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Rare transplant

photo - Prof. Eytan Mor, left, and Dr. Evyatar Nesher with a kidney transplant recipient at Petach Tikvah’s Beilinson Hospital, which is part of the Rabin Medical Centre. Mor is director of the transplant department and Nesher, the department’s deputy head

Prof. Eytan Mor, left, and Dr. Evyatar Nesher with a kidney transplant recipient at Petach Tikvah’s Beilinson Hospital, which is part of the Rabin Medical Centre. Mor is director of the transplant department and Nesher, the department’s deputy head. (photo…

הצטברות חובות

photo - Toronto’s Trump International Hotel and Tower

למלון הדירות טראמפ אינטרנשיונל הוטל ומגדל טורונטו. (צילום: Secondarywaltz via commons.wikimedia.org) קנדה לא תבחר בדונלד טראמפ: המלון דירות בטורונטו שבניהולו מוצע למכירה עקב הצטברות חובות בהיקף 260 מיליון דולר אין זה סוד שהקנדים לא אוהבים את המועמד של המפלגה הרפובליקנית…

Yisrael Beitenu in coalition

photo - Avigdor Lieberman takes his seat in the Knesset on the afternoon of May 30 in his new role as defence minister

Avigdor Lieberman takes his seat in the Knesset on the afternoon of May 30 in his new role as defence minister. (photo from Ashernet) For some time now Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been trying to enlarge his right-wing coalition…

Help for substance abusers

photo - Rebecca Denham, director of services for Jewish Addiction Community Service of Vancouver

Rebecca Denham, director of services for Jewish Addiction Community Service of Vancouver. (photo by Wendy Oberlander) The first comprehensive effort to reach Jewish individuals suffering from addictions launched this month in Vancouver when the Jewish Addiction Community Service of Vancouver…

The stories of nine orphans

photo - The Open Hearts, Closed Doors exhibit combines placards of mixed visual and textual material with beautifully done recreations of photo albums telling the stories of the survivors featured

The Open Hearts, Closed Doors exhibit combines placards of mixed visual and textual material. (photo from Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre) “One out of every 122 people alive currently is displaced. That means 60 million people,” says Phillipa Friedland, education coordinator…

Seek Peace initiative

photo - Steve McDonald, deputy director of communications and public affairs for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

Steve McDonald, deputy director of communications and public affairs for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. (photo from of Steve McDonald) Every day, a handful of the approximately 500 volunteers at Road to Recovery head to one of the…

Learn ballroom, Latin

photo - Dmitry Rusak with Diane MacKenzie win first place silver level at the Grand Ballroom Competition in Richmond on June 23, 2012

Dmitry Rusak with Diane MacKenzie win first place silver level at the Grand Ballroom Competition in Richmond on June 23, 2012. (photo from Dmitry Rusak) Crimea may seem an unlikely place to embark on a journey into the world of…

Sarcophagi returned to Egypt

photo - Egyptian sarcophagi cover

(photo from Israel Antiquities Authority) One of two Egyptian sarcophagi covers – one dating to between the 10th and 8th centuries BCE (Iron Age) and the other to between the 16th and 14th centuries BCE (the late Bronze Age) –…

Stop negotiating, says Pipes

photo - Gina Faigen, daughter of the late Dr. Morris H. Faigen, who founded the annual Faigen Family Lecture Series, with this year’s speaker Daniel Pipes

Gina Faigen, daughter of the late Dr. Morris H. Faigen, who founded the annual Faigen Family Lecture Series, with this year’s speaker Daniel Pipes. (photo by Jocelyne Hallé) Israel should stop trying to find a negotiated solution that provides a…

Making healthy connections

photo - High-tech entrepreneur Galya Westler is at TEDxStanleyPark on May 28

High-tech entrepreneur Galya Westler is at TEDxStanleyPark on May 28. (photo from Galya Westler) The social media available to help us connect with one another are ever-increasing, but they are not always effective. In fact, they often have the opposite…