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A new study found that rain caused people to write more negative reviews of hotels, even if it was sunny during the actual stay
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News What makes you feel Jewish? For most Jews, Holocaust remembrance is at the top of the list.
The vast majority of American Jews view remembering the Holocaust as essential to their Jewish identities — more than religious activities like observing Jewish law or cultural ones like eating Jewish food, according to “American Jews in 2020,” released today by the Pew Research Center. More than 75% of survey respondents said that remembering the…
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Fast Forward Cavemen Had Great Posture, Israeli Researcher Finds
An Israeli scientist led a team of researchers in completing the first 3D virtual reconstruction of a Neanderthal skeleton, discovering that “cavemen” had great posture, contrary to mainstream beliefs. Ella Been of Ono Academic College, along with researchers from Israel, Spain and the United States, found that Neanderthals in fact had straighter spines than humans…
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Community Burning Poultry Poop Will Not Solve Climate Change
On November 20, JTA published a piece highlighting an Israeli research group’s findings that burning the excrement produced by turkey and other poultry could be a “greener” alternative to coal power. But burning poultry excrement to combat climate change is a load of chicken poop. To fight climate change and protect our environment, we have…
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Fast Forward 23andMe DNA Data Can Predict How You Look? Yes, Say Researchers
Researchers in California have created software for turning a person’s raw DNA data into a predictive picture of their face. Using anonymous data — the kind that genetics companies like 23andMe sell to pharmaceutical companies for research purposes — scientists from Human Longevity, Inc., a private genetics lab, have made computer generated images that resemble…
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Fast Forward Medical Marijuana Companies Use Israel As Testing Ground
Israel is becoming a center of American medical marijuana production and research, as U.S. companies move their grow houses and R&D operations to the Jewish State. It is much easier to conduct medical trials on drugs made from cannabis in Israel than it is in the U.S., where companies must spend several years getting approval…
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News Holocaust Museum Crowdsources the Hardest Question: What Did Americans Know — and When?
How did Americans react to the November Pogroms? What were their thoughts on the annexation of Austria? How much did they know about Auschwitz? These are just some of the questions that History Unfolded, a crowdsourcing project by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, seeks to answer. In the past, historians have done extensive research…
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