Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu places a wreath at Yad Vashem on Yom Hashoah. (photo from IGPO via Ashernet) On Yom Hashoah, Israel comes to a virtual standstill at 11 a.m., for two minutes, as sirens wail across the country…
השרה קרינה גולד. (Twitter) ממשלת קנדה מתכוננת במלוא המרץ לבחירות הכלליות שייערכו בחודש אוקטובר הקרוב. הממשלה מעוניינת למנוע מעורבות חיצונית כפי שקרתה במערכת הבחירות האחרונות בארה”ב. הממשלה בוחנת את האפשרויות שונות בהן: חקיקה חדשה שתחזק את הפיקוח על הרשתות החברתיות…
Left to right are gala honouree Anita Silber, Shalhevet Girls High School head of school Meira Federgrun and Shalhevet board president Vivian Claman. (Jocelyne Hallé Photography) On April 7, Shalhevet Girls High School honoured Anita Silber with the Guardian of…
Springfield Collegiate Institute students walking into Auschwitz. (photo by Jim Osler, SCI) Holocaust education is commonplace in Jewish schools. But, in public schools, discussion about the Shoah is at each teacher’s discretion. Some 14 months ago, teachers at Springfield Collegiate…
Ety Siton, left, director of the Kfar Saba branch of ERAN, also oversees the Toronto volunteers. She is pictured with Sigal Almog, co-founder of Toronto’s ERAN project. (photo from ERAN) Finding enough volunteers in Israel for the night shift of…
Charleen Glaun, centre, receives her certificate of service from Sar-El from madrichot Inbar, left, and Carmel. Glaun hopes to volunteer with Sar-El annually from here on out. (photo from Charleen Glaun) At last, I was on the plane to Israel.…
An April 15 press tour took journalists to the Israeli side of the Jordan River. Joshua and the Israelites made their crossing here. (photo by Gil Zohar) Seventeen bulletproof buses of pilgrims, plus one carrying journalists, spilled their contents April…
Christians preparing to be baptized in the Jordan River. (photo by Barry Kaplan) A few days prior to Passover, the Israeli Government Press Office organized a special field trip to the Jordan River and Jericho. The bus with 40 journalists…
Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein (photo from Yad Vashem via Ashernet) On April 13, 1944, sisters Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein (in photo) wrote their father Hugo a short letter: “Dear Daddy, We are well – goodbye.” Hugo had been drafted into…
Subjects given problems to solve as they inhaled did better on tests. (image from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) A shot of espresso, a piece of chocolate or a headstand – all of these have been recommended before taking a big test. The best…
