A review of Suicide Behavior Among Arab Adolescents by Mohammed Morad, Efrat Merrick, Amir Schwarz, Joav Merrick

“…In this paper we present a review of research from Israel showing that suicide epidemiology among the Arab population of children and adolescents display a low incidence, but an increase has been observed over the past decade, but still much lower than the Jewish population. We believe that there is a need for the development of prevention and intervention strategies in order to keep this incidence low.…”
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Single-Dose Infliximab in Hepatitis C Genotype 1 Treatmentnaive Patients with High Serum Levels of Tumour Necrosis Factor-Alpha Does Not Influence the Efficacy of Pegylated Interfe... by Curtis Cooper, Stephen Shafran, Susan Greenbloom, Robert Enns, John Farley, Nir Hilzenrat, Kurt Williams, Magdy Elkashab, Nabil Abadir, Manuela Neuman

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Discernment - the compass on the high sea of spirituality by Kees Waaijman

“…First, it examines discernment as it is practised in the house of study in the Jewish tradition, and describes how this practice reveals two seminal dimensions of discernment. …”
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Justin Martyr – between Philosophy and the Second Sophistic by Justinas Ambrazas

“… Only relatively recently have researchers begun to speak more loudly about how studies on the Second Sophistic overlook Christian (and Jewish) literature. On the other hand, studies on early Christianity in turn view the Second Sophistic as an exclusively rhetorical movement. …”
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Kaposi´s sarcoma, epidemic type. Case presentation by Gilberto Serrano Ocaña, Juan Carlos Ortiz Sablon, Ilen Ochoa Tamayo

“…Before the AIDS epidemic, Kaposi's sarcoma was found mainly in elderly men of Mediterranean coast, eastern European background and Jewish ancestry (rarely in older women) and is a slow growing skin tumor. …”
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L’esthétique au prisme de la trans‑caribéanité : Perspectives décoloniales sur l’art jamaïcain et martiniquais by Frédéric Lefrançois

“…In the French and English-speaking Caribbean, this dilemma has tormented the aesthetic consciousness of three successive generations of artists inheriting a traumatic bequeathal, like the Jewish artists-legatees of the Shoah. What should be done with this inheritance? …”
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Epidural Brain Metastases in a Patient with Early Onset Pancreatic Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review by Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, Farah N. Khan

“…A 46-year-old Caucasian non-Jewish nonobese male with a history of PC diagnosed 3 months ago with metastases to the liver, omentum, malignant ascites, and a history of a pulmonary embolism was admitted to the hospital because of a new onset headache, nausea, and vomiting which started 2 days prior to the encounter. …”
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Optimal Use of Raltegravir (Isentress®) in the Treatment of HIV-Infected Adults – Canadian Consensus Guidelines by Anita Rachlis, Jonathan B Angel, Marianne Harris, Stephen D Shafran, Rachel Therrien, Cécile Tremblay, Mark A Wainberg

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Validation and Evaluation of Two Observational Pain Assessment Tools in a Trauma and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit by Jane Topolovec-Vranic, Celine Gélinas, Yangmei Li, Mary Ann Pollmann-Mudryj, Jennifer Innis, Amanda McFarlan, Sonya Canzian

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The Enigma of the Temple Site and the Word-play ‘Moriah’ by Martin Prudký

“…The name ‘Moriah’ is conventionally associated with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In Jewish tradition, this identification is attested in a number of texts, including one biblical reference (2 Chr 3:1). …”
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Territory, Jus ad Bellum: The Status of the Golan Heights in Light of the 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion by علی مسعودیان, سحر خوشدل

“…Israel has cited historical Jewish rule and invoked “defensive conquest” to justify its position. …”
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Improvements in Pain Outcomes in a Canadian Pediatric Teaching Hospital Following Implementation of a Multifaceted, Knowledge Translation Initiative by Lisa M Zhu, Jennifer Stinson, Lori Palozzi, Kevin Weingarten, Mary-Ellen Hogan, Silvia Duong, Ricardo Carbajal, Fiona A Campbell, Anna Taddio

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Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

“…The church, living in private household structures during the first centuries, took over the social-welfare tasks of the Greco-Roman household and reviewed them in the light of Hebrew and Hellenistic-Jewish moral traditions. …”
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Allele frequency of pathogenic variants causing acid sphingomyelinase deficiency and Gaucher disease in the general Japanese population by Shuhei Sako, Kimihiko Oishi, Hiroyuki Ida, Eri Imagawa

“…The incidences of ASMD and GD are known to be particularly high in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. Conversely, the number of reported patients with these diseases has been limited in Asian countries, including Japan. …”
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Comparing and Assessing Statistical Distance Metrics within the Christian Apostle Paul’s Letters by Luce Alessandra, Robertson Paul

“…We aim to determine which metrics are most accurate and provide the most useful information in comparing Paul’s letters to other types of literature such as Greco-Roman philosophy, formal oratory, and so-called Jewish apocalyptic literature. Such findings are especially salient when comparing these quantitative methods to qualitative conclusions from the biblical commentary traditions of literary analysis and comparison.…”
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L’invention du culte musulman dans l’Algérie coloniale du xixe siècle by Oissila Saaidia

“…If the framework seemed obvious for Catholic, Protestant and Jewish worship, despite some reluctance, what was there to say about Islam, the religion of the colonized? …”
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Is There a Reversal in the Effect of Obesity on Mortality in Old Age? by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Rotem Perach

“…Data were drawn from the Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study (CALAS), a national survey of a random sample of older Jewish persons in Israel conducted during 1989–1992. …”
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Zwischen logos und icon by Ulrich Engel

“…In the omissions and gaps that become apparent in these and structurally similar adaptations, de-emphasizations, and continuations, something appears that is already theologically inherent in the biblical prohibition of images. The Jewish prohibition of images is not an absolute one. …”
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Funding of the Papal Army’s Campaign to Germany during the Schmalkaldic War by Petr Vorel

“…The analysis is extended by three partial texts dealing with 1) so called Jewish tax that was announced by Paul III in the financial support of military campaign, 2) credit granting of this campaign by the bank house of Benvenuto Olivieri in connection with the collection of Papal tithe in the Romagna region and 3) staffing of the commanding officers of Papal army during this campaign (in the attachment one can find a reconstruction of the officers’ staff with identification of the most important commanders). …”
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The Historian and the Source: Some Contemporary Problems in Holocaust Historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“…Importantly, these are questions not only of today’s historical scholarship, but of the Jewish scholars who survived the Catastrophe immediately after the war. …”
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