Booming economy lures Soviet Jews home, but anti-Semitism lurksBy Preston Mendenhall
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 2:11 p.m. ET April 27, 2005
MOSCOW - Watching over rambunctious children at a central Moscow Jewish school, a four-story building filled with brightly painted menorah motifs, Sofia Savinikh says it’s sometimes hard to remember why she left home in 1991.
The Achei Tmimim Day School, run by the local Lubavitcher community, educates nearly 200 students in the Jewish faith. It’s one of about a dozen schools with dedicated curricula and kosher cafeterias in Moscow — facilities unheard of during the Soviet Union, when state-sanctioned anti-Semitism barred Jews from many jobs and schools.

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Apr 27, 10:23 AM (ET)
By HENRY MEYER
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for a Mideast peace conference in Moscow this fall, and then was heading to Israel for a historic first visit there by a Kremlin leader.

The Russian president, whose government is a sponsor of the "road map" plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, said he would discuss the conference proposal with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during his three-day visit to Israel, which was to begin late Wednesday.

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Israeli scientists are pushing the boundaries of an already cutting-edge field: stem cell research. They have grown heart cells from human embryonic stem cells and have established companies promising, among other things, to produce new blood vessels, regenerate cartilage and heal spinal cord injuries.

Coming together from both academia and industry, they have joined to form a consortium aimed to further develop stem cell-based therapies. The Consortium Bereshit for Cell Therapy testifies to the importance of stem cell research in Israel.

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Suffering a stroke can be severely debilitating, frustrating, and costly. It's the leading cause of long-term disability in the US with current statistics indicating that there are over 4.5 million Americans who have survived a stroke or brain attack and are living with the after-effects. According to the National Stroke Association, only 10% of stroke survivors recover almost completely.

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