A groundbreaking discovery of a unique mutation in a gene that could be one of the causes of premature ovarian failure (also known as primary ovarian insufficiency, or POI). A Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Schneider Children’s Medical Center study reports of a previously-unidentified cause of POI in humans —...

Turkey in recent days has faced renewed criticism for bolstering non-state Islamist actors, including those who seek to supplant traditional American allies across the region and who are committed to the eradication of Israel. Reports over the weekend conveyed a shift in Qatari foreign policy, away from its traditional ally...

The AMCHA Initiative, an organization dedicated to “investigate, document, educate about, and combat antisemitic behavior on college and university campuses,” announced Monday that the University of California system had affirmed that professors were prohibited from promoting anti-Israel boycotts in class. The affirmation came in the form of a letter from the university’s...

Amid recent Kurdish battle victories against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and promised American military aid, the Kurdish dream of an independent state may soon be getting at least tacit American support, according to a report Monday by Eli Lake of Bloomberg News. These battlefield victories underline an equally...

The Arab newspaper Rai Al-Aam reports (Arabic link) that tensions inside the terrorist organization Hamas are pitting factions who support Iran and the Syrian regime against those who are based in Qatar. The origin of this internal Hamas conflict centers on the decision by Hamas’s political leadership and its chairman Khaled...

Amid a growing call for Israel to negotiate with Hamas just as Great Britain negotiated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), Eamonn MacDonagh responds in On the False Parallel Between Gaza and Northern Ireland, in the December 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine by saying that such comparisons are a “fairy tale” that...

The Qatari-owned TV network Al-Jazeera has done an about-face in the last few days, replacing its previous negative coverage of Egypt with more positive spin – apparently in response (Arabic link) to reconciliation over the weekend between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and a special envoy of the emir of Qatar....

The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, affiliated with the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, reported (Arabic link) that Tehran has opened new credit lines to Syria, topping off a financial aid package worth more than $6 billion. The report also claimed that game-changing Russian arms are en route to the Syrian regime, and that...

An estimated 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma, a chronic disease marked by recurrent attacks of breathlessness and wheezing as the lining of the lungs’ bronchial tubes swells and narrows the airways. A new study suggests that a vitamin D deficiency – a common problem — increases the likelihood...

With the assistance of American airstrikes, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have pushed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces back in Sinjar, securing much of the city and freeing hundreds of Yazidis, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. In one of the most successful counterattacks against the extremists since the group...