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We have been very aware of the addictive nature of nicotine and the serious health risks of lung cancer (which kills more Americans than any other cancer), cardiovascular disease, respiratory illness, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (eventually leading to emphysema). About 20 percent of Americans still smoke, around 450,000 Americans die prematurely every year from […]

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The playing of musical instruments during the Omer period is frowned upon. The Museum of Jewish Heritage is looking to increase the number of younger people who cross its threshold. Why not turn a restriction into an opportunity? “Hip-hop is the best way to celebrate the counting of the Omer,” exclaims the MC known as […]

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For a candidate supposedly running on a Jewishly grounded “values renewal” program (according to the misleadingly titled “Boteach’s Kosher Candidacy,” March 30), Shmuley Boteach betrays considerable confusion about “values” generally and Jewish values in particular. To believe that “runaway materialism” was the source of our economic collapse and then align oneself with the Republican Party, […]

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