the essence of moral teachings of the old testament lies in human`s resemblance to god established in the shadow of obeying sharia in this world`s life. in the torah, therefore, morality and shari`at are inseparable from each other and in this way, provide an educational plan for holy life. sanctity is of both negative and positive sides, the former requires virtue and avoiding all sinful actio...

during the occupation of palestinian territories by jewish settlers, palestinian civilians became the main victims of the conflicts and the targets of deportation from their home territory. collective and individual deportations and transfer by the occupying power of its own nationals into the territory it had occupied have frequently been carried out in the palestinian territories by israel as...

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...

The first Jewish medical graduates at the University of Padua qualified in the fifteenth century. Indeed, Padua was the only medical school in Europe for most of the medieval period where Jewish students could study freely. Though Jewish students came to Padua from many parts of Europe the main geographical sources of its Jewish students were the Venetian lands. However, the virtual Padua monop...