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  • Stunning results with Hadassah's stem cell treatment

    Nov 18, 2016

    The Hadassah Medical Center is continuing to receive positive findings with its Phase II clinical trial using its unique stem cell approach to stop the progression and reversing the disabilities of multiple sclerosis. The Hadassah-developed treatment involves intrathecal injection-injection of the patient's own bone marrow-derived stem cells directly into the spinal fluid-so that the cells circulate all the way around the brain and the spinal cord, where they are needed. Hadassah began its...

  • Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA

    Nov 18, 2016

    New York Observer, owned by Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, ceases print edition (JTA)—The New York Observer, a weekly newspaper owned by President-elect Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner, will cease publishing a print edition. The Nov. 9 edition was the last print edition, the Observer’s parent company, Observer Media, announced in a statement. The newspaper will continue to be available online as Observer.com. The decision to end the print edition and change its name “signals an end of an era when The Observer served as a fixture of M...

  • Dutch mark Kristallnacht as Europe, U.S. confront a wave of right-wing populism

    Cnaan Liphshiz|Nov 18, 2016

    AMSTERDAM (JTA)—His name was never mentioned during the Netherlands’ main commemoration event for Kristallnacht, but Donald Trump was likely on everyone’s mind at the ceremony at the Dutch capital’s majestic Portuguese Synagogue. It wasn’t for any imagined parallels between Trump’s election as U.S. president and the campaign of violence that the Nazis unleashed 78 years ago against German and Austrian Jews, which many historians see as the opening shot of the Holocaust. Most European Jews, whose families still live in the shadow of that pogrom...