Photo: Israel resident Mylan Tanzer gets his third COVID vaccine. By Mylan Tanzer Tonight I got my third COVID jab. Israel now has a government that I trust, and I have always trusted our health authorities. So on Thursday, when the government announced that due to the waning effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in…
Photo: Magen David Adom began an extensive vaccination booster campaign on Sunday in nursing homes throughout Israel in an effort to curb the Delta variant and protect vulnerable populations. Under the direction of the Ministry of Health, Magen David Adom began an extensive vaccination booster campaign on Sunday in nursing homes throughout Israel in…
The Covid-19 pandemic led to expressions like “lockdown,” “isolation,” and “social distancing” becoming part of social conduct all over the world. Now it appears that bats also maintain social distancing, which might help prevent the spread of contagious diseases in their colonies. In a new study published in the “Annals of the New York…
COVID-19 has affected everyone around the globe, perhaps no group more than the elderly. The pandemic has caused us all to experience grief, whether it is the loss of income, disruption of our normal routines, or the loss of physical connection with loved ones. The loss of connection has hit our elderly the…
If you could save a life would you do it? If you had the opportunity would you take it? A group of individuals, including Portlander David Saltzman (brother of ORJL publisher Cindy Saltzman) started a 5013C called Breath of Life Africa, to do just that. The Breath of Life Africa aims to deliver life-saving…
On Feb. 4, just before enrollment for the COVID-19 vaccine was about to open up for seniors age 80 and up in Oregon, a board member of the nonprofit Positive Charge! PDX sent an email to co-founder, Sallie Pearlman Cohen about a post they had seen where someone offered to assist seniors with…
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease specialist, was awarded a $1 million Dan David Prize for “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging COVID crisis.” The Israel-based Dan David Foundation on Feb. 15 named President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser as the winner of one of three…
By Abigail Klein Leichman Photo: Dr. Nadir Arber in his lab where EXO-CD24 was developed. Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. Even with Israel’s world-leading rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, drugs to treat Covid patients are in desperate need across the world. Two such drugs developed in Israel show great promise in clinical…
There’s no doubt that next to frontline workers, teachers have had the most challenging year of their professional lives, having to shift from in-person to online learning in the blink of an eye. Still, teachers being the optimists they often are, rolled up their sleeves and soldiered on. We posed some questions to teachers about…
By Ilana Lowery It looks like distance learning is here to stay for a while longer – be it through hybrid instruction, cohorts of students divided into small groups, or a completely off-campus learning experience for kids. Parents and caregivers have many questions about how to make sure students are engaged and benefiting their learning…
