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די אומגעריכטע הצלחה פֿון „פֿידלער אויפֿן דאַך אויף ייִדיש‟ האָט, סוף־כּל־סוף, געוויזן דער וועלט אַז דער טעאַטער־עולם איז גרייט און וויליק צו זען אַ מיוזיקל וווּ דער דיאַלאָג און די לידער זענען אין גאַנצן...
George Rosenkranz, one of the inventors of the birth control pill, dies at 102
George Rosenkranz, a chemist who synthesized the key ingredient in the birth control pill, has died. Rosenkranz is survived by his wife and two of his three sons, and nine grandchildren.
Following a harrowing escape...
Jack Hughes becomes first Jewish player to be first overall pick in NHL draft
Jack Hughes became the first Jewish player to be the No. 1 overall pick in the National Hockey League draft.
Hughes, 18, was selected on June 21 by the New Jersey Devils.
He comes from a...
Phoenix Jewish community remembers Rabbi Yosef Garcia
Yosef was a fitting name for the late Rabbi Yosef Garcia, mused Rabbi Sarah Leah Grafstein of Ruach Hamidbar—Spirit of the Desert.
“Joseph in the Torah was the one who took care of all of...
Cantorial Jewels, by Richard Tucker
Richard Tucker was unquestionably America’s greatest tenor. As with many of his contemporaries, the Second World War gave him the opportunity to establish himself in this country, and for the next quarter of a...
Touchdown! NFL, Patriots, Kraft score friends and followers in Israel
As he was coaching young Israeli high school players during an American football in Israel (AFI) scrimmage game at the Kraft Family Sports Campus this past Friday morning in Jerusalem—and with six New England...
Arming synagogues? Jewish leaders grapple with balancing safety and accessibility
In the aftermath of two synagogue shootings exactly six months apart, in addition to arson incidents at Chabad Houses in Massachusetts and an attempted arson attempt at a Chicago synagogue last month, the issue of...
Jerusalem College women’s hackathon leads to device to gauge oxygen levels in babies
More than 100 religious women students from Jerusalem College of Technology/Machon Tal worked around the clock last week as part of the second annual Hack@Tal, a 44-hour hackathon for the school’s Torah-observant women students.
The...
Program for visiting Chinese students aims to turn them into ‘ambassadors for Israel’
This week, dozens of students marked the end of the largest-ever extracurricular academic program for visiting Chinese students in Israel.
The program, run by the Zionist organization Im Tirtzu, consists of tours and lectures in...
Seven ‘Women of Valor’ saluted at Jewish Arts Festival
Celebrating its tenth anniversary as an annual part of the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, this year’s Women of Valor featured seven outstanding local Jewish women, Jaqui Silver, Pianist and Educator; Allison...