Warren Kimmel won a Jessie Award for his portrayal of the title character in the Snapshots Collective’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. (photo from Snapshots Collective) The 37th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards were held on July…
Lea Gottlieb at work. (photo from Lea Gottlieb Archive via Design Museum Holon) Summertime … bathing suit season. As a child, I fondly remember our family trips to Israel. Among all the memories is the treat of a scrumptious falafel…
(photo from University of Haifa via Ashernet) This pre-Columbian cultural artifact at the University of Haifa is one of the mysterious art objects from Puerto Rico that were alleged to have been made by members of the Ten Lost Tribes.…
(Mario Hoppmann/NASA) חוקרים בכירים ארה”ב: הקרח באזורים הארקטיים של קנדה החל להפשיר שבעים שנה לפני התחזיות משלחת מאוניברסיטת אלסקה (בפיירבנקס) מצאה שינויים ניכרים בתוואי הקרקע הקפואה באזורים הארטקטיים של קנדה, במהלך שלוש עשרה שנים: בין אלפים ושלוש לאלפיים ושש עשרה.…
This colour image was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft early Dec. 12, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.6 million miles from the earth. (photo from NASA/JPL) It’s been 50 years since Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk…
The Goldene Medina exhibit is designed to have the feel of a scrapbook album, to have come from any Jewish South African’s family memoir. (photo from South African Jewish Museum) The Goldene Medina exhibit arrives in Vancouver July 29 for…
Members of Vancouver Talmud Torah’s Grade 7 chesed club with Gia Tran, a local woman who raises money for cancer research by taking refundable containers to a bottle depot. (photo from VTT) Since 2014, Vancouver Talmud Torah has offered a…
Mira Weigensberg and her husband, Oren Kessler, started Tekoa Farms in 1986. (photo by Barry A. Kaplan) When Mira Weigensberg, who was born and raised in Montreal, and her husband, Oren Kessler, from Brooklyn, moved to Israel in 1979, she…
Dozens of undamaged pottery vessels have been discovered so far at the site. (photos from Israel Antiquities Authority via Ashernet) In 2015, archeologists began an excavation in the Judean Foothills, between Kiryat Gat and Lachish. In research conducted in a…
ד”ר נורמן בארווין (CBC) רופא לפוריות באוטווה ננזף השבוע רשמית על כך שהפרה לפחות אחת עשרה נשים עם הזרע שלו, והפרה עוד עשרות ביציות של מטופלות עם זרעונים לא של האב המיועד בתחילת שנות השבעים. ד”ר נורמן בארווין (בן שמונים…
