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Dr. Jonathan Rubin discusses how the Crusaders, beyond initial hostility, learned theological, economic, and scientific lessons from interactions with local ...

Jerome Bourdon, a communications professor at Tel Aviv University, explains the significance of the peoplemeter's evolution from a commercial data tool to a ...

Research shows that giving to charity not only stems from awareness of needs, such as natural disasters, but also from personal well-being, invoking feelings...

Dr. Noah Efron, a prominent academic, delves into the question of why Jews hold a significant presence in the sciences, offering a fresh perspective. On a di...

Dr. David Schorr, a historian at Tel Aviv University, discusses the impact of water laws in British-ruled Palestine on the region's political and legal lands...

Beekeeper Liane Newton, who runs nycbeekeeping.org, ensures the well-being of bees for Rosh Hashanah honey by providing resources for urban beekeepers. She s...

The article weaves a narrative involving Mitch Neyman, a planetary scientist who is thrust into action when a meteor explodes above Chelyabinsk, Russia, caus...

Jewish MIT students Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer have initiated a groundbreaking project at the university, raising $500,000 to offer every undergraduate stu...

On September 11, 2001, Akamai Technologies, a Cambridge-based company, faced a drastic surge in internet traffic following the terrorist attacks on the World...

NASA's unprecedented research initiative involves astronaut twins, Mark and Scott Kelly, to study genetic impacts of spaceflight. While Scott spends a year a...

After a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Dr. Avraham Bauer and his son Yehonathon were severely injured, with Yehonathon suffering a brain wound that left him b...

The article discusses the significance of counting the Omer, a Jewish practice of counting the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, particularly in the cont...

Computer scientists at Tel Aviv University are utilizing artificial intelligence to reconstruct over 1,000 documents from the vast Cairo Genizah collection, ...

Dr. Meyer Lifschitz, a kidney doctor, became a kidney donor for his sister after her kidney function deteriorated, advancing the idea of transplantation over...

The podcast "How Many Shofars Does It Take" humorously explores the possibility of seven shofars destroying the walls of Jericho as described in the Book of ...

Phrenology, a pseudo-science popular in the past, claimed that personality traits could be determined by the bumps on a person's head. Nasology, a new concep...

Jewish leaders in Israel, including rabbis and kabbalists, took to the skies on a plane to bless the land and prevent further deaths from the H1N1 virus, als...

In the late 18th century, vaccination emerged as a method to prevent smallpox, despite being controversial due to risks. Jewish rabbis debated the halachic i...