Alina Dain Sharon / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Alina Dain Sharon / JNS.org
Hillel at 90: The Past, Present, and Future of Campus Activism
JNS.org - When recent rabbinical school graduate Rabbi Benjamin Frankel began a part-time clerical position in 1923 working with students at the University of...
Israel’s Latest Nobel Laureate in Chemistry on Understanding How Enzymes Work (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - What is behind Israel's recent string of Nobel Prize winners? It could be that Israelis have a practical way of thinking and...
Jewish Group Supports German Breast Cancer Detection Tool That Employs Blind Women
JNS.org - As of 2005, German gynecologist Dr. Frank Hoffmann was no longer allowed to send women under the age of 50 to get...
Looking Back on 13 Years of Birthright Israel
JNS.org - Shira Kaiserman remembers her 2010 Taglit-Birthright Israel trip like it was yesterday. While the New Yorker's group was visiting Mount Herzl, the guide...
Bay Area Initiative Shows Strides in Integrating Israel Education into Curriculums
JNS.org - "In a beautiful valley, among vineyards and fields, there stood a tower with five floors. Who lived in the tower? On the...
Twitter Data Shows How U.S. and Europe Treat Online Anti-Semitism
JNS.0rg - Twitter on Friday agreed to release data identifying users to French authorities in response to a January ruling by a French court regarding...
Israel, Despite Divided Attitudes on LGBT Rights, Beats Arab Countries by a Mile
JNS.org - Should society accept homosexuality? In America, where the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26 decided to recognize same-sex marriages in states where it has...
Institutions in Chicago and Israel Want More, Cheaper Clean Water by 2020
JNS.org - Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is collaborating with the University of Chicago to fund nanotechnology research that aims to develop the...
Syrian Refugees Quietly Treated by Israel while UN Makes Latest ‘Parody of Itself’
A Syrian refugee is treated at Ziv Medical Center in Israel's northern city of Safed. Photo: Ziv Medical Center....
ADL’s Foxman Analyzes Intersection of Online Hate and Free Speech in New Book (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), on June 4 is releasing his new book VIRAL HATE: Containing Its Spread...
IDF Captain, One Hand Prosthetic and the Other Paralyzed, Still Yearns to Defend Israel
CHICAGO—By the time Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Captain Ziv Shilon realized an explosive device had detonated near him while on patrol near the Gaza border,...
In Violent Region where Boston Bombers Have Roots, Jews are Sparse but Maintain Relative Calm
Since the Boston Marathon explosions in April, the largely Muslim Russian territory of the North Caucasus has come back to the forefront via Chechnya, where...
British Indiana Jones Examines Evidence for Jewish Origin of Papua New Guinea Tribe (INTERVIEW)
During the 1990s, Welsh professor Tudor Parfitt, known around the world as the "British Indiana Jones," discovered evidence that the Lemba tribe in central Zimbabwe...
A Different Kind of Holocaust Remembrance (INTERVIEW)
"Legion Day" isn't the type of Holocaust remembrance ceremony that the Jewish community is used to. Every year on March 16, Latvia hosts a ceremony and...
