Shoshana Olidort
By Shoshana Olidort
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News Parties Trade Fire Over Anti-war Activist
In an effort to discredit Democrats, conservatives and Republican Jewish leaders jumped on reports — later denied — that the nation’s most prominent anti-war activist had blamed Israel for America’s war in Iraq. The controversy surrounded remarks allegedly made by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of fallen Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year…
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Israel News Spy Blames Mother-In-Law Problem On Israeli Officials
Last week, the pro-settler Israeli-based Arutz 7 News Service reported that Jerusalem was seeking to secure a furlough for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard so that he could visit his dying mother-in-law. There was just one problem: Pollard’s mother-in-law had died July 18, two weeks earlier. Pollard, now serving a life sentence in a federal prison…
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Culture Drug May Prolong Lives of Tay-Sachs Babies
For the first time ever, infants with Tay-Sachs disease may have a fighting chance at prolonging their lives. In July, the pharmaceutical company Actelion approved a contract for clinical trials of the drug Zavesca for treatment of infants with Tay-Sachs disease. The proposal marks the first clinical trial ever to involve infants suffering from the…
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Culture Mixed-heritage Family Deals With Genetic Tragedy
When Rachaeli Fier uttered her first word — abba, or father — her parents had no idea it would be her last. Rachaeli was born a perfect baby girl, a “designer baby,” as the hospital’s delivery staff called her. Now, Eric and Nicole Fier watch helplessly as Rachaeli spirals downward in rapid, steady regression. Two-and-a-half-year-old…
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Culture NEWS AND ADVANCES IN BRIEF
When clinical trials began two years ago for treatment of Late Onset Tay-Sachs with the drug Zavesca, the trial was scheduled to last one year, with a possible 12-month extension. But because LOTS is such a rare disease, with only 200 known cases nationwide, researchers at New York University’s School of Medicine and the University…
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News Poland Gives Up Campaign To Extradite Israeli Citizen
Polish authorities appear to have given up their efforts to extradite an Israeli citizen accused of committing crimes “against the Polish nation.” Israel’s ambassador to Poland, David Peleg, told the Forward that the Polish Ministry of Justice has agreed to drop its efforts to extradite Solomon Morel, a Polish Jew living in Israel, who allegedly…
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Israel News Funny, He Doesn’t Look Amish
Team Madison lost the scavenger hunt on the July 5 episode of the NBC reality show “I Want To Be a Hilton” — but not before encountering what they mistakenly thought to be an Amish man in a mobile home. “We walked up to these two ‘Amish men’ and asked if they could help us…
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News Judge To Rule on Commandments Display Given by Jewish Community
Like many judges following the Supreme Court’s split decision on displays of Ten Commandments monuments in Texas and Kentucky, Robert Freedberg is struggling to determine whether the display in his Pennsylvania courtroom passes constitutional muster. Yet, at least one fact stands out about the large plaque of the Ten Commandments that hangs directly behind the…
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