Rita Rubin
By Rita Rubin
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News Kosher Chicken, E Coli and the Horace Mann Kid
It’s a new, if still debatable, mystery of modern science: Why would kosher chickens harbor much higher levels of potentially dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria than nonkosher chickens? The authors of a recent study that found this are just as stumped as anyone. “Nobody expected it would be any higher than conventional chicken,” said lead author Jack…
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News Tapping Into Growing Lure of Hidden Jewish Heritage Online
Catherine Afarian calls herself a “love child of the ‘70s.” Her mother discovered that she was pregnant after she had broken off a relationship of less than a year. Afarian has never met her biological father, but her mother always said he came from a big Italian family, and Afarian got a kick out of…
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Israel News ‘Jews a Race’ Genetic Theory Comes Under Fierce Attack by DNA Expert
Scientists usually don’t call each other “liars” and “frauds.” But that’s how Johns Hopkins University post-doctoral researcher Eran Elhaik describes a group of widely respected geneticists, including Harry Ostrer, professor of pathology and genetics at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine and author of the 2012 book “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish…
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