(JTA) — There are plenty of paradigms in the history of humor for how Jews and non-Jews get along, or don’t: as persecutors and victims, as saviors and saved, as allies against a common oppressor. All these are fraught with the tensions between the powerful and the disempowered, which makes sense: Fear drives humor. But…
Actress Valerie Harper’s brain cancer is nearing remission, her physician said in an excerpt of a documentary that was shown on NBC’s “Today” show. “I’d say that we’re getting pretty close to remission,” neuro-oncologist Dr. Jeremy Rudnick said in a documentary that will air next month on the U.S. network. “It defies the odds,” he…
Valerie Harper, known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” —remember those headscarves? — revealed yesterday that she had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. On January 15, her doctors told her that she had as little as three months left to live. In a tear-jerker interview with People Magazine,…
Actress Valerie Harper best known as wise-cracking neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern on television’s “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, People magazine reported on Wednesday. Doctors told Harper, 73, on Jan. 15 that she had as little as three months left to live after a battery of tests revealed she has…
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