CERN Council

By Jewish Press News Desk

Professor Rabinovici’s main field of research is theoretical high-energy physics, in particular quantum field theory and string theory.

US / On Campus / Education

Jewish Groups Urge Public Funding for Private Schools Ahead of Supreme Court Case

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America, said “excluding religious-school students from a state aid program that benefits other private-school students is discriminatory and unconstitutional.”

US / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

Survey Finds Nearly Two-Thirds of Jewish Students Feel Unsafe, Half Hide Identity

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Jim Fleischer, CEO of AEPi, called the results “staggering and alarming,” saying that more needs to be done to “not only push back against the rise of anti-Semitism on campuses.”

Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

TAU Discovery: White Blood Cells May Help Destroy Malignant Tumors

By Jewish Press News Desk

The destructive properties of white blood cells called eosinophils can be employed to kill cancer cells.

Israel / US / Politics / Left vs. Right / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

Jewish Institute for Liberal Values Says Critical Race Theory Encourages Anti-Semitism

By Jewish Press News Desk

"We believe it is impossible to contain the anti-Semitism emerging from CSJ without rejecting the imposition of CSJ."

Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Stop Killing your Children: TAU Study Shows 70% of Smokers' Kids Suffer from Secondhand Smoking

By Jewish Press News Desk

Researchers tested children's level of exposure using a biomarker, nicotine in hair, which indicates cumulative exposure to tobacco smoke.

Global / Business and Economy / Jerusalem / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U Study: Stock Markets Tumble When Working Moms Take Junior to First Day of School

By Jewish Press News Desk

The team surveyed 607 participants from 32 countries regarding their gender, education level, parental status, and whether they accompanied their child on the first day of school.

Terrorism / Jewish / Government / On Campus / Education

Jewish Agency Summer Camp Brings Emotional Relief to Victims of Terror

By Jewish Press News Desk

More than 100 Israeli children living near the Gaza Strip attend camp run by The Jewish Agency’s Fund for Victims of Terror, which is supported by donations from world Jewry.

Science and Tech / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Hebrew U Study Shows Oral Medication Effective in Treating Severe COVID-19 Patients

By Jewish Press News Desk

Fenofibrate reduced inflammation in 48 hours, removed need for oxygen support in 5 to 7 days.

Israel / On Campus / Education

IDC Herzliya Recognized as University, Renamed 'Reichman University'

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"Were it not for Professor Uriel Reichmann, who envisioned and executed the IDC’s establishment with extraordinary talent and dedication, the IDC would have never existed."

Israel / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education / Archaeology

TAU Researchers Discover Millennia-Old Magnetic Field Recordings Teach Us about Today's Magnetic Field

By Jewish Press News Desk

Burnt archaeological flints enable us to determine the strength of the Earth's magnetic field during prehistoric periods.

On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Bar-Ilan U Study: Pre-Pandemic Physiological Data Predict Mental State Under Corona

By Jewish Press News Desk

Individuals with more relaxed heart rate/respiratory function 2-3 years prior to SARS-CoV-2 reported greater mental well-being during the pandemic.

Headline / Police and Crime / On Campus / Education / Cyber

Israel’s Bar Ilan University Hit by Ransomware Cyberattack

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“From what we know so far, the event is a narrow one. Work and classes at the university are continuing as usual."

Jerusalem / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U. Ranks 90th Out of World’s Top 100 Universities, No. 1 in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Three Israeli academic institutions—HU, Technion, and Weizman—are the only Middle-Eastern higher education institutions in the top 100.

Boycott / BDS / On Campus / Education

High Court Rules BDS-Supporting Professor Can Receive Israel Prize

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Goldreich signed a petition on March 23 calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions in Judea and Samaria.

NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Zeldin Urges US Education Departments to Investigate Anti-Israel Bias in New York Schools

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

New York City Educators for Palestine wrote “it is vital that we continue to show our support for a free Palestine—and the more of us who can actively show our solidarity, the better protected we will all be from attacks by employers and union bosses.”

Israel / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Magen David Adom (MDA) Begins Serological Testing for Covid on Children Aged 3 – 12

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The serological survey began today in Kiryat Ya’arim, as children from Israel’s ultra-orthodox sector returned to school for a new year of studies.

Government / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Education, Health Minister Issue Final Plan for School Year's September 1 Opening

By Jewish Press News Desk

The outline ensures the health of students and education staff through 6 layers of protective actions.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / Photo of the Day / On Campus / Education

Jealous Much? First Day of School in the Haredi Sector

By Photo of the Day

The average Israeli is spending thousands of shekels trying to figure out how to keep their kids busy in August.

