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yoav@negevdirect.com 05/25/2011

Sharon Temkin Portnoy has joined the Forward Association, publisher of the Forward newspaper, as Director of Development. Portnoy joins the Forward from Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America.  During her tenure with Hadassah,…

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Meanwhile, In Beersheva…

yoav@negevdirect.com 05/05/2011

  Ben-Gurion University researcher Alberto Bilenca, Ph.D., has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Dr. Bilenca has developed a fast, low-cost device to accurately diagnose malaria in the field without having to draw…

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Salons for the Savvy Organization

yoav@negevdirect.com 03/29/2011

Today’s eJewish Philanthropy features an article by Susan Weidman Schneider, one of Lilith Magazines founders, on the concept on Salons. She writes…Salons, popular among intellectually curious and avant-garde Jewish women from the eighteenth century onward,…

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Hebrew Free Burial Association in the News

yoav@negevdirect.com 03/01/2011

In an article entitled “A century after one of N.Y.’s worst fires, we still struggle with how to bury the poor” the New York Daily News mark’s the 100th anniversary of the infamous Triangle Shirt…

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Salvador Dali, Zionist

yoav@negevdirect.com 02/15/2011

Who knew? In 1968 Dali produced a limited edition set of 25 colored lithographs to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. The title piece of the suite, reproduced…

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Mind The Gender Gap

yoav@negevdirect.com 12/14/2010

Here’s some rather unpleasant news. Ace reporter Jane Eisner of The Forward finds that women continue to lag behind men in both representation and compensation in Jewish communal organizations. The Forward’s second annual survey of…

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Stop the Press! Forward Names Surman Associate Publisher

yoav@negevdirect.com 12/02/2010

The Forward, America’s most influential Jewish weekly newspaper and website, has appointed Barry S. Surman associate publisher. In his position, Surman will be responsible for growing both the print and digital revenues of the Forward…

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The Global Day of Jewish Learning

yoav@negevdirect.com 11/03/2010

What: The Global Day of Jewish Learning When: 11.7.10 About: “On November 7, 2010, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz will complete his monumental translation and commentary on the Talmud. His mission has been to give Jewish…

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