Joy Resmovits
By Joy Resmovits
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News Triangle Factory Employee’s Great-Granddaughter Crafts a Tribute
Like all other mornings, on March 25, 1911, Rose Bernstein had planned to arrive at 245 Greene Street, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, and begin working. Instead, a sibling fell ill, so she stayed home — thus avoiding the tragic fate of other colleagues who died or were injured in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire later…
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News Alan Dershowitz: Above the Assange Fray
Another day, another Jewish conspiracy. And another smear campaign against Julian Assange? Here’s what happened. According to the New York Times, Julian Assange called Ian Hislop, the editor of British magazine Private Eye on Feb. 16 and rambled on and on about a Jewish conspiracy spearheaded by the UK’s Guardian newspaper. The Times reports: He…
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News A Day in the Life of an Israeli Hospital, Cutting Edge Meets Ordinary Problems
As the rest of my family spent the day shopping in this picturesque port city on the Mediterranean, I was a few miles away in the hospital — not as a patient, thankfully, but as an observer. In an attempt to learn as much as possible about Israel’s emerging medical technologies, I passed the day…
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News High-Profile Law Professor Dershowitz Joins WikiLeaks’ U.S. Defense Team
Alan Dershowitz is no stranger to high-profile cases: He represented kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst after a robbery conviction, helped boxer Mike Tyson try to appeal a rape conviction and signed on to O.J. Simpson’s legal “dream team.” But never before has the famed Harvard University law professor had a client who upended the entire…
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News Once Again, Lobbyists Mobilize To Oppose Limits On Abortion
Jewish groups are signing letters, dispatching lobbyists and mobilizing grass roots efforts in opposition to a wave of proposals being pushed by the newly installed Republican majority in the House of Representatives, to restrict abortion and family-planning funding. The Jewish groups are alarmed about proposals that would bar government funding of abortions for low-income women,…
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News Two Countries, Two Approaches To Regulating Embryonic Stem-Cell Use
Between 1998 and 2007, Israeli academics researching human embryonic stem cells published 55 papers in scientific publications on the topic, according to an article in the scientific journal Cell Stem Cell. During this same time period, researchers in the United States published 150 stem-cell research papers. This means that Israel, with a population of 7.4…
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News May Brain-Dead Jews Donate Organs for Transplant?
With recent pronouncements from Orthodox authorities diverging in multiple directions, uncertainty reins on just when and under what conditions traditionally observant Jews may donate their vital organs to save others. Under strong fire, the country’s major Modern Orthodox rabbinic body is seeking to clarify its position on a study by its own authorities that is…
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News Orthodox Rabbinic Group Seeks To Clarify Stance on Organ Donation
Under strong fire, the country’s major Modern Orthodox rabbinic body is seeking to clarify its position on a study by its own authorities that is seen as casting doubt on the permissibility of vital organ donation by Jews who are brain dead, yet upholding the right of Jews to receive such organs. In a statement…
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