Brandeis University, known for its proud past, is reimagining itself for the future. Located in a Boston suburb, Brandeis opened in 1948 at a time when Jews and other minorities faced open discrimination at many American universities. Named for Justice Louis Brandeis — the first Jewish member of the U.S. Supreme Court — the university’s founders pioneered […]
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HAIFA, Israel — From his fourth-floor lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Professor Ron Kimmel can see Haifa Bay, the green slopes of Mount Carmel and the distant hills of Galilee. But it’s the view of microscopic breast cancer cells on his computer screen that really excites him. Kimmel is an expert in computer […]
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Ilanit Ninay-Lion remembers as if it were yesterday the frantic call she received in November 2023 from the family of Yoni Asher. His wife and their two daughters were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7 and taken into Gaza. Hamas terrorists had already killed his mother-in-law, whom they were visiting. The family holds […]
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More than 4,500 teens from North America and Israel gathered last month for an outdoor festival that some have described as “Israel’s teen Coachella.” Part music festival, part celebration and part networking event — featuring a musical performance from Noam Bettan, the runner-up in this year’s Eurovision competition — the group of high schoolers came together […]
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At first glance, the recent celebration outside a northern New Jersey synagogue looked a lot like a bar or bat mitzvah party. Dance music blared from the speakers, many of the men wore kippahs and there was enough food coming off the grills to feed all of the guests and then some. After a few […]
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Mordechai Deluca never considered delaying his move to Israel from the United States because of the war with Iran. If anything, the opposite is true. “My worry was, how could I get there as fast as possible?” said Deluca, 39, who arrived in Israel on March 9, just eight days after the war with Iran […]
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First, the good news. Among Americans under 50, the overall cancer mortality has plummeted by 44% over the last quarter-century. Better diagnostic tools, along with a sharp drop in smoking, helps explain why deaths from leukemia as well as lung, breast and brain cancer are falling so dramatically. Now the bad news: Colorectal cancer (CRC) […]
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JERUSALEM — A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of Lyon, France. An embroidered prayer shawl, or tallit, used by 7-year-old Yosef Valdman of Borsczców, Poland. These everyday artifacts are among 33 displayed in glass cubicles at the entrance to “Living Memory” […]
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TEL AVIV — Dr. Olivia Keller-Baruch had long dreamed of working as a doctor in Israel. Originally from Montreal, she knew making the move would require some adjustments. Her Hebrew skills needed work, she was aware physician salaries in Israel differ from those in North America and she assumed navigating Israeli bureaucracy would take time. […]
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In one classroom, students create a podcast featuring an “interview” with the prophet Elijah. In another, instructors teach Jewish prayers using AI-created songs with rhyming lyrics. Elsewhere, Jewish studies classes are automatically recorded and translated into multiple languages for a multilingual student body. Welcome to Jewish day schools in the age of artificial intelligence. With […]
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