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Culture Genetic Diseases Affecting Ashkenazi Jews
Here is a list of diseases that are often screened for in Jewish couples who are planning to have children because of an elevated risk of carrying a recessive mutation. Researchers have identified many more genetic diseases affecting those of Ashkenazi heritage than those of Sephardic and Mizrahi descent. Among Sephardic Jews more commonality exists…
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Opinion Naomi Zeveloff Talks About Transgender Jews
Forward editor Naomi Zeveloff talks about the groundbreaking series on transgender Jews in an interview with Sirius satellite radio. Click to listen.
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Fast Forward Was Chandra Levy Witness a Professional Snitch?
Newly released court documents raise startling new questions about the credibility of the star witness in the murder trial of a man convicted of killing Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy in 2001. Hundreds of pages of documents released this week reveal that a cellmate of Ingmar Guandique who testified that he confessed to the sensational…
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Fast Forward Geek Is Gone! Nate Silver To Dump New York Times for ESPN
Nate SIlver is taking his stats and going to ESPN. The geeky numbers guy who turned the electoral vote counting into a national obsession with his FIveThirtyEight blog is leaving the New York Times for the sports network, the Times reported. He will be on staff at a new late night show run by Keith…
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The Schmooze No eBay Bids for $3M Schindler’s List Yet
No one has made a bid yet for an original copy of Oskar Schindler’s famed list. The iconic list of Jews to be saved from the Nazis went up up for auction on eBay Friday night and an amazing 250,000 users had viewed the listing as of 10 p.m. Sunday. But there were no bidders…
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The Schmooze Will Woody Allen Return to Standup?
Woody Allen is mulling a return to standup comedy. Allen’s latest movie, “Blue Jasmine,” comes out next week (stay tuned for my review), and for the occasion Allen did an interview with The New York Times’s Dave Itzikoff, in which he raised the possibility of making a return to the stage. Several of the actors…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Meet Jonathan Pollard in Prison
Leaders of American Judaism’s two largest religious streams visited Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard in prison July 11 to underline their demand that he be freed after serving 28 years of a life sentence. Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president of the Conservative rabbinical organization the Rabbinical Assembly, and Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the…
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Fast Forward Ouch! Snake Bites Israeli Man on Penis
A man in northern Israel was reportedly bitten on the penis by a snake while sitting on the toilet Friday night. The unidentified man, who was visiting his parents in the Galilee town of Nofit, was rushed to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa after he reported feeling a burning sensation and seeing a snake…
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