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Craig Goldman of Texas wins race, becoming 3rd Jewish Republican in Congress

November 5, 2024November 10, 2024Sara Wood

Craig Goldman, a businessman and Texas state legislator, handily won his congressional race in north Texas, bringing the number of Jewish Republicans in Congress to three for the first time in more than a decade. Goldman’s defeat Tuesday of Democrat Trey Hunt, by a margin of 64% to 36%, means that he succeeds Rep. Kay […]

How does the inability to burp affect daily life?

December 24, 2023December 26, 2023Arsen Mayer

Burping in public is not only embarrassing, but people who are unable to release gas from their stomach are unfortunate in other ways. The inability to burp, officially called “retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD),” is caused by the failure of the throat’s cricopharyngeal muscle to relax and allow the outward passage of gas. A burp or […]