Book Review: ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’
Try to picture the words in this book’s title: “Giraffes on Horseback Salad.” Can you picture it? A giraffe astride a horse; two legs on one side of the horse’s midsection, two legs on...
Holocaust train car arrives in New York for Auschwitz exhibit in New York
A crane lowered a train car onto tracks on Sunday outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York—a boxcar that carried Jews and others to their deaths at Auschwitz and other Nazi death...
Art meets science: Is that a field of flowers or the brain of a...
An exhibit by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa exemplifies that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
“LABSCAPES: Views Through the Microscope” showcases the work of renowned researchers at Israel’s leading institute...
New UN exhibit shows Israel’s ‘Above and Beyond’ humanitarian efforts around the world
An exhibit accessible for one week at the United Nations headquarters in New York City highlighted Israel’s humanitarian-aid efforts across the globe.
Organized by the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, “Israel’s Humanitarian Aid Around...
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s latest book examines ‘America’s Abdication and the Fate of the World’
From fighting for human rights to advocating for the Kurds and their desire for a homeland, Bernard-Henri Lévy, 70, has sounded the alarm on contemporary issues and issued warnings about the decline on the...
Temple Mount comes alive (literally) in new exhibit in Jerusalem
A few years ago, The New York Times called Temple Mount “the world’s most contested piece of real estate.” This week, a new exhibit of photographs of the site that’s holy to billions of people around the...
Medicine and design exhibit opens at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem
An inaugural exhibition at the Azrieli Gallery on Hanevi’im Street in Jerusalem (also known as “Hospitals Street”) at Hadassah Academic College’s new Helmsley Building opened its first-ever exhibit on medicine, designers and cultural implications,...
Book Review: ‘kaddish.com’ by Nathan Englander
As a young man, Larry, bridles at having to sit shiva for his father and absolutely refuses to say kaddish for him for the year after his death. Instead, he arranged for someone in Jerusalem, whom...
What Elie Wiesel taught his students
Witness: Lesson’s from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York © 2018, ISBN 9781328802699.
Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016), Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate, perhaps best known for his memoir Night, and...
Off Broadway Play about Famous Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal Debuts in Marietta
(Atlanta, GA) March 14, 2019 The critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Wiesenthal is coming to the Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theater in Marietta on May 29th for a series of seven performances.
Wiesenthal, a one-man...