Jewish / US / On Campus / Education

GW Becomes First American University to Offer Master’s Program in Israel Education

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

George Washington University has more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students who identify as Jewish.

Israel / The Environment / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan U. Biologist Found Spotted Hyenas' Social Ties Are Inherited

By Jewish Press News Desk

Massive study of data collected over 27 years sheds light on social networks, rank and survival of this African species.

Headline / US / Politics / Left vs. Right / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

Erasing Years of Work, California Bill Revives Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies Curriculum

By Jewish Press News Desk

Rossman-Benjamin was the first to expose how the discipline of Critical Ethnic Studies is deeply antisemitic and anti-Zionist.

Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Israel Unveils Plan to Teach Hi-Tech Starting from Kindergarten

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The program will begin with a pilot for middle-school pupils in the upcoming school year and will expose them to computer science, robotics and other fields, in order to advance technological excellence, and deepen the scientific thinking among Israeli students.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

TAU Technology Restores Sense of Touch in Damaged Nerves After Amputation

By Jewish Press News Desk

This unique development is body friendly and does not require electricity, wires, or batteries.

Business and Economy / Jerusalem / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U. Exposes Tobacco Companies' Tactics to Bypass Regulators & Get Kids Hooked

By Jewish Press News Desk

“Israel’s Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz announced that he is committed to advancing tobacco legislation."

Politics / Government / Left vs. Right / Boycott / BDS / On Campus / Education

New Education Minister Upholds Decision to Deny Israel Prize to Pro-BDS Professor

By Jewish Press News Desk

"We need to embrace those who take part in building the country and society, not those who work to destroy it."

Israel / Jewish / Global / Diaspora / On Campus / Education

Jewish Agency's Global Summer Camp Hebrew Ed Program Connects Younger Generation to Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

For Herzog, who will be sworn in next month as Israel's 11th President, this new Hebrew language program is the perfect closure to his tenure as head of The Jewish Agency.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

CUNY Jewish Professor Resigns from Union, Concerned About Anti-Semitism Within Ranks

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Jeffrey Lax says a recent resolution seeks to put an end to American financial support to Israel, which is tantamount to divestment.

Featured / Druze / US / Politics / On Campus / Education

Former Druze MK to Represent Israel as Senior Emissary on North American Colleges

By Jewish Press News Desk

"In the name of pluralism and diversity, we will work to connect, bridge, and emphasize what we have in common, for our country and our future.”

Featured / Jerusalem / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U Reveals Impact of Medical Marijuana on Children

By Jewish Press News Desk

Matok and his team found that medical cannabis is particularly successful at treating severe epilepsy and chemotherapy’s pernicious side effects.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / Left vs. Right / Boycott / BDS / Diaspora / On Campus / Education

Zoom Fun: Hebrew U Senior Lecturer Charges Israel with Ethnic Cleansing of Arabs

By Jewish Press News Desk

"If she thinks Israel is so bad, she is welcome to renounce her Israeli citizenship and go live under the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. She won't be missed."

Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education / European Union

Bar-Ilan Co-Leading EU Vaccines Research for Measles, STD, in Under-Served Populations

By Jewish Press News Desk

In Israel, despite socio-economic disparities, the Israeli Arab population achieves very high vaccine uptake.

Jerusalem / On Campus / Education

Hebrew U. 25th in Communications, 30th in Law, in Prestigious Academic Ranking

By Jewish Press News Desk

The global Shangai Ranking of Academic Subjects) reveals that Hebrew University has maintained its status and even improved in several departments.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Tel Aviv U Researchers: Sick Bats Also Employ 'Social Distancing' to Prevent Outbreak of Epidemics

By Jewish Press News Desk

New study from Tel Aviv University reveals that bats also resort to isolation which can assist in preventing mass contagion.

Israel / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

IDC Herzliya, Bar-Ilan, Develop Software to Help Measure DNA Sequencing Errors

By Jewish Press News Desk

Controlling off-target editing activity is one of the central challenges in making CRISPR-Cas9 technology accurate and applicable in medical practice.

Haredim & Hassidim / Religious & Secular in Israel / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education / Social Media

TAU Study Shows Facebook, WhatsApp, Altered Haredi Attitudes on Sexual Abuse

By Jewish Press News Desk

"The study's findings indicate a trend of significant change in the Haredi society's attitude toward sexual abuse."

Israel / On Campus / Education / China

2 TAU Researchers Win China's Prestigious Changjiang Professorship Award

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Chinese government's decision to award the prize to foreign researchers is considered very unusual and attests to the outstanding excellence of the researchers.

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