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A Bridge to the Sighted World

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Health & Science · Lauren Kramer

Israeli-Canadian Doc IDs African Gene That Points to Kidney Failure

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Israeli Artists Displaying Work in Toronto

July 8th, 2010 · No Comments

The Association of Israel’s Decorative Arts (AIDA) sends Israeli artists to exhibit and sell their work annually at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition at Nathan Phillips Square.
Meet Nirit Dekel and Sarit Assaf, the artists present at the 2010 show.

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Tags: Art