Marissa Cepelinski during the 2014 Run for Water. (photo from Marissa Cepelinski) Some people spend their entire lives trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Some know when they’re just a kid. At a rather young…
This year’s Limmud Vancouver had about 35 percent more attendees than it did last year. (photo by Robert Albanese) About 350 lifelong learners spent the day exploring a huge diversity of Jewish ideas at the second annual Limmud Vancouver event Feb.…
Moishe House (and friends) show off their “Most Jewish Table” certificates. From left to right are Alexei Schwartzman, Benjamin Groberman, Carol Moutal, Jordan Stenzler, Shayna Goldberg and Kevin Veltheer. (photo by Robert Albanese) Music. Storytelling. Video. Flash dance. These were just…
The Tran-Israel oil pipeline spill near the Evrona Nature Reserve in the Arava Desert has harmed flora and fauna. (photo by Menachem Zalutzki via Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection) On Dec. 3, 2014, a fractured pipe created the biggest oil spill…
Twenty Orthodox Jewish outreach groups to fundraise together. The Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals (AJOP) has issued a challenge to North American Orthodox Jewish outreach organizations to raise $1 million in one day collaboratively. And it’s all or nothing. Each…
A senior delegation from Shengjing visits JVP in Jerusalem. (photo by Yael Rivkind, JVP, via israel21c.org) Fiona Darmon, a partner at JVP, one of Israel’s most successful venture capital funds, was recently in China at a meeting with a large investor.…
Leket provides 25,000 volunteers every year to pick crops in the field of Sandy Colb. (photo from israel21c.org) Along with his Ivy League diplomas, a second-grade “master gardener” certificate hangs on the wall of Rehovot patent attorney Sandy Colb’s office. Now…
Digital Shmita is one of four projects that received 2015 Natan Grants for ROI Entrepreneurs. A digital Shmita project, Israel’s version of the radio show This American Life, a global initiative promoting tourism to Jewish communities and a foundation supporting…
Researchers have shown that the brains of bats contain neurons that sense which way the bat’s head is pointed and could, therefore, support the animal’s navigation in 3-D space. (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden…
נשיא מדינת ישראל בעת פגישת עבודה מדינית עם שר החוץ של קנדה, ג’ון ביירד – 18 בינואר. (צילום: דוברות בית הנשיא) ישראל איבדה ידיד קרוב: שר החוץ הקנדי פרש מתפקידו במפתיע שר החוץ של ממשלת קנדה ג’ון בירד, הודיע ביום שלישי…
