This paper is investigating that:" resurging evolution of economic thought, EET, is brilliantly in direction with eminence of substantive elements of economics itself". It presupposes that the substantive elements of economics embraces the following package: 1- maintaining on some epistemic doctrines, including rationality, efficiency and equilibrium.2-dynamic characteristic of economic theorie...

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Purpose: Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection is a major cause of neonatal sepsis. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and risk factors for GBS carriership among parturient women in Jerusalem. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 436 parturient Jewish women at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus. The study included patient interview and vagino-rectal s...

A cluster of hepatitis A cases in the Orthodox Jewish community in London, United Kingdom in July 2010 has triggered extensive contact tracing and vaccination. Two primary cases imported from a common source in Israel and three secondary cases have resulted in immunisation of over 900 contacts to date. Rapid response by local public health, primary care services and a dedicated community health...

________________________________________________________ Asher Bush, a graduate of Yeshiva University and RIETS, is the rav of Congregation Ahavas Yisrael in Wesley Hills, NY, and is currently the chairman of the Rabbinical Council of America’s Vaad Halacha. He has authored over fifty articles on various halakhic topics including medical issues, and his Sho’el b-Shlomo responsa address a range ...

Hepatitis A outbreaks have been reported in some Jewish Orthodox communities in New York City and New York State. The factors which lead to the transmission of the virus are known: families with a high proportion of children in the lower age groups, large numbers of children in schools which admit them at a very young age, and the close interaction between the various congregations within a reg...

The debate as to whether Jewishness is a biological trait inherent from an "authentic" "Jewish type" (jüdische Typus) ancestor or a system of beliefs has been raging for over two centuries. While the accumulated biological and anthropological evidence support the latter argument, recent genetic findings, bolstered by the direct-to-consumer genetic industry, purport to identify Jews or quantify ...