By Lauren Kramer
The Canadian Friends of Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind held their first annual Evening of Miracles in Toronto last month and Guy Simchi, a 39-year-old social worker from Ganei Tikva in Israel, was there as a speaker.
Simchi went blind from diabetes seven years ago, and says it was a cheerful [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

An SOS from the womb? From a land that is familiar with the notion of miracles: Israeli doctors are calling the emergency C-section birth of a new baby girl last week nothing short of a miracle. While undergoing a routine sonogram before her pre-planned C-section, Hindi Gross the mom-to-be received some very unsettling [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Part of a growing movement of personalized medicine, Israel’s Prof. Karl Skorecki from the Rambam Medical Center revealed yesterday in Toronto at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (University of Toronto) what’s being called a “momentous new finding” in the race to find the gene that leads to kidney failure in people with African [...]

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