admin | August 28, 2021
A UK-based American pharmaceutical firm has had positive results so far in the late-stage trials for its treatment of Tay-Sachs disease, in what could be a major breakthrough for a condition disproportionately affecting Ashkenazi Jews. So far, the drug, which is taken orally dissolved in water, was tolerated by the child and adult patients, and no serious drug-related side effects were observed. cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); Tay-Sachs is a rare inherited condition that impacts an estimated one out of every 200,000-320,000 live births.
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admin | August 28, 2021
With everything going on in the world this summer, from COVID-19 to climate crises, the idea of starting fresh with a new year in September is exceptionally appealing.
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admin | August 28, 2021
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the leading Ashkenazi non-hassidic ultra-Orthodox rabbi, has told school principals in the sector that if school teachers are not vaccinated against COVID-19, they should not teach. Kanievskys comments were made amid an increasing rate of coronavirus infection in the haredi community resulting largely from the reopening of ultra-Orthodox educational institutions at the start of the Jewish month of Elul on August 8.
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admin | August 28, 2021
Beth A. Lee, a food blogger who digs deep into family recipes (her own and others), has organized some of them into The Essential Jewish Baking Cookbook, an easygoing but detailed book of sweets and savories for holidays and every day
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admin | August 28, 2021
MK Miri Regev has been making waves in recent days after calling on her Likud party to jettison its white DNA and elect a Mizrahi politician preferably herself as its next party leader. I think the Mizrahim the Likudniks have long chosen white people to lead them
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admin | August 28, 2021
Sun, Aug 29, 2021 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) Tickets ($18) here.
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admin | August 18, 2021
Former Transport Minister Miri Regev called for a Mizrahi revolution in the Likud party on Thursday, complaining that the right-wing party has for too long been dominated by white Ashkenazi men at the expense of Middle Eastern and North African Jews. In an interview published in Yedioth Ahronoth, the senior Likud lawmaker stated that the fact that members of the Mizrahi community were not adequately represented in national leadership and that there had never been a Mizrahi Prime Minister showed that something is wrong here and only the Likud could change it
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admin | August 18, 2021
The Israeli Ministry of Defenses Directorate of Defense Research and Development's (dubbed MAFAT) joint endeavor with venture capital firm Awz Ventures is up and running.
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admin | August 18, 2021
It started with a tweet. Kate Clanchy, author of Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me posted on her Twitter account that a reviewer on Goodreads had made up a racist quote and said it was in my book. She urged her almost 40,000 followers to flag the review that claimed she had bigoted views on race, class and body image, and had used terms such as chocolate skin and Jewish nose.
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admin | August 18, 2021
New York Jewish Week via JTA Writer Luc Sante calls them the ghosts of Manhattan. Those are the souls of the poor and marginal people, now dead, whose presence can be felt like a shade in the history of now affluent US neighborhoods, where they push invisibly behind it to erect their memorials in the collective unconscious.
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