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Israel's Right to Self-Defense
Date: 2010-02-24
"The headlines and video images allegedly showing Israeli spies in Dubai are titillating, but they mask the serious issues involved in the death of Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Along with predictable European hand-wringing over forged passports, this case is the latest example of the failure of the international legal system and the United Nations to provide a remedy to mass terror," writes Prof. Gerald Steinberg, of the Department of Political Science, in The Wall Street Journal.A chance to save the coral reefs
Date: 2010-02-17
"Prof. Zvy Dubinsky and his team of researchers from the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences have just been awarded a prestigious $4 million grant from the European Research Council to study the effects of global warming on corals in the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the hope that they can come up with data that will help scientists bio-engineer remedies to global warming in advance," reports Israel 21c.FM: If Syria provokes Israel, Assad will be out of power
Date: 2010-02-04
Speaking at the Bar-Ilan University Business Forum, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman blasted Syrian President Bashar Assad for saying Israel was "leading the region towards war," and warned the leadership in Damascus that in the next war, Syria would be defeated by Israel, reports The Jerusalem Post.Where CD-ROMs and Rambam Come Together
Date: 2010-02-01
The Bar-Ilan University Responsa Project, now in its 17th edition, is a software that allows one to search ancient Jewish texts, and has been nicknamed "The Jewish Google". The Project, which received the Israel Prize in Torah Literature in 2007, was profiled in an article published by Haaretz.Holocaust education unifying, important to Israeli educators and pupils survey shows
Date: 2010-01-19
Dr. Erik Cohen, of Bar-Ilan's School of Education, recently conducted a study which found that Holocaust education is one of the most meaningful and unifying areas of study in the Israeli school system, as reported by The Jerusalem Post, Ynet, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, among others.Can Jewish law keep up?
Date: 2010-01-19
The Jerusalem Post reports on the latest meeting of a group of halachic scholars and scientists at Bar-Ilan University's Nitzotzot ["sparks"] lecture series, held at the Ludwig and Erica Jesselson Institute of Advanced Jewish Studies.Educators Going Viral
Date: 2010-01-17
The Jim Joseph Foundation Fellowship Program for Jewish educators, which is being directed by Bar-Ilan University's Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, is profiled in the New York Jewish Week.Materials Science Research Team Receives Top Worldwide Ranking
Posted: 10/12/2006
Bar-Ilan University's Materials Science research group has been ranked number three in the world in a recently published study in the Israel Chemical Society's "Chemistry in Israel" magazine. 2010 BFBIU