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Speaking

By Barbara Beznos, RD/LD/N
Integrated Nutrition, LLC

DEAR BARB,

Please review the
"vegetarian diet"
for myself and
our readers of
your column.

Have You Heard?

U-M’s Frankel Institute produces
podcasts of Jewish learning.

Ros

Dear Ros,
This has become a popular topic
with my clients and those who
have heart issues. Dark leafy green
vegetables have good sources of
magnesium that helps the heart
perform better. One also needs to
have everyday the proper amount
of vitamins and minerals and there
are plenty of food sources that fall
into these categories which are
impossible to list in this article.
A very low fat vegetarian diet
does contribute to better choices.
You can begin by keeping only
a few animal sources like egg
whites, skim milk, low fat yogurts
which might help for weight loss
if needed and if you have angina
pain or heart issues.

There are many ways to create
wonderful meals and it should be
a pleasant experience in learning.
Good olive oil is essential as cold
pressed olive oil retains all its
natural properties and it is more
digestible. Use vegetable stock,
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herbs.

You must have a love and respect
for vegetables and it might take
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be exciting and fun creating for
family and friends. It is a lifestyle
change that must continue. It
is worth trying something new,
enjoying the process, and this will
allow you to enjoy the results to a
better life.

Contact Barb At:

Integrated Nutrition, L.L.C.

31731 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 105 E
Farmington Hills, Mi 48334

Phone:
(248) 538-8050

E-Mail:
rds@integratednutrition.com
Web:
www.integratednutrition.com

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Jackie Headapohl | Managing Editor

W

ould you like the chance for
Jewish learning but don’t
have time to attend lectures
or take a formal seminar? No problem.
The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic
Studies at the University of Michigan has
you covered. It is soon to begin its second
season of “Frankely Judaic: Explorations
in Jewish Studies” podcasts.
Each year, the Frankel Institute hosts
about eight fellows — scholars from
around the world — to conduct research
on a given theme. This year, that theme is
“Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures:
Comparative Approaches.”
Dozens of schol-
ars compete for the
chance to come to
Ann Arbor, according
to Frankel Director
Jeffrey Veidlinger. The
fellows are chosen by
a steering committee
and funded through
Jeffrey
a
financial contribu-
Veidlinger
tion from the Jean
and Samuel Frankel Jewish Heritage
Foundation.
The Frankel Institute seeks to advance
Jewish studies globally and offers a broad
range of events to the public, including
lectures, symposia, art exhibitions and
musical performances. Early in 2016,
Veidlinger added podcasts to the mix, for
“those who can’t always make it to Ann
Arbor.”
“We envisioned the Frankely Judaic
podcast as much more than just an
interview or a recording of a lecture,”
Veidlinger said. “Each episode is profes-
sionally produced and edited to present
scholarly research in an accessible and
entertaining form that makes you want
to listen.”
The Frankely Judaic podcast, available
on iTunes and SoundCloud, highlights
the innovative research being conducted

by Frankel fellows. Examples from last
semester include “A Rosenberg by Any
Other Name,” which explores why so
many American Jews changed their
names in the 20th century. Other epi-
sodes explore the American movement
to free Soviet Jewry and the relationship
between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
“I think there’s really
an audience for these
podcasts, an opportu-
nity for anybody inter-
ested in Judaic studies
or Israel to get an
inside glimpse at the
cutting-edge research
going on in the field,”
Jeremy Shere
said podcast producer
Jeremy Shere, who
happens to hold a Ph.D. in Judaic studies
from Indiana University, where he met
Veidlinger, who was a professor there
at the time. A U-M alum, Shere lives in
Bloomington, Ind., and interviews the
fellows remotely.
Shere, who has extensive experience as
a podcast producer, strives to make the
research easy to understand for listeners.
“So much academic research, while
often fascinating, is rarely accessible to
people outside the academy,” he said. He
uses storytelling narrative style, not Q &
A, to tell the fellows’ stories. The 10-15
minute podcasts are reminiscent of the
This American Life format.
“This second season will be themed
around Israel,” said Shere, who will
produce the first episode this month.
The episodes will feature the 2016-2017
Frankel fellows.
You can subscribe to the free podcast
on iTunes or Sound Cloud for new epi-
sodes to appear in your feed. Episodes
are also available on the Frankely Judaic
website, lsa.umich.edu/judaic/resources/
frankely-judaic-podcasts.html.

*

2016-17 Frankel Fellows

Naomi Brenner, Ohio State
University, “Best-Sellers and the
Boundaries of Hebrew Literature”
Liora Halperin, University of
Colorado-Boulder, “Memories of
Violence: The First Aliyah and its After-
Images”
Mostafa Hussein, Brandies University,
“Refraction of Arabo-Islamic
Civilization in Hebrew and Israeli
Cultures”
Noah Hysler-Rubin, Bezalel Academy
for Arts and Design, “Planning
Palestine: A Comprehensive Approach
for the Study of Israel’s Urban History”
Lior Libman, University of New York-
Binghampton, “Jews in a Harness: The
Socialist-Zionist Labor Movement and
Hasidism”
Aviad Moreno, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, “From Morocco, in
Another Way: Aliyah and Other Jewish
Migrations from Northern Morocco”
Shachar Pinsker, University of
Michigan, “A Silent Language? Yiddish
in Israeli Literature”
Bryan Roby, University of
Manchester, “Blackness and the
Double-Consciousness of Arab Jews:
A Comparative History of the Mizrahi
and African American Experience”
Gavin Schaffer, University of
Birmingham, “Where is Home? Aliyah
and British Jews since 1967”
Rachel Selig, University of Chicago,
“Motherless Tongues: German-Hebrew
Literary Exchange”
Shayna Zamkanei, University of
Chicago, “The Arabized Jewish
Diaspora”
Zael Zerubavel, Rutgers University,
“Biblical Reenactments: The
Performance of Antiquity in Modern
Israeli Culture”