A middle-brain region tied to the control of emotions likely prompts females to kill their young, a new study in mice shows. With the region also present in humans, the study authors say the findings could play a similar role in better understanding infanticide by women.
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(Courtesy of YU) A ground-breaking exhibit of extraordinary items, some never before displayed in public, including spectacular manuscripts in Maimonides’s own hand, make up “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,” a new Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) exhibit, running May 9 to Dec. 31. Artifacts with a personal connection to this great Jewish luminary include a Mishneh Torah (code of law that revolutionized the study and practice of Judaism) signed and personally approved by Maimonides; a fragment from the Cairo Genizah with Maimonides’s signature and other fragments in his hand; and a volume of his commentary on the Mishnah, containing notes written by Maimonides and a well-known sketch of the Temple menorah, which may have been drawn by the sage and has in recent decades become the model for menorahs used in public Chanukah celebrations across the world. “This exhibit reflects Maimonides’s influence as well as his core values which also form the worldview an
A ground-breaking exhibit of items, some never before displayed in public, including manuscripts in Maimonides’s own hand, make up “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries.”