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Rich Tenorio
This photo of Dr. Robert Lefkowitz in his office at Duke University captures a pose that all of his trainees will undoubtedly find familiar: feet up on the desk, smile on his face, exulting over the latest data. (Courtesy)
March 1, 2021, 3:50 am
How a Nobel-winning ‘accidental scientist’ changed the world by saving himself
Robert Lefkowitz documents his career, culminating in a discovery used in 50% of FDA approved drugs in new memoir, ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm,’ out this month
By Rich Tenorio
Clockwise from top left: 'Bukra fil Mish Mish' poster; L to R: David, Shlomo, and Herschel Frenkel, with the poster for a Mish Mish film; director Tal Michael; Mish Mish opposite real-life Lebanese singer Sabah. (Courtesy Menemsha Films/ photo of Michael courtesy Michael)
February 18, 2021, 11:38 pm
‘Jewish Disney bros’ who founded Egypt animation industry make triumphant return
Tal Michael’s film ‘Bukra fil Mish Mish’ focuses on the Frenkels, a long-forgotten trio who launched a cartoon company by their bootstraps in the 1930s before being forced to flee
By Rich Tenorio
Gerard van Honthorst, 'Adoration of the Shepherds,' 1622. 'The Bible With and Without Jesus' looks at verses that can be interpreted to predict Jesus's birth. (Public domain)
December 25, 2020, 4:32 pm
The Bible without Jesus? How two faiths can read the same text in dissonant ways
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler parse opposing interpretations Jews and Christians have of the same Bible, and make the argument that religion doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game
By Rich Tenorio
Celebrity chef Pati Jinich in the kitchen at a pecan hacienda, or farm, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (Courtesy Jinich)
December 11, 2020, 10:05 pm
TV chef brings Mexican latkes and jalapeno matzah ball soup north of border
Pati Jinich boasts a rich culinary heritage from grandparents who fled to Mexico after the Holocaust, and uses it to educate Americans — from the small screen to the White House
By Rich Tenorio
Jonathan Rothberg aboard his superyacht Gene Machine with his home coronavirus test, Detect. (Courtesy)
December 5, 2020, 4:30 pm
On land and sea, US presidential-honored scientist works toward home virus test
Serial start-upper Jonathan Rothberg aims to turn tide of pandemic with a coronavirus testing kit he devised while isolating with vulnerable family members aboard his superyacht
By Rich Tenorio
'Embarkation of the Pilgrims,' by Robert Walter Weir, circa 1857. (Public domain/ Brooklyn Museum online collection)
November 26, 2020, 1:39 am
Back in 1620, the Pilgrim leader behind the 1st Thanksgiving was Hebrew-obsessed
William Bradford’s ‘Of Plymouth Plantation’ features about 1,000 words in the biblical tongue. But although many early Protestants studied Hebrew, they were hardly philo-Semitic
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Not a member of the Catholic Jesuit order, Cesare Vincenzo Orsenigo was a top Vatican diplomatic link with the Nazi regime. In this 1939 photo he speaks with Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, with Adolf Hitler in the background. (Bundesarchiv bild)
November 10, 2020, 3:02 pm
Jesuit Catholic priest pens book about his order’s complicity in the Holocaust
Historian James Bernauer’s book ‘Jesuit Kaddish’ surprises academic Catholic order with a novel study of its members’ anti-Semitism — and honors those who saved Jews during WWII
By Rich Tenorio
Harry S. Truman holds up an Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced 'Dewey Defeats Truman' on November 4, 1948. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)
November 3, 2020, 4:01 pm
How a nascent Israel was a key issue in Truman’s stunning 1948 election upset
As another unpredictable election plays out, author A.J. Baime tells how support for the Jewish state and civil rights were both central to an underdog incumbent’s campaign
By Rich Tenorio
'The War With Grandpa' executive producer Tre Peart next to his chair. (Courtesy 101 Studios)
October 20, 2020, 3:08 am
15-year-old producer is behind the box office victor ‘The War With Grandpa’
Conquering other pandemic-era releases in ticket sales since its Oct. 9 open, the film starring Robert De Niro is based on the very Jewish children’s book by Robert Kimmel Smith
By Rich Tenorio
'Hidden Heretics' and author Ayala Fader. (Princeton University Press)
October 19, 2020, 1:59 am
Author: Ultra-Orthodox ‘Hidden Heretics’ believe in science, reject COVID rebels
In new book, Fordham professor Ayala Fader exposes a subset of the insular community few outsiders know about: a group of doubters united through a banned medium — the internet
By Rich Tenorio
Jordan Blashek, left, and Christopher Haugh are the co-authors of 'Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground.' (Courtesy)
October 1, 2020, 1:17 pm
Political odd couple takes epic road trip across polarized US in search of unity
Unlikely Yale Law buddies Christopher Haugh and Jordan Blashek find common ground on a 20,000-mile, 44-state journey documented in their new book ‘Union,’ released this summer
By Rich Tenorio
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
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