[embedded content] After 55 years as a member of the UK Labour Party, Liverpool Riverside MP Dame Louise Ellman has resigned from the party. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Ellman, 73, tendered her resignation this past Wednesday in a letter, writing that […]
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Photo Credit: Hana Levi Julian / JewishPress.com Israeli jewelry designer Michal Negrin also produces many other types of gifts Famed Israeli jewelry and fashion designer Michal Negrin is closing her worldwide business due to “financial difficulties,” the Hebrew-language 0404 military website reported Saturday night. Negrin notified the company’s 120 employees that she had to “give […]
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Ants can protect plants from 14 diseases thanks to chemicals they secrete from their legs and bodies, a study has found. The research from Aarhus University suggests that the benefits of these infection-fighting antibiotics to plants may be as significant as the service ants provide in defending plants from herbivores. They also host colonies of […]
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Photo Credit: courtesy, Rafael Trophy system on US Abrams M2 battle tank (JNS) In recent days, Israeli defense corporation Rafael made a dramatic announcement, stating that it delivered on time the first batch of Trophy Active Protection System to the US Army. Trophy, a system that was first deployed by the Israel Defense Forces in […]
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Photo Credit: Courtesy Baby Zohar Zisner Doctors in the city of Kazan in Russia on Friday pronounced the death of Zohar Zisner, a year-old Israeli baby who died of cardiac arrest in her sleep during an Aeroflot flight from the Phuket resort island in Thailand to Moscow, where she and her family were scheduled to make […]
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Lloyd Blankfein: “I knew I’d lose stature when I left my old job” I knew I’d lose stature when I left my old job. Thank you Harvard basketball team for rubbing it in!! pic.twitter.com/TAQiRrIk42 — Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) October 18, 2019 Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein posed with Harvard’s basketball team and then joked […]
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Israeli startup Orasis brings science fiction to life by developing corrective eye drops as an alternative to reading glasses, contact lenses or surgery. Israeli startup Orasis Pharmaceuticals brings science fiction to life by developing a corrective eye drops as an alternative to reading glasses contact lenses or laser surgery. The company‘s patent-protected solution CSF-1 eye […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press There is a custom on Yom Kippur to ask the Sefer Torah for mechilah for not giving it enough respect (by not learning enough etc.). In the spirit of this minhag, when we get a hakafah on Simchas Torah, we should reflect on how the Sefer Torah feels about us. As […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press On Simchas Torah, we enthusiastically dance with Sifrei Torah. But if the purpose of the Yom Tov is to rejoice with the Torah, why don’t we express that joy by studying Torah? Isn’t the main point of Torah to understand it? Why do we celebrate it by dancing with our feet, […]
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