The Times of Israel

In first since role created by Henry VIII, a Jew will helm Hebrew studies at Cambridge

Tue, 13 May 2025 02:39:41 +0000

Aaron Koller leaves Yeshiva University to take up post that was originally -- and until recently -- reserved for Anglican churchmen to teach Hebrew in the Anglican tradition

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As pro-Palestinian encampments spread to UK campuses, Sunak seeks to head off unrest

Sat, 11 May 2024 07:02:14 +0000

British PM meets with university heads after warning of antisemitism, with 'students and academic staff being targeted, threatened, and assaulted simply for being Jewish'

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Mysterious trilingual Cairo Geniza vocab list found to be penned by Maimonides

Fri, 19 May 2023 13:36:54 +0000

Housed at Cambridge University's Genizah Research Unit, crib sheet with words in Hebrew, Arabic and a Romance dialect gives a glimpse into renowned philosopher's method of thinking

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Study: Gaucher disease, common among Ashkenazi Jews, protects against tuberculosis

Sat, 06 May 2023 12:22:10 +0000

Cambridge University team discovers that specific cellular-level lipids that accumulate in the genetic disease attack and kill deadly TB bacterium, hope to develop new treatment

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UK museum to return painting stolen by Nazis to family of Jewish owner

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:35:52 +0000

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum surrenders 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet stolen from Paris apartment of Robert Bing in 1941

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Scientists alter kidney blood type, potentially increasing transplant availability

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:30:26 +0000

Study may have significant implications for patients from ethnic minorities, who are less likely to find a match for the majority of donated kidneys

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John Cleese axes university appearance after historian banned for Hitler parody

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:54:53 +0000

Student group walks back blacklisting of Andrew Graham-Dixon after Monty Python comedian says he's blacklisting himself in solidarity

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12,000-year-old Galilee artifacts reset plaster production clock by 2 millennia

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 07:33:55 +0000

Scientific study of plaster used in cemetery near Ein Gev indicates community must have worked together to bury their deceased, shedding new light on ritual and mass production

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Second London terror victim identified as Saskia Jones, 23

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 18:54:00 +0000

Jones, of Warwickshire, was a volunteer at the event marking prisoner rehabilitation where former convict Usman Khan went on deadly rampage

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Malaysian PM draws laughter with anti-Semitic jibe at UK’s Cambridge University

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:19:36 +0000

Debating union hosts Mahathir Mohamad, who says he has Jewish friends but they 'are not like other Jews'; Jewish group calls audience response 'chilling'

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Documentary unravels history — and digital future — of mysterious Cairo Geniza

Thu, 16 May 2019 01:32:04 +0000

Film includes interviews with 40 experts who chart the strange discovery and continued scholarship of the mass of rare random documents that make for a rich 'medieval Facebook'

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Oxford University accused of ‘social apartheid’ for low number of black students

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:01:46 +0000

10 of elite institution's 32 colleges accepted no black British students in 2015; Cambridge, where 6 colleges took no UK black students, blames low application rates

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Cambridge college sorry for confusion over Auschwitz photo on welcome pamphlet

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:56:52 +0000

Dean of Emmanuel College says implication image meant as a joke 'infuriating,' explains photo meant to accompany sermon about trip to death camp

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Sex and business among medieval Cairo’s Jews go on display at Cambridge

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:48:14 +0000

New exhibit showcases dozens of fragments, some newly translated, that tell the story of ordinary folks living under Islam in the Middle Ages

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Act on rising anti-Semitism, Jewish students tell UK universities

Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:51:48 +0000

Spate of recent incidents include appearance on campuses of swastikas, flyers praising Holocaust denial

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