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The headline writers are calling the cold spell across Europe in recent weeks a new “Ice Age.” In an usually bitter winter, even for the northern part of the continent that deals with nature’s frigid excesses every year, 2011-12 is turning out to be memorable. It’s hitting southern Europe too, the death toll across Europe […]

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Every week, so many of us think of the news as what we see on front pages of newspapers. But every week there are families receiving life-changing news in the privacy of a doctor’s office. Parents and children suddenly acquire new vocabularies, words for esoteric diseases and treatments, awareness of cell counts, medications and machineries, […]

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, president of The Israel Project, announced last week that she plans to leave the organization she and two other women founded 10 years ago. During that decade, the Washington-based Israel Project has grown from an organization with no staff, based originally at Mizrahi’s former public relations firm, to one that now has […]

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