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US Sen. Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont) arrives at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, DC, March 7, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
October 10, 2018, 2:52 pm
Bernie Sanders cites Israel’s nation-state law in slam of Trump authoritarianism
Independent senator says Netanyahu passed controversial legislation, undermines two-state solution and ignores Gaza because he is confident US president will support him
By JTA
The team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins University gather round a mannequin. The university announced the first total penis and scrotum transplant on April 23, 2018. (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins)
April 24, 2018, 3:07 pm
US veteran who survived blast receives penis transplant
In most extensive operation of its kind, doctors rebuild entire pelvic region, including scrotum, of man injured in Afghanistan
By lauren neergard
'Magic mushrooms' containing psilocybin (Amanita77/Wikicommons)
February 21, 2016, 10:37 pm
Science seeks rabbis to do ‘shrooms
Johns Hopkins University study looks for religious leaders willing to imbibe psychedelic substance psilocybin
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Nahum Kovalski
June 11, 2015, 11:34 am
Nahum Kovalski
A landmark article
Doctors at Johns Hopkins usually don’t have radical ideas, but this time is different
Ascension Hall at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio (photo credit: Austin Godber/Wikimedia Commons)
December 24, 2013, 1:32 am
Kenyon and Indiana U. quit ASA over Israel boycott
US institutions join a growing backlash against the academic body, slamming it for stifling intellectual exchange
By Yoel Goldman
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un uses binoculars to view South Korean territory from an observation post on Jangjae Islet, in March 2013. (photo credit: AP/KCNA via KNS)
May 2, 2013, 10:17 am
N. Korea plutonium reactor said nearing completion
Satellite photos show finishing touches being put on light-water reactor at Yongbyon nuclear complex
An art therapist with a background in Jewish studies, Shira Frimer hopes her new book will inspire young children fighting cancer. (Avi Jacob)
February 12, 2013, 3:28 pm
Widow combines Kabbalah and comics to fight cancer
In a new graphic novel aimed at kids battling the disease, art therapist Shira Frimer turns her husband into a superhero
By Sharon Kanon
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90/File)
January 27, 2013, 3:20 am
New York’s Bloomberg breaks giving record with university gift
Mayor’s $350 million donation to Johns Hopkins pushes total to Baltimore school above billion-dollar mark
Gil Reich
August 22, 2012, 6:13 pm
Gil Reich
Right of passage
Outlawing circumcision is a flagrant overreach of governmental power over parental and religious rights
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