Prof. Mark Eidelman, director of the pediatric orthopedics unit at Rambam’s Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, second from the left, with African colleagues at the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa. (photo from Rambam Medical Centre) Dozens of doctors from Ethiopia…
Ralph Lauren in 1978. (photo by Edgar de Evia) Born 79 years ago, in New York, to Frieda and Frank Lifshitz, immigrants from Belarus, Ralph Lifshitz, better known as Ralph Lauren, has become a universal household name. The youngest of…
The mikvah at Herodian, which was apparently built during the Second Temple period (530 BCE and 70 CE). (photo by Deborah Rubin Fields) The Dark Ages weren’t given their name for nothing. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, sanitation…
Bennett and Sally Shaywitz co-founded the Yale Centre for Dyslexia and Creativity. (photo from the Shaywitzes) One out of five people has dyslexia. Yet, even with this many people affected, not every school tests for it. This can lead to…
Ben Stein and Ann Coulter at Politicon in Los Angeles on Oct. 20. (photo by Rich Polk-Getty Images for Politicon) From pundits to Hollywood types, there were many Jewish names on the speaker roster at this year’s Politicon, the fourth…
Israeli Minister of Jews in the Diaspora and Minister of Education Naftali Bennett addresses a memorial in Pittsburgh on Oct. 28. (Alexi Rosenfeld courtesy Ashernet) On Sunday, Oct. 28, Israeli Minister of Jews in the Diaspora and Minister of Education…
(photo by Alan Katowitz) Hundreds of Vancouverites came together Sunday night, driven by the need for community after the news that 11 congregants were murdered during services at a Pittsburgh synagogue a day earlier. The attack – the deadliest terror…
Israel’s IVC Research Centre concludes that, with each passing year, some 16% more companies have at least one Chinese investor. (photo by Dave Gordon) With headlines proclaiming the largest trade war in history, the United States and China began dueling…
April Ford (photo by Antonella Fratino) In the fifth and final articles of a series on sexual harassment and violence, the Jewish Independent speaks with Montreal writer April Ford. As the late Maya Angelou wrote in I Know Why the…
Prof. Liat Ben-Moshe teaches disability studies at the University of Toledo. (photo from Liat Ben-Moshe) University of Toledo assistant professor Liat Ben-Moshe moved to the United States in 2002 to do her doctorate in disability studies at Syracuse University, as…
