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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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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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Inquest: Amy Winehouse Died of Alcohol Poisoning
Looking Into The Death Of Amy Winehouse
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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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Homage to Nachum Gutman
Crossposted from Haaretz The connection between Nachum Gutman (1898-1980) and graduate students at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem is not arbitrary, say curators of the exhibition “What Does It Mean to Interpret a Tradition?” “Gutman was one of the first students at Boris Schatz’s old Bezalel, and his oeuvre, especially that…
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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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Muslim-Jewish Comedy Coming to NBC
With its ratings in the basement, NBC is turning to religion — two of them, actually — for its next sitcom hit. Jews and Muslims will provide the humor in the network’s small-screen adaptation of “The Infidel,” a 2010 English movie about an adopted Muslim who discovers his biological parents were Jewish. New York Magazine’s…
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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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McDonald’s Comes to Masada
Would you like fries with that mass suicide? Visitors to Masada can now ponder Jewish martyrdom while eating fast food, thanks to the recent opening of a McDonald’s at the historical site. The latest issue of Time Out Tel Aviv reports that the fast-food chain “just opened a branch inside the visitors center of the…
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The Lions of Zion, Chapter 14
What would have happened had there been a Jewish team in the Major Leagues? In an original novel serialized on The Arty Semite, Ross Ufberg imagines the trials and triumphs of The Lions of Zion, an all-Jewish team competing in the National League in 1933. Read the first 13 chapters here. The Fall of Dixie…
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Books Great Women, Cut Short
Trina Robbins is the author of the just-released “Lily Renee, Escape Artist,” the Jewish superhero comic book “GoGirl!” and many other books. Her posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: Today…
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