BACKGROUND Hypertension is one of the most prevalent vascular diseases in the adult population. It is an important determinant of atherosclerosis in adolescents and young adults. There is to date no information on blood pressure in children of the Israeli Arab population. OBJECTIVES To study blood pressure in Israeli Arab children and adolescents. METHODS Blood pressure measurements were ta...

Lamentations and lament of capital Ying are models city in ancient Hebrew-and Chinese classical literary traditions respectively. A comparative study shows that there significant subject difference between lamentations . is the collective works, its compilation inheritance function as emotional expression sufferings past, present future Jewish people, reflecting their infinite belief transcende...

The article discusses the influence of Jewish worldview, traditions, especially mysticism on personality Franz Kafka and his literary works.  In prose works aphorisms written in esoteric genre, made extensive use plots contexts from various variants Kabbalah Hasidic mysticism. Kafka’s  works, we find abundant “traces” Kabbalah:motifs, themes figures, as well popular legends, interpret...

Goldberg is a first-rate historian and it is good to have this 1989 volume on Prague Jewry in English, especially in Carol Cosman's literate and fluid translation. Goldberg surveys notions of illness, death, dying, and burial among the Jews of Prague from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using communal records and ancillary sources, she provides detailed (and often extensive) quotatio...

What role does religion play (or not play) in transnational activism the context of prolonged violence? The narrow strip land known as Palestine and Israel has special significance to three world’s largest faith traditions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism. motivations 21 South African Jewish Israeli activists support Palestinian struggle offer an inductive, contextual perspective on interplay bet...

We previously reported preliminary results of association of clozapine-induced agranulocytosis (CA) with HLA-B38, DR4, DQ3 in five Ashkenazi Jewish patients and with HLA-DR2, DQ1 in four non-Jewish patients. In the present study, 31 additional patients with CA, 10 Ashkenazi Jewish, and 21 of non-Jewish ancestry, were studied. HLA alleles and haplotypes were compared among 52 patients (33 Ashken...

Religious traditions with their universal intent on human salvation or well-being have de-territorialized themselves migrated from the place of origin along trade routes in company merchants, invaders, and colonizers [...]