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Neurologists at Jerusalem's Hadassah-University Hospital, Ein Kerem, are the first in the world to help multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients by injecting their spinal columns with large numbers of adult stem cells taken from their bone marrow and multiplied in culture. The clinical trial, while "encouraging" and "promising," remains highly experimental, as all the patients have undergone a single injection with no untreated control group for comparison. With the first patients having received it two years ago, it is too early to know how successful it will be in the long term. Prof. Dimitrios Karousis, a...

Israel and New Jersey jibe when it comes to stem cell research: They're two of the few places in the world that support embryonic stem-cell research. About 70 women from the Clifton-based North Jersey chapter of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, met on Thursday night to learn about stem cell research and consider donating money to the group's research unit within the Hadassah Medical Organization near Jerusalem. "It's ironic that Israel and Hadassah are positioned perfect for this," said Barry Schindler, patent attorney and guest speaker for the event, held at the Montclair Art Museum. In the U.S.,...

This week, Georgetown University began announcing the Fifth Annual Student Palestine Solidarity Conference on the University’s website using the same rhetoric that Duke University used in announcing a similar event almost two years ago. The Conference is being billed as a testimonial to the exercise of "freedom of speech" and the participants are telling everyone they are "peace activists" even though they refuse to condemn terrorism. And, in true form, Al-Awda, one of the main organizations of the ISM, immediately dispatched an open email to its membership. The following email was sent out as an “open letter” by Al Awda...

Mar. 2, 2005 21:29 | Updated Mar. 3, 2005 4:52 Hadassah nominated for Nobel prize By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Cited for its promotion of Jewish-Arab cooperation and human values despite the ongoing violence in the region it serves, the Hadassah Medical Organization has been nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The unnamed four nominators, who by Norwegian Nobel Committee rules can come only from the ranks of senior government officials or professors in their countries, are in the US, Canada, Australia and Israel. The previous Israeli Nobel Peace Prize laureates were Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres...

New York Mayor Pops Over To Jerusalem 16:03 Nov 24, '03 / 29 Cheshvan 5764Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and his 95-year-old mother Charlotte have arrived in Israel for a visit of a few hours. In honor of Charlotte's birthday, the family has donated an unspecified sum to build another three stories for what will be known as the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. The mayor and his mother will take part in the inauguration ceremony. "This is really some story," said journalist Uri Dan. "For Charlotte, who was long...

Keren Hasseyod staged an event yesterday evening at the Jewish Community center in Frankfurt. There were two speakers, Esther Schapira and Dr. Dorit Nitzan of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Ms. Schapira, a freelance journalist/producer with ARD TV in Germany, talked about the responses she received after her documentary about the shooting of a Palestinian boy in the Gaza strip was aired. That shooting, of a young Arab boy named Mohammed Durra, came at the beginning of the second Intifada and quickly became a symbol for anti-Israeli people everywhere to rally around. In her research, Schapira discovered that the bullets fired...