Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Diabetic Israeli Children Test Artificial Pancreas
An artificial pancreas was taken for a test drive recently in Israel. This new technology, if it proves successful, could be a huge breakthrough in diabetes care and control. “A Sweet Life,” a website for healthy living with diabetes, reported that 18 children in Israel were gathered at Kibbutz Ma’aleh Hahamisha to participate in the…
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The Schmooze Charity Team Runs NYC Marathon for Holocaust Survivors
Organizers of this year’s ING New York City Marathon on November 6 are hoping that runners will raise $1 million per mile. That’s a total of $26,200,000 for charity. Among the official charity teams this year will be 70 runners raising money for The Blue Card, a non-profit organization that supports the everyday financial needs…
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Books Who Will Shelter Shalom Auslander?
Anyone who knows Shalom Auslander’s work knows he is haunted by the past — both his own personal past and the collective Jewish one. But for the sake of potential new readers, he is making this fact abundantly clear in the trailers he has made for his soon-to-be-released novel, “Hope: A Tragedy.” In the trailers,…
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The Schmooze Winehouse Death Report Sent to Wrong Address
Oops. It was in the mail, but it didn’t reach its intended recipient. Somehow, a report on the cause of death of late singer Amy Winehouse ended up in the wrong hands. A file meant for Winehouse’s family believed to contain material outlining how Winehouse died last July 23 was brought in to a police…
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The Schmooze App Follows Emma Lazarus Around New York
Most people encounter Emma Lazarus only inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Her sonnet, “The New Colossus,” written in 1883, has become inextricably identified in the public mind with the wave of immigration to the United States from the 1880s until 1924. However, a new free mobile tour produced by the Museum of…
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The Schmooze Fashion Week Comes to Israel
It won’t be quite like Fashion Week in New York, Paris or Milan, but it will be Holon’s biggest fashion week ever. This month, the Mediatheque Cultural Center in Holon, just south of Tel Aviv, will host a fashion-focused event October 24-27 that will include film screenings, an international symposium, master classes taught by international…
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The Schmooze Shalit Shirt Inspires Fashion Trend
Many questioned Hamas’s fashion sense when they saw the civilian outfit that Gilad Shalit was dressed in for his transfer to Israel during last week’s prisoner swap. They thought it was far from flattering to his thin, malnourished frame and gaunt face. It turns out, however, that Gazans actually thought the collared, checkered shirt the…
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Life Women Disappearing from Jerusalem Ads
As I recently reported, Jerusalem City Councilmember Rachel Azaria lost her job and membership in the governing coalition for having gone to the High Court of Justice to oppose gender segregation in that city and to protect the equal rights of women. An online petition has begun circulating to pressure Mayor Nir Barkat into giving…
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