Jasmine Marcus
By Jasmine Marcus
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Culture Web Site Gives Golf Fans the Chance To Caddy for Charity
Last March, after placing a successful bid on the Web site caddyforacure.com, golf lover Jon Huzarsky, a senior vice president of a Manhattan investment bank, was able to spend a day caddying for professional golfer Steve Stricker at the World Golf Championships. The caddying opportunity, which Huzarsky heard about from a friend, was “by far,…
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Culture Doctors: Diet Can Help With FD
Researchers have discovered that they can help alleviate some of the symptoms of familial dysautonomia through diet. FD patients are deficient in the protein IKAP, which affects genes that make monoamine oxidase (MAO), an enzyme that destroys tyramine. A diet high in tyramine can cause the autonomic crises that lead to such symptoms as vomiting,…
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Culture NYU Treatment Center Gets Face Lift
The 38-year-old Dysautonomia Treatment and Evaluation Center at the New York University Medical Center has, in a few months’ time, undergone a vast expansion. Between November 2007 and this past February, the space the center occupies doubled, the center’s staff more than doubled and the equipment used was “really enhanced,” according to center director Felicia…
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Culture As Arabic Makes Gains on Campus, Jewish Students Sign Up
After befriending a Palestinian from Ramallah in high school, Tahl Mayer — whose parents are Israeli — decided that he wanted to study Arabic in college. “It’s very important to learn languages,” he said, “because they help bridge the gap between cultures.” Mayer is hardly alone: An increasing number of Jewish students are studying Arabic…
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Culture Farm School Brings Students Back to Their Roots
The Jewish Farm School is a new organization that hopes to bring Jews back to their agricultural roots by giving them a taste of what it means to grow their own food and reconnect with the soil. “We’re missing the people’s deep connection to the land and not engaging in the process of creating the…
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Culture Picturing Evil
After stumbling across a newspaper article about the Holocaust archives at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, Richard Ehrlich, a California-based surgeon-turned-photographer, decided that he wanted to document them. This quixotic impulse proved as difficult as one might imagine: At the time, the archives were closed to the public. But Ehrlich persisted. After…
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