Madoff scandal rocks Jewish philanthropic world December 15, 2008 1:03 am Richard Joel is president of Yeshiva University, which is said to be at risk of losing at least $100 million in connection with Bernard Madoff s alleged financial scheme. (Ben Harris)
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NEW YORK (JTA) The securities fraud of Bernard Madoff has rocked the Jewish nonprofit world and the worst may be yet to come.
Madoff, the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was arrested Dec. 11 after admitting to his board that a hedge fund he ran was essentially a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
At least two foundations have been forced to close because they had invested their funds with Madoff.
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Every year, doctors diagnose millions of people with tumors, blood clots and other masses in their brains. In each case, doctors must weigh the benefits of surgery against possible long-term neurological damage.
“Imagine having to decide between removing someone’s tumor to give them more time to live, but in the process of that they lose their ability to speak,” says Prof. Moshe Shoham, a professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and a serial entrepreneur. “Which is really the better choice?”
To reduce dilemmas like this and shorten recovery times, Shoham’s latest startup, Tamar Robotics, is developing a surgical robot that aims to revolutionize brain surgery, finally giving doctors a safer, minimally invasive tool to remove tumors and blood clots and treat other life-threatening brain conditions that now require major surgery. “We hope we will be able to let the people suffering from these conditions get back to their lives,” Shoham s
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Meet six Druze leaders changing Israel for the better
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(April 1, 2021 / Israel21c) The Druze of northern Israel are a tiny religious and ethnic minority. Neither Muslim nor Christian, they comprise just 145,000 of the country’s 1.95 million Arab citizens. Yet Druze Israelis are well represented at senior levels in academia, politics, the military, science, medicine, arts, sports and business.
“Relative to our numbers we are very accomplished, just like the Jews are in the world,” says Druze Israeli entrepreneur Aiman Amer (see his profile below). “We’ve learned from the best.”
Amer explains that the monotheistic Druze religion, founded in Egypt about 1,000 years ago, expects followers to live and marry within their own communities but not as a separate nation.