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"The Next List" to feature global solar power pioneer; broadcast change due to events in Boston JERUSALEM, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, May 11th, at 2:30p.m. EST, Israeli solar pioneer Yosef Abramowitz will be featured on CNN's "The Next List."  Abramowitz is the first Israeli to appear on the 30-minute weekend program, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, which profiles innovators, visionaries and agents of change from around the globe.  The original broadcast timing was postponed...

HOLLYWOOD, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Stereo Vision Entertainment Inc. (OTC: SVSN) announced today that Academy Award winning screenwriter Pamela Wallace has signed on to deliver the final screenplay for Stereo Vision's faith based 3D feature film "Three Dimensions Of Jerusalem." Ms. Wallace won a 'Best Original Screenplay' Academy Award for 'Witness.' "Our little movie's growing up," said Stereo Vision's CEO Jack Honour. 'Three Dimensions Of Jerusalem' is the Stereo Vision...

JERUSALEM, January 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Several hundred members of Israel's Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) community joined high-tech CEOs and investors at Israel's first-ever High-Tech Conference for the Haredi Sector. The groundbreaking event was spearheaded by JVP [http://www.jvpvc.com ], one of Israel's leading venture capital firms, and its founder and chairman, Erel Margalit, together with Haredi high-tech entrepreneur Yitzik Crombie, founder of the Haredi High-Tech...

NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC has filed an amicus brief in support of a Jerusalem family seeking to list Israel as their son's place of birth in his U.S. passport. The case, Zivotofsky v. the Secretary of State, was remanded to the Court of Appeals in March by the U.S. Supreme Court. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "The central issue is whether Congress or the President has the sole constitutional prerogative to determine rules on...

JERUSALEM, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology to orally administer medications offers far-reaching impact in healthcare industry Announcing its third patent approval since the beginning of the calendar year, Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB:ORMP.OB) (www [http://www.oramed.com ] . [http://www.oramed.com ] oramed [http://www.oramed.com ] . [http://www.oramed.com ] com [http://www.oramed.com ]), a developer of oral drug delivery systems...

In his new book, LAST JOURNEY OF THE ARK, J.J. Gainer tells an exciting story inspired by Operation Solomon, the May 24-25, 1991 covert airlift that brought 14,000 Ethiopian Jews and possibly brought the Ark of the Covenant to Israel. Nominated for the Dan Poynter Award. Arlington, TX (PRWEB) June 19, 2012 Ethel Feldman, the heroine of LAST JOURNEY OF THE ARK was a beautiful, multilingual and multiethnic New York columnist. Seeking work as a TV journalist she embarked on the most...

JERUSALEM, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB: ORMP.OB) (http://www.oramed.com), a developer of oral drug delivery systems, announced today that it has received approval for a key patent by the New Zealand Patent Office. The patent, entitled "Methods and Compositions for Oral Administration of Exenatide," covers oral exenatide compositions made using the company's technology. Oramed's portfolio now consists of three issued patents and 34 patents...

Our solar system is four and a half billion years old, but its formation may have occurred over a shorter period of time than we previously thought, says an international team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and universities and laboratories in the US and Japan. Establishing chronologies of past events or determining ages of objects require having clocks that tick at different paces, according to how far back one looks. Nuclear clocks, used for dating, are based on...

Following the recent announcement of the discovery of the earliest known Christian imagery in the exploration of a sealed first century Jerusalem tomb, controversy predictably erupted, with numerous members of the community of biblical scholars offering alternate interpretations of the iconography and disputing the tomb's claimed Christian connections. Now, the exploration team has announced a previously unnoticed but highly specific detail that appears to confirm the original...

NEW YORK, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Jewish Congress praised the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of Zivotofsky v. Clinton, which determined that federal courts can decide whether American citizens born in Jerusalem to have the right to list "Jerusalem, Israel" as their place of birth on their U.S. passports. The justices decided overwhelmingly by a vote of 8 to 1 to overturn a previous decision by a lower court that had determined that the...