How Do Campaign Polls Influence Election Results?
As Israel enters the home stretch of its election campaign (and as Canada and the United States prepare for their national elections, in October, 2018 and November 2020 respectively), traditional and social media More...
Israeli rabbinate accused of using Jewish DNA testing before being allowed to marry
Israel’s rabbinate has been performing genetic testing on Israelis from the former Soviet Union, to check if they are “genetically Jewish” as a condition for marriage registration, an investigation by More...
The Jewish Agency Will Grant Loans to Employees Who Pursue Overseas Surrogacy
The Jewish Agency has decided to grant $11,000 loan to employees of the organization who decide to search for a pregnancy surrogate overseas. The initiative was led by chairman Isaac Herzog, who sought to acknowledge More...
Israelis believe country ‘morally obligated’ to Diaspora Jews, Survey
Israelis blame government more than American Jews for Kotel Crisis; economic support seen as greatest asset provided by US Jewry to Israel – security ranks fourth The vast majority of Israelis believe Israel More...
Israeli startup MyHeritage reunites Two Korean Sisters who were abandoned at a train station
Forty-seven years ago, two sisters were abandoned at train stations in the city of Tego in South Korea. One of the sisters Christine Panel was adopted by a family from the United States and the other Kim Halen More...
Innovation: Medical Cannabis for the observant Jew
Lior Meshulam has lived with chronic pain 24 hours a day since the age of 16. The only solution to his constant agony is smoking medical cannabis. But as an observant Jew, the onset of Shabbat every Friday sundown, More...
Jerusalem neighborhood streets segregated for men and women
Several members of the ultra-Orthodox community daubed writing overnight Tuesday instructing women and men to walk on separate streets at the junction of Zefania Street and Ezra Street in Jerusalem. The graffiti, More...
Watchdog Report Tracks “BDS Movement” at American Universities
By Daniel Gelman The student movement to urge university divestment from companies doing business with Israel is still active across the U.S., according to Amcha Initiative’s 2018 year-end report. The California-based More...
12 Studies that Changing the History of the Medical World
Medicine is changing and developing constantly. Many studies published in 2018 may change the lives of millions of people around the world. The world’s leading medical journal, the New England Journal of More...
Israel and Hungary searches for Holocaust victims’ bones in the Danube river
After the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944, Miklos Horthy began the deportation and eradication of Hungarian Jews. Before the genocide there were around 800.000 Jews living in Hungary, a number which saw a More...