Eric Herschthal
By Eric Herschthal
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Israel News Restaurateur: Logo a No-go
In a corner of Manhattan’s East Village there sits an unassuming little Chinese dumpling restaurant that has had a short but lively two-year existence. In addition to receiving a slew of favorable reviews, the eatery, known as Dumpling Man, has been at the center of not one but two trademark infringement cases. The first was…
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Israel News Leftist Rocker Sings His Country’s Praises
In New York to kick off a tour of the United States, Israeli rocker Aviv Geffen visited Columbia University last Tuesday, but not with guitar in hand. Geffen is on the road singing Israel’s praises, not his latest hits. The scion of a prominent Israeli family (his father is poet Yehonatan Geffen; his great-uncle, Moshe…
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Israel News D’oh, It’s a Golem
It is well established that “The Simpsons,” America’s longest-running sitcom, has deep Jewish roots. Many of the show’s writers are Jewish, as is its producer, Mike Reiss. The voices of Apu, Professor Frink and Moe are provided by Hank Azaria, a Sephardic Jew, and the story of Krusty the Clown’s estrangement from his Hasidic father…
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Israel News FDR Kin in an Unlikely Spot: A Rabbi’s Pulpit
It isn’t often that a community can say that its rabbi’s American past goes back further than the country’s first synagogue. Or that its rabbi had ancestors who landed in New Amsterdam in the 1640s. Or, for that matter, that its rabbi’s great-grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. But…
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News GOP’s Fla. Recount Diva Gives Dems Ammunition
Democrats are hoping to swing several tightly contested congressional races by seizing on controversial comments made by Rep. Katherine Harris, best known for her role during the 2000 recount in Florida. Harris, who as Florida’s secretary of state was hailed by conservatives and reviled by liberals for her efforts to certify then-Texas Governor George W….
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News Iris Ovshinsky, 79, Alternative-energy Executive
Iris Ovshinsky, co-founder of an influential alternative-energy company, drowned August 16 while swimming in a pond near her home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. She was 79. Ovshinsky was serving as vice president and director of the company that she and her husband, Stanford, founded, when her life was cut short. “We are greatly saddened by…
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News New Fanconi Genes Found
Two new genes related to Fanconi anemia were discovered in August 2005, bringing to 11 the number of genes identified as having links to the disease. The newly discovered genes, called FANCJ and FANCM, are involved in the process of DNA repair and inch scientists closer to an understanding of F.A. Researchers suspect that a…
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The Schmooze Nazi Problem Finds Jewish Solution
In 1955, Wilhelm Blaschke, a noted German mathematician, threw up his hands in the face of quandary over which he had long puzzled. He deemed the “three-web problem,” which focused on how to straighten a web’s curved lines, “hopeless.” More than half a century later, the puzzle has been solved. The twist? Blaschke was a…
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