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Plagues Suck (or: Passover in a time of plague)

Posted on 2020/04/08 by davka

A friend called me the oth­er day won­der­ing why the Hebrew word ״מַכּוֹת״ in the phrase: “אֵלּוּ עֶשֶׂר מַכּוֹת שֶׁהֵבִיא הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא עַל הַמִּצְרִים בְּמִצְרַיִם, וְאֵלּוּ הֵן:” is trans­lat­ed as “plagues”. He, an Israeli whose orig­i­nal lan­guage is Hebrew … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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#blogelul — know

Posted on 2013/08/12 by davka

what might know­ing change? What does this (from a recent arti­cle in the For­ward) mean? …aggres­sive pre­na­tal genet­ic test­ing has effec­tive­ly erad­i­cat­ed dev­as­tat­ing con­di­tions such as Tay-Sachs… a friend knows I asked my friend Jane Her­man who has the BRCA muta­tion why … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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