Tag: México
Losing One’s Touch For Touching
The human sense of touch seems to be under ongoing attack by modern technological innovation. In some cases, the experience of touching stimuli is reduced as in swiping one’s fingers over or typing...
Becoming A Part Of The Internet of Dogs
The main focus of this column has been the effects of modern technology on living environments and on humans and their behavior. My purpose has been to show how increasingly people are no...
Michael and Paula Mantell: Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle
How can one have a healthier and more meaningful lifestyle at any age? The former psychologist Dr. Michael Mantell and his wife, Paula Mantell, both in their mid 60’s, have found an answer. Mantell,...
Remembering a Woman Who Helped Yiddish Flourish in Mexico City
In 1945, a young girl from Brooklyn fell in love with a Mexican Jew and decided to leave it all to go to Mexico City. Little did she know her strong Yiddish upbringing would...
US Professor Amazed at Wealth in Gaza City; Notes 900 Mosques, Only 2 Libraries
A professor at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle visited Gaza City for six hours a few weeks ago, and he was astonished that after reading years of propaganda about...
Love the Stranger: How Canadian synagogues started sponsoring Syrian refugees
It was the photo that finally brought home the true horror of the Syrian refugee crisis: 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, lying face down on a Turkish beach, arms at his side, waves lapping around his...
Nearly half a million killed, and Syria civil war isn’t over
As the Syrian civil war is entering its sixth year and topping the half-million casualty mark, the Sha’ar Binyamin Institute, dedicated to preserving the past and present of the great Jewish community of Damascus,...
The Tourist Who Is Missing The Bus
For many of us, travel represents not only an opportunity to have new experiences and new adventures, but also a time when we temporarily have to sacrifice comforts from home. The hotel room is...
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...
Why Pope’s Visit to Rome Ghetto Means So Much to Italian Jews
In 1986, Pope John Paul II made history by paying a visit to Rome’s Great Synagogue.
In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI visited that synagogue again.
In 2016, Pope Francis visited for the third time.
As our ancient...