Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Why Are Some People Born Without Fingerprints?
With all the heightened security and anti-terrorism measures in place these days, we are all pretty sick of bureaucratic problems at border crossings. But people with “Immigration Delay Disease,” however, face a unique challenge when traveling from one country to another. Those with “Immigration Delay Disease” (its scientific name is adermatoglyphia) have no fingerprints. In…
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The Schmooze iTunes Classifies Jewish Music as Christian
It looks like iTunes must have been snoozing during Comparative Religions 101. The Jerusalem Post found that the world’s largest online music and video vendor doesn’t seem to know the difference between Jewish and Christian music. Or maybe it just doesn’t care. The newspaper reported that it found most popular Jewish singers’ songs and albums…
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Life Interfaith Caravan Is Full of Female Rabbis
As the first woman to be ordained a Conservative rabbi, Amy Eilberg occupies a major place in the annals of Jewish women’s history. She has recently been squeezing her self into a very small space in the hopes of making another kind of history. Since September 11, she and seven other interfaith clergy have been…
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The Schmooze Amy Winehouse’s Last Song
This week, in honor of what would have been Amy Winehouse’s 28th birthday, her duet with the legendary crooner Tony Bennett was released. The two recorded the jazz standard “Body and Soul” last March, just four months before Winehouse’s untimely death, to which no definitive cause has been attributed. In a video about the recording…
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The Schmooze Quadriplegic Israeli Tennis Player Eyes Paralympics
Serious tennis fans have likely heard of Israeli players like Shahar Peer and Andy Ram, but it’s safe to bet that most are not familiar with Noam Gershony, despite the fact that he is higher ranked than the others. Gershony, a quadriplegic, plays wheelchair tennis. He is ranked third in the world in wheelchair quad…
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The Schmooze One Man’s Quest for Julius Streicher’s Jewish Books
Photo by Claus Felix Meyer Before and during World War II, between 30,000 and 40,000 Jewish books ended up in the hands of Julius Streicher, the infamous Nazi and editor of the anti-Semitic propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer. Today, German-Jewish community leader and former journalist Leibl Rosenberg is working to return 10,000 of them to their…
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The Schmooze Israel Will Re-enact Space-Age Experiment
Israel will be trying to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records next week. Of course, Israel is often seen as a place of extremes, but this attempt at record-breaking has nothing to do with the usual political headlines or social disagreements. As a nice distraction to what many fear will be a…
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The Schmooze Meet Josh Bernstein, the Next Teen Pop Idol
Josh Bernstein has got an amazing set of pipes, and he is using them to his advantage in the Kidz Star USA Talent Search, under way right now. The 14-year-old student at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md., is one of four finalists in the competition sponsored by KidzBop.com. This morning, Bernstein…
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