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Pope Francis will migrate simbolically from Chiapas to Juarez
Pope Francis is expected to make immigration a major theme of his visit to Mexico. By traveling northward across Mexico, he intends to symbolically retrace the journey of Mexican and Central American migrants traveling...
DANCING IN YIDDISH @ Congregation Beth Ohr
Friday, Feb 12, 2016, 6:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City
12355 Moorpark St., Studio City 91604
RSVP required. Call 818-773-3663. $10 Donation.
Congregation Beth Ohr is proud to present Karen Goodman’s talk Dancing in Yiddish. Learn...
Finding Heavenly Immortality In A Computer Screen
As modern technology has become an integral part of more and more activities in everyday human life, more and more people are no longer content with leaving a surrogate immortality when they die: a...
A New Raft of Ocean Heroes: Imperial Beah’s Major among 2016 Peter Benchley Ocean...
What does the president of a Pacific island Nation, a New York Times reporter, a French sailing expedition and the mayor of a small San Diego border town have in common? They are among...
OECD Secretary-General Praises Ben-Gurion University’s Devotion to Turning the Negev into a “Garden” of...
OECD Secretary-General Jose Ángel Gurría warmly accepted the Ben-Gurion Leadership Award from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev President Prof. Rivka Carmi on Monday, praising BGU's leading role in the development of the Negev.
'Shimon Peres...
A New Study of Eichmann and the Origins of Evil Shows Why Radicals Like...
Colaboration: Jaime Murrow
After 50 years of controversy, and many paperback editions, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem has now been consigned to the dustbin of history. The final nail in the coffin of Arendt’s thesis is...
The profitable business of Israeli occupation
On Jan. 26, it was UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's turn to provide Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with justification for his weekly lecture that “the whole world is against us” and “the Arabs want...
Bet You Didn’t Know About the Jews of Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana
The House of Israel has a one-room synagogue and a miniature Torah that sits in a special wooden box. All work stops on Shabbat, the boys are circumcised a week after birth, and the...
Paul Rudd Challenges Stephen Hawking in Quantum Chess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0BzqV_b44
The actor and former Bar-Mitzvah DJ challenges the famous quantum physicist for a dramatic game of quantum chess in this new Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter video, narrated by Keanu Reeves (another...
Remembering David Stoliar, the Only Survivor of 1942 Struma Disaster
Last Saturday, the New York Times ran an obituary about David Stoliar, the only survivor aboard the Struma, a ship carrying an estimated 800 Romanian, Bulgarian, and Russian Jews, all fleeing the Holocaust. The ship,...