In Livingstone, Zambia, visitors on the Jewish tour will see a church that used to be a synagogue. The Jewish population peaked in the late 1950s, to some 1,000 community members. (photo by Rebecca Shapiro) “This guy came to stay,…
Museloop’s app that it created for Israel Museum. (photo from Museloop via Times of Israel) How do museums and other purveyors of history attract visitors and make the past relevant, especially as people come to expect more and more digital…
An artist’s impression of the newly discovered planet, Proxima Centauri b. (photo from ESO Kornmesser) An international team announced recently that a planet with a mass similar to that of earth has been observed orbiting the star Proxima Centauri –…
A European honey bee extracts nectar from an aster flower. (photo by John Severns via Wikimedia Commons) Around the world, bee populations have been decreasing in number, year by year, at an alarming rate. Such a tragedy isn’t just stinging…
Moises Brunstein now lives in Toronto, but he still has family in Venezuela. (photo from Moises Brunstein) Political upheaval, economic disintegration, rising crime rates and the implosion of social services have brought Venezuela to its knees. The lucky ones see…
Gwyneth Paltrow, left, and Zooey Deschanel at the Sage Summit in July. (photo by Dave Gordon) Some 15,000 entrepreneurs gathered in Chicago July 26-29 for the Sage Summit, to hear keynote speakers, network and browse the exhibitors’ stations, which spanned…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum (photo from auschwitz.org) On July 10, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum. He was accompanied by, among others, Nate Leipciger, a former prisoner of Auschwitz born in 1928 in…
On the back cover of Arnold Wesker’s book Say Goodbye: You May Never See Them Again, Alan Tapper is the third boy from the left seated on the ground and Arnold is the fourth. British playwright and author Arnold Wesker…
Citing both changing social practice and traditional Jewish values, the international association of Conservative rabbis passed a resolution on May 22 calling on Jewish institutions and government agencies to embrace the full equality of transgendered people. The Rabbinical Assembly’s Resolution…
In the historic referendum last week, the United Kingdom voted to leave the 28-nation European Union (EU), sending shockwaves throughout Europe and the international community. The results of the so-called “Brexit” vote – 52% in favor of exiting the EU…
