Doni Bloomfield
By Doni Bloomfield
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Opinion Who Tests the Genetic Tests?
Testing the Testers: The Coriell Institute and Genetic Testing from Doni Bloomfield on Vimeo. What happens when you can’t trust a test meant to stave off a fatal disease? When, even if the test is 99% percent accurate, you don’t believe what it reports? That’s a question that keeps geneticists like Dorit Berlin up at…
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Opinion Bob Filner’s Too Bad for Hooters
Hooters is drawing a line in the sand — and his name is San Diego Mayor Bob Filner. The jiggle joint restaurant chain, not normally known for its political correctness, has announced it will no longer serve the embattled Jewish pol, according to signs posted outside locations across the city. Filner, recently slammed with a…
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Culture Coriell Institute Gives Patients a Genetic Crystal Ball — With Consequences
An email popped up in Hershel Richman’s inbox. “Your new personalized risk report is now available through the CPMC web portal!” the email cheerfully informed him. Its contents were tactfully vague: some talk of “genetic counselors” and a medicine collaborative. But this wasn’t some credit report spam, or a Nigerian phishing scam. No, Richman, a…
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Fast Forward Horace Mann Pays More Than $1 Million to Victims of Sexual Abuse Scandal
Horace Mann paid out over $1 million to victims in the wake of the elite private school’s sexual abuse scandal last year, according to court filings, The New York Times reports. The legal papers were filed at the New York Supreme Court as the pricey Riverdale private school sues its insurers to recover some of…
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The Schmooze My Wife the Suicide Bomber
Why would a brilliant woman, blessed with familial, material and career success, without any religious animus against Jews or direct experience of oppression, decide to blow herself up and murder a room full of Israeli children? This question seems to be at the heart of “The Attack,” a beautifully built film by Lebanese director Ziad…
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Fast Forward MIT Report Defends College But Raises Uneasy Questions on Aaron Swartz Case
An internal report from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology claims it did nothing wrong in the case of Aaron Swartz, the co-founder of Reddit and internet activist who committed suicide this January — but criticized administrators for displaying a disappointing failure of “leadership.” The review, led by an MIT alumnus, an MIT professor, and an…
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The Schmooze The Sublime and Ridiculous at Maccabiah 2013
The Maccabiah Games have always been a mix of the sublime and the ridiculous, from moving displays of international Jewish unity to typical Israeli foibles — a tennis match this week was interrupted by a nearby military exercise. This year’s games are no exception: from the inspiring side of the ledger, a Cuban delegation has…
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Opinion Why Ryan Braun Sparked Anti-Semitic Twitter Flood
The recent suspension of Ryan Braun, the star Milwaukee Brewers outfielder known affectionately as “the Hebrew Hammer,” has brought in its wake a host of anti-Semitic tweets directed at Braun — and pretty much everyone else of Jewish heritage. The Huffington Post reported on the Tweets in the best way they could, by compiling a…
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