Israel curbing Arab enrollment in medical schools, activists say
2012-05-28T05:16:13Z

Officials told him he kept failing the pre-admission personality interview, but the 25-year-old Arab Israeli suspects another reason: He believes that recent changes in the enrollment process are designed to discourage non-Jewish applicants.

Ruby Wax wins Jewish Care award
2012-05-23T23:58:50Z

Although Ruby Wax declared herself thrilled to have won Jew of the Year award , it was actually the Jewish Care Woman of Distinction accolade, presented at a central-London lunch on Wednesday. Honoured for raising awareness of mental health issues ...

'Reclaiming Jewish Activism': easier said than done
2012-05-17T00:57:15Z

A panel in which three local activists will talk about how their Jewish ancestors inform their present-day ... She has since organized to spread a boycott of Ahava products, Dead Sea beauty products made in an illegal settlement in the ...

Barnes-Jewish will pay in overbilling case
2012-05-18T04:45:07Z

Barnes-Jewish "did not have adequate controls to prevent incorrect billing of Medicare claims," according to the report from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General. The billing errors involved calculation mistakes on ...

After two-year legal battle, Chabad Jewish Center of Pierce County to open on Tacoma's West End
2012-05-25T23:56:28Z

After a two-year legal battle and nearly a year of construction, an Orthodox Jewish group is about to open its $ ... The building attests to its beauty. Heber started Chabad of Pierce County in November 2003. For most of that time, it has ...

Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Mark Levinson to Receive National Jewish Health Humanitarian Award on June 2
2012-05-24T22:38:54Z

Mark Levinson, shareholder with international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, will receive the National Jewish Health Humanitarian Award at its annual Black and White Ball in Beverly Hills on June 2. Honored for his professional and philanthropic work with ...

Up all night: A glimpse of Shavuot eve in Tel Aviv
2012-05-28T04:47:35Z

In the second theater space, a lively debate about conversion is taking place, and down the hallway, in the annex near the entrance to another club, where teenage girls in sequined tight tops and boys with gelled hair are lining up, a session on Jewish ...

Odessa Still Throbs With Jewish Life
2012-05-21T08:59:16Z

Even the famed Jewish district, Moldavanka, derives from the word for a Moldovan girl. On Jew Street today you can find the Choral Synagogue and, not far from there, the Brodsky Synagogue and the Hasidic Eishes Chayil hair salon, where women can get ...

Pentecost: a Christian celebration with Jewish roots
2012-05-25T07:07:09Z

Shavuot,a Jewish festival of historical and agricultural importance ... The event promises free food and drinks, along with vendor tables set up for community health and wellness as well as beauty programs. For more information call 614-847-2057or ...