admin | November 5, 2020
Our communitys muchanticipated annual Bank of America Festival of Arts, Books, and Culture of the Katz JCC begins in just a few days. Dont be shut outorder your tickets now (buy tickets at katzjcc.org/abcfest or call 424- 4444, ext. 1114 or ext.
admin | November 5, 2020
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) As Election Day has arrived during perhaps the most charged campaign in recent history, many eyes have been on Pennsylvania, a swing state that both the Biden and Trump camps see as a must-win. While commentators and security experts have warned about the possibility of politically motivated violence on Election Day or in its aftermath, Pennsylvanias political diversity has made it seem like a fertile ground for such tensions. But at around noon on Election Day in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of West Oak Lane, the biggest problem faced by three local rabbis who had signed up as election volunteers was how close they could stand to the door of a polling place
admin | October 25, 2020
The American College of Medical Genetics currently recognizes a wide range of germline variants in the gene TP53 as pathogenic or likely pathogenic and causing the inherited disorder, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome.1 Cancers strongly associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome include common and rare malignancies such as breast cancer, adrenocortical carcinoma, and osteosarcoma, and are normally diagnosed in patients at much younger ages than the average age of diagnosis for the general population. In July 2020, a team of multidisciplinary researchers led by clinician-scientists at the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, added to the understanding of pathogenic TP53 variants with the publication of study in which they identified a rare, novel variant implicated in the development of Li-Fraumeni syndrome predominantly in families of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.2 Nonpathogenic p53 protein is composed of 4 major protein domains: transactivation, proline-rich, DNA-binding, and tetramerization, and is a transcription factor that activates transcription of genes encoding DNA repair machinery in healthy cells.1 Because p53 functions as a transcriptional regulator, pathogenic mutations in TP53 are most commonly observed in sequences encoding the DNA binding domain, causing the mutant p53 protein to lose its normal capacity to bind to target promoter sequences for transcriptional activation.1 Unlike more common pathogenic mutations in the DNA binding domain, the novel variant, c, 1000G> C;p.
admin | October 25, 2020
By Rachel Myerson, The Nosser Every Jewish community has its answer to the ultimate Jewish sausage. From the Portuguese Alheira de Mirandela to Ashkenazi kishke to New Yorks kosher hot dog, the origins of the following sausages are as diverse as their flavors
admin | October 25, 2020
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and despite the COVID-19 pandemic, its still important for women to maintain their annual OB-GYN appointments and mammograms.
admin | October 25, 2020
The protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that have erupted in Israel in recent months highlight the multiple impasses defining the countrys society and government. Chief among these are corruption, the electoral stalemate and the coronavirus pandemic, which have all exacerbated Israels economic crisis. Yet, even as Israelis have staged unprecedented anti-Netanyahu demonstrations, polls have simultaneously shown a rise in the popularity of the far-right Yamina alliance, led by Naftali Bennett, at the expense of Likud
admin | October 20, 2020
Gal Gadot, an Israeli of Ashkenazi (European) heritage, and a former Miss Universe contestant, is slated to produce and star in another movie about Cleopatra (VII), promising to capture the myth rather than the reality of Cleopatra. Tall, pale, and athletic, one doubts that much of the movie will be spent on Cleopatras linguistic or medical accomplishments just saying. My relationship to the Cleopatra stories comes from teaching a subject on Black Athena to Afrocentric students in California (See Black Athena and the Incredible Whiteness of Being)
admin | October 20, 2020
Its hard to understand what Israel needs right now what can help move the wheels of the Israeli reality in the right direction and what the right direction is. Theres nothing harder than helping another person, the Hungarian author Sandor Marai wrote in his 1935 book Divorce in Buda. You see that a person you like and who is important to you running amok to his ruin, living against his own good already can hardly withstand it falling apart .
admin | October 18, 2020
This post originally appeared in Alma.
admin | October 18, 2020
Call it shtreetwear. Call it shtetlcore. The era of extremely Ashkenazi athleisure is here, and its forcing Jews to contend with a pressing question: What are shtetl vibes, and should you be able to sell them?
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