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Pinchas Cohen speaks at the USC Asian Health and Longevity Symposium on February 27, 2026. (Courtesy via JTA)
April 17, 2026, 2:50 am
Many peptides are named to sound like Yiddish words. Here’s why
Pinchas Cohen is the Jewish USC researcher behind discoveries like SHLP (‘schlep’), SHMOOSE and MENTSH, biological molecules that may help cure ailments and reverse aging
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Prof. Avi Loeb appears on the Joe Rogan Experience, October 28, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)
November 9, 2025, 3:34 am
Astronomer Avi Loeb warns world not to ignore new comet’s potential alien threat
Israel-born Harvard scientist, no stranger to controversy, has asked Kim Kardashian to join his research team after the celeb got some answers about 3I/ATLAS from a recalcitrant NASA head
By Rich Tenorio
Alycia Debnam-Carey as Milla (left), and Aisha Dee as Chanelle in Netflix's 'Apple Cider Vinegar.' (Courtesy of Netflix via JTA)
February 16, 2025, 4:46 pm
Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ features a Jewish-run ‘cancer clinic.’ What is it?
The show is based on the true story of two less-than-honest wellness influencers – and an institute in Mexico founded by the daughter of a German Jew who fled the Holocaust
By Andrew Lapin
Elad Gilon finds a Russell species of fungi. He is doing research to determine if it is edible. (Emmanuel Sarid)
October 15, 2024, 6:04 am
In first, doctoral candidate enlists foragers across Israel to help map mushroom DNA
There are over 1,000 species of fungi in the Holy Land; what started as one scientist’s hobby has mushroomed into a collective effort on a scale never before seen in the country
By Diana Bletter
Dr. Benjamin Neel in 2019. (Courtesy)
March 31, 2024, 12:42 am
Cancer doc speaks out on suit against NYU Langone for termination over anti-Hamas posts
Researcher Dr. Benjamin Neel claims his former employer tarnished his reputation after firing him, but reinstalled another doctor who described the Oct. 7 atrocities as ‘liberation’
By Cathryn J. Prince
Dr. Or Kakhlon in his Jerusalem laboratory. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2024, 3:05 pm
Israeli scientists harness molecule to treat rare disease common in Ashkenazim
Research team isolates GHF-201 to fight APBD, a nervous system disorder mostly found in Jews of Eastern European descent, as patients eagerly await the green light for treatment
By Diana Bletter
Undated photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. (AP Photo, File)
November 29, 2023, 10:30 pm
Signed Albert Einstein quote on sale for $65,000
Card stating ‘The greatest value of knowledge lies in knowledge itself’ is available for purchase online
By Gavriel Fiske
Prof. Avi Loeb, center, on a scientific expedition off of the coast of Papua New Guinea in June 2023 to identify parts of a possible interstellar meteor that crashed in 2014. (Courtesy of Loeb)
July 27, 2023, 2:43 am
Avi Loeb’s claims of finding possible alien technology are polarizing scientists
Funded by a crypto mogul, the Israel-born Harvard professor says a meteor that exploded off the coast of Papua New Guinea may be the first interstellar object found by humanity
By Rich Tenorio
Ben Abeles, photographed in 2008 in front of the Kindertransport memorial at the Liverpool Street station in London, where the children arrived after boarding the train in Harwich. (Courtesy of Helen Abeles)
July 13, 2023, 1:12 am
Tech developed by refugee who fled Nazis to UK used today by NASA on Mars
Family of Jewish physicist Benjamin Abeles, who was on a Kindertransport as a teen and became an activist to help refugees in his 80s, donates archive to University of Southampton
By Robert Philpot
Prof. Avi Loeb at the Harvard College Observatory, March 1, 2022. (Courtesy of Leslie Kean)
August 9, 2022, 5:58 am
Israeli scientist proves his far-out theory on interstellar meteor is down to earth
Undeterred by naysayers or controversy, Prof. Avi Loeb stuck to his guns about a rare 2014 space rock — and his findings have finally been vindicated by the US government
By Rich Tenorio
Gertrude Goldhaber in her office in this undated photo. (Gertrude S. Goldhaber Collection, Leo Baeck Institute)
March 27, 2022, 8:34 pm
When women – and Jews – were forced out of sciences, this Nazi-era pioneer persisted
Gertrude Goldhaber fled the Holocaust to become a renowned US researcher and women’s rights activist. Her son is gifting a treasure trove of documents to NYC’s Leo Baeck Institute
By Cathryn J. Prince
A still from 'Adventures of a Mathematician' by filmmaker Thor Klein. (Courtesy Dragonfly Films)
December 24, 2021, 5:51 am
Helping the US get the bomb, this Jewish mathematician faced an ethical problem
New film ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ follows Stan Ulam, who lost nearly his entire family in the Holocaust, as he helps his new homeland’s nuclear efforts during and after WWII
By Rich Tenorio
Otto Warburg in his laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. (The German Federal Archives)
September 3, 2021, 10:39 pm
Why the Nazis allowed a Jewish cancer scientist to remain in Berlin during WWII
Sam Apple’s new book ‘Ravenous’ tackles the fascinating scientific nexus between cellular metabolism and oncogenes, warning of a link between excessive sugar consumption and cancer
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Professor Steven Weinberg, then of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 15, 1979. (AP Photo/File)
July 26, 2021, 8:53 pm
Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies at 88
Jewish professor was recognized in 1979 with work on mysteries of tiny particles and their electromagnetic interaction that built on Einstein’s theory of relativity
By AP and ToI Staff
This photo of Dr. Robert Lefkowitz in his office at Duke University captures a pose that all of his trainees will undoubtedly find familiar: feet up on the desk, smile on his face, exulting over the latest data. (Courtesy)
March 1, 2021, 3:50 am
How a Nobel-winning ‘accidental scientist’ changed the world by saving himself
Robert Lefkowitz documents his career, culminating in a discovery used in 50% of FDA approved drugs in new memoir, ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm,’ out this month
By Rich Tenorio
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