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Julia Métraux, now 24, first started having severe fatigue and chronic pain about six years ago — symptoms that led to her eventual diagnosis with vasculitis, which involves inflammation of the blood vessels, in January 2018. She was hospitalized for a week and then bedridden for six months. Her medical needs made it necessary for…
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Opinion This Passover, I’m contemplating the plague of ageism
I used to think old people were either cute or sad. The cute ones were Kirk Douglas or Ruth Bader Ginsburg doing push-ups, and gray-haired couples animatedly talking to each other or walking hand in hand in the park. The sad ones were stooped, infirm, inept, crotchety, disheveled, occasionally incoherent, and mostly invisible. I used…
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Opinion A Very Klingon Passover — Starting With The 4 Questions
Michael Burstein kindly provided the Four Questions in Klingon to those of his readers in the Federation of Planets celebrating Pesach (Passover). The Four Questions In Klingon qatlh pImlaw’ ramvam rammey latlh je? qaStaHvIS Hoch rammey “Hametz” “Matza” je DISop, ‘ach qaStaHvIS ramvam’e’, “Matza” neH wISop. qaStaHvIS Hoch rammey, Hoch tI wISop, ‘ach qaStaHvIS ramvam’e’,…
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Opinion Why I Hate Passover And Why You Should, Too, If You’re Doing It Right
I hate Passover. And I’m not alone. It’s a Holy Day as smug and stomach-hurting as Yom Kippur, but one that lasts as long as the eight oily days of Hanukkah. It’s as fraught with familial tension as a Thanksgiving turkey with one blue wing and one red wing, but, like the playoffs, you have…
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Breaking News Americans for Peace Now Calls Illegal Israeli Settlements ‘Plague’
Americans for Peace Now called the expansion of Israeli settlements a “plague” in a Facebook post. On March 30, the group posted a photo to its Facebook page showing the expansion of the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit between 1997 and 2014. Evoking the upcoming Passover holiday, the photo featured a caption calling the…
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The Schmooze With Passover Plague Videos Like These, Who Needs the Maccabeats?
Holiday-themed parody video are usually lame, and cringe-inducing. Exhibit A: This Passoverized version of “Uptown Funk.” But sometimes, you get that one gem that makes it all worth it. Nina Paley has given us such a golden unicorn with her animation of each of the ten plagues (props to our good friends at Heeb for…
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