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

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

Student Kills Student at the Arab American University in Jenin

It began when a girl from one village hugged a boy from another village.

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

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.

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

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.

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

Arab School Principal Shot, Town under Police Lockdown

111 Israeli Arabs, including 15 women, have been murdered since the start of 2021.

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

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

Romanian Parliament Votes to Make Jewish & Holocaust Studies Mandatory

The Ellie Wiesel Institute reported 27 anti-Semitic in Romania in 2020 alone.

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

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.

Knesset Education Committee in Historic Statement: Israeli Schoolchildren Must Visit Temple Mount

The committee determined that the Temple Mount should be included in the mandatory sites for Ministry of Education tours.

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

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

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

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.

Feds Charge Texas Student Who Proclaimed: ‘I Set a Synagogue on Fire’

“It's very rare for an individual to be charged with a hate crime against a structure versus a hate crime against an individual.”

Brooklyn School Bans Zionist Shirt, Okays Black Lives Matter Garb

School principal Neal Singh: “Zionist involves the retaking of Palestinian land and is ‘offensive.'"

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

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.”

Bar-Ilan University Launches Groundbreaking $75 Million Diabetes Initiative

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

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

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

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

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.

NYC Starts COVID-19 Vaccinations in Schools for Children 5-11

Some schools ran out of the vaccine on Monday within an hour or two; some locations were provided with very few doses to start with.

Tel Aviv U Initiates Model for Carbon Neutrality

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

Researcher: Close to 100,000 Mixed Marriages with One Jewish Spouse in Israel

The CBS data show that the phenomenon of Jewish women marrying Arab men is marginal.

Haifa U and UAE’s Zayed U Sign Cooperation Agreement

Prof Rubin, who served for about a decade as a representative of NYU in its Abu Dhabi branch, opened his remarks with greetings in Arabic.

Yeshiva Har Etzion to Establish New Yeshiva High School in Alon Shvut

Yeshiva Makor Chaim and four yeshiva high schools in Efrat – Orot Yehuda, Shvut Yisrael, Neve Shmuel and Derech Avot -- are located in Gush Etzion as well.

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

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.”

Harvard/Clalit Study of 728,321 Israelis Shows Third Vaccine More Effective than Only 2 Shots

1,158,269 individuals were eligible to be included in the third dose group.

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

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

Yeshiva University Establishes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Center for Values and Leadership 

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

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