1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (584+ words) Exposure to cigarette smoke at home is associated with poorer sleep quality among children, according to an Israeli study that measured tobacco exposure through biological markers. Previous research linked secondhand smoke exposure to higher rates of snoring, insomnia and sleep-disordered…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (537+ words) Israel’s adult smoking rate has remained virtually unchanged for nearly a decade despite government efforts to reduce tobacco use, while growing numbers of children and teens are experimenting with e-cigarettes, according to the Health Ministry’s annual smoking report released Thursday....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (992+ words) The Maccabiah Games bring together thousands of Jewish athletes from across the globe to compete under the flags of their home countries. But among this year’s competitors is a unique group of athletes who now call Israel home while proudly…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (559+ words) For years, conventional wisdom has held that Millennials, Gen Z and Generation Alpha define the social-media conversation and digital activism. They are the experts, we are told, the only ones who understand the language of algorithms and memes. Conventional wisdom…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (534+ words) An eight-month-old Israeli infant has become the first patient in the world to receive an experimental gene therapy that researchers say could pave the way for treating severe and previously untreatable forms of genetic epilepsy. The therapy was administered at…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (590+ words) Ten children from Malawi arrived in Israel this week to undergo life-saving cardiac treatment, marking a milestone in the growing humanitarian and medical partnership between the Jewish state and the southeastern African nation. The young patients, accompanied by eight mothers…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (303+ words) Numerous lawsuits related to campus antisemitism against American institutions of higher learning are pending in jurisdictions throughout the United States, some brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. One of them, filed on May 26 by the DOJ against the Regents of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (496+ words) While adults debate how artificial intelligence should be used in schools, students have already decided for themselves, according to a survey by the Israel Internet Association. The findings suggest AI tools have become routine in teenage learning, while oversight and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (444+ words) I traveled to Sacramento last week with several dozen congregants to participate in Jewish California’s Capitol Summit. During two impactful days, we advocated for bubble zones around schools and houses of worship, security grants and social services for all Californians....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (724+ words) In Israel today, educators are grieving students. Yet we do not have the language to describe what that grief means. After every round of war, we count the fallen. We speak of families, of parents, of siblings—and rightly so....