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Nobel Prize

Health and Medicine

Jewish Scientist Among Three Recipients of Nobel Prize for Medicine

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Harvey J. Alter, along with Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, received the prestigious prize for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

Jewish / News Briefs

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

By Jewish Press News Desk

There have been 15 Jewish Nobel Prize winners in the Literature category

News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / Africa

Boycotters Call Trips to Israel 'Apartheid-Day Propaganda Tricks'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Anti-Israel South African groups complain that the pro-Israel lobby is "undermining solidarity with the Palestinian people."

US / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

US Rebukes Ya’alon for ‘Offensive’ Remark that Kerry is Messianic

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

When an Israeli leader says what he really thinks of Kerry, it‘s no wonder the US is insulted, even if true.

Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Haifa U. Denies Prof. Aumann Honorary Award because of Politics

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The University of Haifa’s Executive Committee said it decided not to grant an honorary doctorate to Professor Robert Aumann, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 2005, because his political beliefs do not fall in line with the university’s values. The university was concerned about several Zionist positions espoused by Aumann, including a […]

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs

Two Israel-Americans Receive Nobel Prize Awards in Stockholm

By Jewish Press News Desk

Sweden took a break from anti-Semitism Tuesday with the awarding of the Nobel Prize in chemistry to Israel-Americans Aryeh Warshel and Michael Levitt, who were named last month as prize winners “for the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems.” The two men and co-winner Martin Karplus each received $1 million from the Royal […]

US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Three Americans Win Nobel Awards in Economics

By Jewish Press News Desk

Non-Jews finally have taken home some Nobel awards, although not officially Nobel Prizes. After an almost embarrassingly large number of Jews  who won a vast majority of the prizes awarded this month, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday honored Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller  for their "for their empirical analysis […]

Israel / US / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / Science and Tech / Holocaust

Israelis Star in Nobel Prizes, so Why Doesn’t BDS Boycott Them?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

If the Boycott Israel movement were intellectually honest, it would condemn the Nobel Prize judges for awarding Israelis. Let’s see how many pro-boycott academics will snub Israel’s universities.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Settlements

Abbas’ Idea for Israeli Security: No IDF Arrests of Terrorists

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Abbas is doing a great job to make the PA non-existent. He claims cooperation with the IDF is great but the IDF must stop entering Arab cities to arrests terrorists. Even Livni is not that naïve to agree.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Belgian Holocaust Survivor Wins Nobel Prize for Physics

By JTA

Francois Englert, a Belgian Jewish professor at Tel Aviv University and a Holocaust survivor, shared the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, the third Jew in two days to win the esteemed award. The prize for Englert and Peter Higgs of Britain for their discovery of the Higgs particle was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy […]

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Two Jews Win Nobel Prize in Medicine

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two more Jews, both from the United States, and a German non-Jew won the Nobel Prize in medicine in Monday, while two Israel contenders lost out. The newest Jewish Nobel Prize winners are James Rothman of Yale University and Randy Schekman of the University of California. The Israeli hopefuls  were Hebrew University professors Howard Cedar […]

Goldstein on Gelt

Pairwise Matching Revisited (Podcast)

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

An interview with Nobel Prize winner Professor Robert Aumann.

Goldstein on Gelt

From Academia to Industry: The Story of Graphene (Podcast)

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

An interview with Noble Prize winner Professor Andre Geim, the developer of graphene.

Goldstein on Gelt

Marriage, Medical School, and Matching (Podcast, Pt.I)

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

The subject that brought this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics to winners Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley is pairwise matching. But what is pairwise matching, and how can it be applied to everyday life choices? Doug Goldstein interviews Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Aumann, winner of the prize in 2005, who explains what pairwise matching is and how it can be applied to life decisions, such as who to marry and which medical school to attend.

Goldstein on Gelt

Romney Can’t and Obama Won’t Do What America Needs (Podcast Pt. I)

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

Douglas Goldstein interviews former Chief Economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Harvard professor Ken Rogoff on the American debt crisis.

News Briefs / Europe

New York Jewish Doctor Co-Recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry

By JTA

Robert J. Lefkowitz, a Jewish physician and path-breaking biochemist from New York, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter II

By Barbara Bensoussan

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