Posts Tagged: Tel Aviv University
Israeli Bioengineer Launches Project to Culture Chicken
JNS.org - A professor at Tel Aviv University has launched a research project studying the possibility of producing chicken meat in a lab. The...
Study: Teens Who Practice Judaism Are ’45 Percent Less Likely’ to Commit Suicide Than Their Secular Peers
A new study led by Tel Aviv University claims that religious Jewish teens are 45 percent less likely to exhibit suicide-prone behavior than secular Jewish adolescents,...
Israel’s Hebrew University Ranks in Top 25 Universities Worldwide
JNS.org - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ranked 22nd in the 2014 list of the world's best universities by the Saudi Arabia-based Center for World...
Does Anti-Semitism Threaten American Jews?
JNS.org - In a recent issue of Time magazine, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, former president of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes that anti-Semitism is...
Israel Economy Minister Bennett: ‘We Are Shifting Our Economic Resources to Bangalore, Africa and China, China, China’
Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett told a technology conference in Tel Aviv last week that "Israel is going east," with the government announcing a...
Israeli and Chinese Universities Partner to Open $300 Million Tech Research Center
JNS.org - Tel Aviv University (TAU) has announced that it is partnering with Beijing's Tsinghua University. The universities will invest $300 million to establish the...
Another Performance by The Times Trio
Nothing seems to please New York Times editors more than an opportunity to launch a multi-front fusillade against Israel, either in the Sunday Review section...
U.S.-Israeli Prof. Slams MLA Conference as Assault on Academic Freedom (INTERVIEW)
An American-Israeli professor, addressing a counter-conference on the sidelines of a polemical Modern Language Association annual meeting in Chicago, on Thursday said the MLA resolution seeking...
Israel, China Economic Cooperation in Focus With Chinese FM Visit to Jerusalem; Iran Nukes Also on Agenda
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was offered an Israeli welcome fitting of a head of state this week, with meetings in Jerusalem with both Prime...
Drought Led to Rise of Ancient Israelite Kingdom, Study Says
JNS.org - A series of major droughts may have led to the collapse of several great Bronze Age civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean between...
House of Mendelsohn: Jon Joins Lords, Nicola Leads Facebook to Israel
This has been a big week for the Mendelsohns of London, what with Jon being introduced to the House of Lords Wednesday, and Nicola bringing...
Tel Aviv University, China’s Tsinghua University to Create XIN Life Sciences Center in China
Tel Aviv University and China's Tsinghua University signed a broad-reaching collaboration agreement to develop life sciences research and development in China. In a statement reported by...
Jewish Professor Who Declined Honorary Polish Doctorate Because of Anti-Semitic Attacks is No Stranger to Discrimination
University of Leeds, U.K. Professor Emeritus Zygmunt Bauman, 87, author of Modernity and The Holocaust, turned down an honorary doctorate from the University of Lower Silesia,...
Poll Says 63% of Jews in Israel Oppose Withdrawal to 1967 Lines
JNS.org - Sixty-three percent of Israeli Jews oppose a withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines, with land swaps, as part of a permanent peace agreement with...
