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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Soupy Sales

Soupy Sales (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009) was an American comedian, actor, radio-television personality, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children’s television series, Lunch with Soupy Sales (later titled The Soupy Sales Show) (1953–1966), a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. [Wikipedia]

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Tel Aviv University Archaeologists Theorize Why There are No Prehistoric Cave Paintings in Israel

For over a century, archaeologists have puzzled over the absence of cave art in the Levant in general and specifically in Israel. Now a team of archaeologists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) proposes an original explanation: prehistoric humans in the Levant did not create cave paintings because many large animals, the subjects of cave art in Western Europe, were already extinct there. [Press Release]

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Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine Were Contributors to Jewish Music

In the USSR, Jewish life, Jewish religion and Jewish education were forbidden. Anyone who wanted to learn about Jewishness had to seek out ways to learn about it at his or her own risk. Jewish melodies could pour from different and unexpected sources. Lord George Gordon Byron suddenly turned out to be one such source for me. [Alex Gordon]

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New Year’s Resolutions Are Kept for an Average of Two Weeks

I read somewhere that people stick to their New Year’s Resolutions for only two weeks. Two weeks after New Years Day, people give up. I found that a little sad.[Cailin Acosta]

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A Vegan Celebration of the New Year

My family and I have a tradition of staying in on New Year’s Eve and I do a Thanksgiving repeat of the Tofurkey surrounded by veggies and my mushroom gravy, salad, macaroni and cheese and Julian apple pie for dessert. [Cailin Acosta]

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Israel Museum Exhibits Art of Joseph Hirsch, a Cousin

The exhibition displays about 25 of Hirsch’s works in pen and wash (he worked using only shades of grey) presenting his unique and insightful way of seeing the world, whether depicting sitting or reclining models, still lifes or fantastical creatures and images. It is difficult to categorize his work, which seems to lie on the cusp between surrealism and German expressionism. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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The Mitzvah of Donating Blood

A week ago, I donated another pint of my O negative blood as my eight weeks had passed which made me eligible. I like to post it on my Facebook page to remind me when I donated and all those that I am friends with know I have their backs if they ever need me to save their lives. Or to also remind them to be extra nice to me as I recover and rest and hydrate. Sometimes the effects can last one to two days after. [Cailin Acosta]

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