Talia Bloch
By Talia Bloch
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Culture NYU Move To Offer 16 Tests Ups the Ante for Screening
In September, New York University Medical Center will become the first medical facility in the country to offer Ashkenazic Jewish couples tests for 16 inheritable genetic diseases, an expansion from the nine tests it offered until a year ago. Welcomed by some in the medical community as an advance in patient care, the move is…
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Israel News Keeping a Dying Musical Tradition Alive With Passion
What’s in a name? Sometimes a great deal. Take, for example, Ralph Selig, the son of German-Jewish émigrés. In German, the phrase “Seliges Angedenken,” means “of blessed memory,” and it is perhaps no accident, then, that Selig has become a one-man-act advocating for a tradition that threatens to die out with his parents’ generation: German-Jewish…
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News Praising the Light — Not the Creator
The melody was exactly the same. And the scene couldn’t have been much more familiar: Families sat at tables set with napkins, cups and menorahs. Some adults fiddled with matches as the rest of those gathered enthusiastically recited the first blessing. But it was not a blessing they were singing — well, not if a…
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