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Max Stern Art Restitution update: Tax break allows owners of Nazi-looted art to keep paintings
Editor’s note: For many years, the Montreal-based Max Stern Art Restitution Project has been seeking to reclaim artworks stolen by…
Winn Feline Foundation selects Hebrew U for one of its research awards
Winn Feline Foundation announced in May that it has awarded $307,679 for 16 grants in feline medical research. The foundation…
Hebrew U co-developed text-messaging initiative to curb smoking in IDF sees success
Silhouetted Israeli soldiers from the Home Front Command Unit take a smoking break during an urban…
Hebrew U Prof Yuval Shany: Judicial activism? It depends who you ask
Editor’s note: Professor Yuval Shany is VP of the Israel Democracy Institute and a professor at Hebrew University’s Faculty of…
Hebrew U PhD student investigates Israel’s cocktail culture scene
Editor’s note: Naama Barak is a PhD student at Hebrew University and also writes for ISRAEL21c. She loves all things…
New book on influential Hebrew U Prof. Gershom Scholem’s pre-Nazi Germany family history
Editor’s note: From his vantage as a professor at Hebrew University, Gershom Scholem influenced the development of intellectual and political…
Hebrew University leads the pack: More PhD degrees to be awarded this year than at any other Israeli university
Coinciding with the 2019 Board of Governors, weeklong events to focus on Jerusalem’s high-tech arena (Jerusalem, June 12, 2019) —…
Simple speech-to-touch sensory substitution device can improve hearing
A novel study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience provides the first evidence that a simple and inexpensive non-invasive speech-to-touch…
An evening with Hebrew U graduate Nobuki Sugihara: A ‘family’ reunion
Editor’s note: Nobuki Sugihara’s father, Chiune, a diplomat at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania during WWII, saved thousands of…