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A photo of Oliver Sacks featured in the Ric Burns documentary, 'Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.' (Courtesy)
September 23, 2020, 4:53 am
With months to live, neurologist Oliver Sacks gave a master class on how to die
Documentarian Ric Burns captures celebrated Jewish MD’s final days in a meditation on Sacks’s Orthodox youth, tumultuous career and acceptance of mortality. Film debuts Wednesday
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Studies into the genetics of 'super-ager' Ashkenazi Jews could mean drugs that could help the general population live up to 35 years longer. (iStock)
September 18, 2020, 11:06 pm
Only as old as your genes: Ashkenazi ‘super-agers’ could hold key to long life
‘Aging as we know it shouldn’t happen,’ says Israeli researcher Nir Barzilai, whose new book studies 750 centenarians, finding that drugs may delay the onset of major diseases
By Rich Tenorio
Parents of Graham Stokes (seated, left and center) with their children, children-in-law, and grandchildren at their Adirondack estate in 1907. Graham is standing, hands crossed on counter; Rose Pastor Stokes is on floor, second from right. (Stokes Records, vol. 3, by Anson Phelps Stokes)
August 17, 2020, 4:18 am
Tale of a ‘rebel Cinderella’: How a firebrand Jewish immigrant shocked the world
New book chronicles the life of Rose Pastor Stokes, a factory worker who became a wealthy 20th-century American activist, brushing elbows with intellectual elite
By Rich Tenorio
People wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, queue to walk through disinfecting spray booths aimed to combat the spread of COVID-19, before doing shopping at Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
August 7, 2020, 10:53 pm
As South Africa’s virus cases surge, MDs apply tough lessons from HIV epidemic
Doctors Barry Schoub and Lucille Blumberg are among medical leaders confident that a COVID vaccine won’t be hindered by ‘political’ issues, as the yet undiscovered AIDS vaccine is
By Rich Tenorio
Rabbi Vered Harris of Oklahoma City's Temple B’nai Israel, right, socially distances with synagogue executive director Rick Gratch, center, and music director Linda Matorin Sweenie, May 2020. (Courtesy)
June 26, 2020, 12:46 am
Doc who coined term ‘flatten the curve’ opines on when US synagogues should open
Dr. Howard Markel developed America’s pandemic response policy following the SARS outbreak. Now he believes states are loosening measures too fast as virus continues to circulate
By Rich Tenorio
Distinguished professor of Genetics, Dr. Jay A. Tischfield, Rutgers-New Brunswick. (Courtesy Rutgers)
June 18, 2020, 1:41 am
First COVID-19 saliva test in US can be taken at home via tele-medicine
Jay Tischfield, head of the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository, says his lab is ramping up capacity to analyze 50,000 spit samples a day
By Rich Tenorio
Howard University students hug in front of the statue of Confederate Army of Northern Virginia Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, Friday, August 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
June 13, 2020, 9:40 am
Comparing how Germany and US confront evil racial past, author finds US wanting
As America is roiled by protests following the death of George Floyd, Susan Neiman’s ‘Learning from the Germans’ outlines a roadmap that can lead to lasting reconciliation
By Rich Tenorio
Jonathan Gootenberg, left, and Omar Abudayyeh, right, at their lab on October 31, 2019. The pair met during their undergraduate studies at MIT and have been working together closely for the last five years. (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT/ Photo by Caitlin Cunningham Photography)
May 29, 2020, 11:29 pm
A Jewish and a Palestinian scientist team up for MIT at-home coronavirus test
Jonathan Gootenberg and Omar Abudayyeh are now the only researchers allowed inside the McGovern Institute, working relentlessly on an efficient, inexpensive test kit for COVID-19
By Rich Tenorio
An anti-lockdown protester compares New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to Adolf Hitler at a demonstration in front of the governor's residence in the state capital of Albany, New York, May 1, 2020. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 22, 2020, 3:57 am
Virus responses in Israel, US may permanently erode democracies, experts warn
Scholars push for increased scrutiny as governments enforce quarantines and track phones, taking on unprecedented powers that may be here to stay
By Rich Tenorio
Alon Shaya delivering hummus and pita to medical professionals as part of the @noladocproject. (Saba/ Facebook)
May 10, 2020, 12:55 am
Israeli celeb chef in New Orleans turns shuttered restaurants into soup kitchens
Unable to serve customers, Alon Shaya has transformed his two popular restaurants — Saba and Safta — into hubs giving free meals to health and furloughed food industry workers
By Rich Tenorio
A cartoon by Rube Goldberg, 'Inventions,' circa 1938-1941. (Courtesy Contemporary Jewish Museum)
May 8, 2020, 4:32 pm
Contest launches for crazy Rube Goldberg machine to clean hands from COVID-19
Special competition for wildest automated system invites families to focus on soap and bubbles, providing a welcome diversion and positive social message during isolation
By Rich Tenorio
The author of the book, Max Brooks attends the premiere of 'World War Z' in Times Square on Monday, June 17, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
May 8, 2020, 4:16 am
‘World War Z’ author/West Point teacher: Disasters are averted in pre-production
Preparedness is no joke to comedy legend Mel Brooks’ son Max, a writer and US military advisor, who lauds Israel’s COVID response and says global pragmatism can beat crisis
By Rich Tenorio
Noam Shuster-Eliassi with corona couture. (Courtesy/ Instagram)
May 6, 2020, 11:10 pm
LISTEN: Israeli comic with COVID-19 does sick comedy for captive hotel audience
Harvard fellowship cut short, one-woman show postponed, and stricken with virus, Noam Shuster-Eliassi finds plenty to laugh about with diverse crowd of fellow patients in Jerusalem
By Rich Tenorio
Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897. (CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)
April 29, 2020, 2:14 pm
Book depicting a driven, fallible Herzl has fresh details on father of Zionism
New biography finds the middle ground between the usual portrayals of sainthood or villainy, and charts a charismatic, very human figure who suffered mood swings, marital woes
By Rich Tenorio
Victor Rasuk and Nathalie Kelley in ABC's new modern-day fairy tale 'The Baker and the Beauty.' (ABC/Guy D'Alema)
April 27, 2020, 10:38 pm
Adaptation of Israeli sitcom ‘Beauty and the Baker’ gets rise out of US audience
Episode 3 of the series ‘The Baker and the Beauty’ airs on ABC April 27; love overcomes race, class, and all expectations in the romantic comedy
By Rich Tenorio
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