Mordechai Shinefield
By Mordechai Shinefield
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Culture Consortium Maps 21 New Crohn’s Genes
One of the largest collaborative research teams ever assembled has concluded a decade-long study that may unlock the secrets behind Crohn’s disease. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases IBD Genetics Consortium and collaborating centers have identified 21 new genes that play a role in the appearance of Crohn’s. Crohn’s is an…
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Israel News Comic Explores Shoah
Though the Shoah seems out of place amid the bright colors, tights and capes of comic books, graphic novels have a long history of depicting the Holocaust. Art Spiegelman started writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Maus” in 1972, and the mutant known as Wolverine was given a history in the Polish extermination camp Sobibor. Last week,…
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Israel News Marvel Reveals Golden-Age Comic Book Hero’s Identity
From The Fantastic Four’s Benjamin Jacob Grimm (aka The Thing) to the 1980s Magen Dovid-sporting mutant Kitty Pryde, Jewish superheroes have been all over the comic book medium. But have any of them kept their religion a secret identity as long as Mister E? Also known as Victor Jay, Mister E first made his appearance…
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News The Teapacks Push the Envelope
This past May, the Israeli band the Teapacks were eliminated in the semifinals of the Eurovision song competition, along with bands representing 17 other countries. Their elimination capped a months-long saga in which pop music collided with geopolitics, garnering international headlines for the six-member, ska-inflected group originally hailing from the now-embattled town of Sderot. Some…
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News Music Site Celebrates Launch
Is Erez Safar, 28, the hardest-working man in the Jewish music industry? He’s produced music as DJ Handler, released such acts as Y-Love and Juez on his label, Modular Moods, and ran the Sephardic Music Festival. And now he’s also the webmaster of Shemspeed, which he bills as the largest Jewish music site on the…
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Music What Does Gay, Jewish R&B Sound Like?
What does an openly gay, Jewish R&B singer sound like? Thanks to Ari Gold, a formerly Orthodox kid out of the Bronx, the question isn’t speculative. On his newest album, “Transport Systems,” out this week, he answers that an openly gay, Jewish R&B singer sounds much like any good R&B phenom: a sexy, honey-tinged voice…
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News D.J. Without Borders
Sam Hopkins, aka DJ Balagan (Balagan is Hebrew for tumult), is a mixer, drummer and producer. His newest album, “Funny Accent,” is a mix tape in the most classic sense. Rather than simply sample older songs for his own aggrandizement, Hopkins removes himself from the process — acting more like a museum curator than an…
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Culture Headbanger’s Thrall
Try this one on for size: In 2001, the members of the band Gevolt — six Russian Israelis, ages 23 to 31, based out of Ashdod — released their first album, “Sidur,” a collection of heavy metal songs performed in Russian. Driven by traditional European metal concerns — paganism, glorious battles and passionate love —…
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