Mordechai Shinefield
By Mordechai Shinefield
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Culture A Cornerless World
a man in a room with a tallis on By Aaron E. Bulman Flannel Press, 125 pages, $10. * * *| The talmudist, the Yiddishist and the yeshiva boy — three characters that could easily be written as relics of a past age. But when they appear in Aaron E. Bulman’s poetry collection, “a man…
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Israel News Madonna Ropes New Acolyte in Her Red Lasso
Though Britney Spears recently announced that she’s through with Kabbalah, Madonna seems to have found a new protégé to take Spears’s place. Lindsay Lohan said last week that she was “looking into” the mystical cult, and a source told In Touch, a celebrity weekly, that Madonna and Lohan have big plans. In taking Lohan under…
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Culture Colleges Connect Online
A new Web site is connecting Jewish students on college campuses across the country. Campus J, launched this spring at www.campusj.com, offers a forum for students to report on Jewish activities at their universities, and to exchange ideas and information. Campus J founder Steven I. Weiss — a frequent contributor to the Forward — envisions…
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Israel News A Reunion of Biblical Proportions
Think you are a direct descendant of King David? Then make sure you have an invitation to his family reunion. The Eshet Chayil Foundation is planning the first Eternal House of David Family Reunion, to be held in 2007. It’s a three-day event in Jerusalem for people who believe they are descendants of King David….
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Culture Jewish Music Goes Grunge
Recently, before a packed audience in New York, a musician named Yaniv Tsaidi readjusted the clip holding down his yarmulke, stepped toward his microphone and began to scream. But the 29-year-old singer wasn’t just screaming. He was screaming his prayers. Tsaidi is the lead singer of Heedoosh, a new grunge-pop Jewish band that played to…
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News White. Gay. Jewish. Rapper?
Andrew Singer is the nicest gay, Jewish, white rapper alive. This isn’t hyperbole. He also happens to be the only gay, Jewish, white rapper alive. Singer, 25, now lives in Manhattan’s East Village, but his voyage began in Kensington, N.H., about an hour north of Boston. Singer, who attended Hebrew school in Portsmouth, N.H., sees…
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Culture Gene Found for Dystonia-related Disorder
Scientists have unlocked the gene responsible for a rare and debilitating genetic disorder. Rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism, or RDP, is a rare genetic disorder whose sufferers share symptoms with both dystonia and Parkinson’s disease. In an article published in the July 21 issue of the neuroscience journal Neuron, a research team detailed its discovery that six unique…
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Culture Scientists Seek New Crohn’s Treatments
Researchers are exploring two possible new treatments — one in trials, the other still speculative — for Crohn’s disease, a genetically linked digestive-tract disorder suffered by an estimated 500,000 Americans, mostly Jews of Ashkenazic descent. Discovered by Dr. Burrill Crohn in 1932, Crohn’s, which is similar to ulcerative colitis and inflammatory bowel disease, is a…
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