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Jewish Scientist Among Three Recipients of Nobel Prize for Medicine

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

President Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

There are 304 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 out of whom 219 are individuals and 85 are organizations.

Bob Dylan Maintains Silence, Continues to Ignore Nobel Award Committee

World renown folk music song writer Bob Dylan is making world headlines by ignoring the Nobel Prize committee after winning the 2016 award for Literature.

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

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

Boycotters Call Trips to Israel ‘Apartheid-Day Propaganda Tricks’

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

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

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

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

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...

Two Israel-Americans Receive Nobel Prize Awards in Stockholm

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...

Three Americans Win Nobel Awards in Economics

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...

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

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.

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

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.

Belgian Holocaust Survivor Wins Nobel Prize for Physics

Francois Englert, a Belgian Jewish professor at Tel Aviv University and a Holocaust survivor, shared the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, the third Jew...

Two Jews Win Nobel Prize in Medicine

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...

Pairwise Matching Revisited (Podcast)

An interview with Nobel Prize winner Professor Robert Aumann.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Israeli Scientist Wins Nobel Prize

Professor Dan Shechtman of Haifa’s Technion University received the Nobel Prize in Chamistry at an awards ceremony and gala ball in Stockholm on Saturday evening.

Survivor’s Guilt

In my previous three columns (1-7, 1-21 & 2-04-2011) I wrote about my experience with thyroid cancer - a disease that I actually had twice, almost nine years apart. I was very lucky that this is a very curable carcinoma, and even more fortunate that I never felt any real discomfort or pain from the two surgeries and radioactive iodine treatments I underwent. Even when I was very hypothyroid - a prerequisite for the radioactive iodine to have the maximum affect on any cancer cells that were not removed by the surgery - I still felt fine.

Author Lectures On Jewish Bigamists, Murderers, And Thieves

"It's part of our history," author Ron Arons told The Jewish Press. "Just to say we have hundreds of Nobel Prize winners ignores the fact that we have problems too."

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