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Israeli horses’ ancient links

photo - In 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, archeologists excavating at the fifth-century CE Huqoq synagogue found a mosaic floor on which there is an image of an Egyptian soldier and his horse floundering in the Red Sea

In 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Jodi Magness of the University…

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  • March 23, 2018
  • Israel

Genetics or lifestyle?

image - Study brings hope for improving our health

Study brings hope for improving our health. The question of nature versus…

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  • March 23, 2018
  • Celebrating the Holidays

What is freedom?

photo - “Israel in Egypt” by Edward Poynter, 1867

“Israel in Egypt” by Edward Poynter, 1867. (photo from Wikimedia Commons) There…

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  • March 23, 2018
  • Celebrating the Holidays

Pesach’s lessons for today

photo - Israel's Escape from Egypt, illustration from a Bible card published in 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company

Israel’s Escape from Egypt, illustration from a Bible card published in 1907…

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  • March 23, 2018
  • Celebrating the Holidays

A few Pesach songs’ origins

photo - An illustration by Russian artist El Lissitzky in the book Had Gadya, 1919

An illustration by Russian artist El Lissitzky in the book Had Gadya,…

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  • March 23, 2018
  • Celebrating the Holidays

Contending with contradictions

photo - “The Four Sons,” Arthur Szyk, 1934. According to Wikimedia, Szyk “originally intended his Passover story of persecution and deliverance (told through the traditional text of the Haggadah) to be a strong statement against the Nazis, but no publisher in his native Poland dared take on a project with strong anti-Nazi iconography. He ultimately found a publisher in England. This image of the Four Sons … depicts the Wicked Son as an assimilated German complete with porkpie hat and Hitler mustache”

“The Four Sons,” Arthur Szyk, 1934. According to Wikimedia, Szyk “originally intended…

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  • March 23, 2018
  • עניין בחדשות

מדד השחיתות

photo - The index of the most corrupt countries in the world: Canada is in eighth place and Israel is only 32nd

מדד המדינות המושחתות בעולם: קנדה במקום השמיני וישראל רק במקום השלושים ושתיים.…

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  • March 21, 2018
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Winnipeggers reach to Israel

photo - Samara Carroll, second from the left, with Dawit Demoz, right, and members of his host family – Sunita and her daughter Persia

Samara Carroll, second from the left, with Dawit Demoz, right, and members…

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  • March 16, 2018
  • Performing Arts

The telling of stories

photo - Left to right: Yoo Ra Ka (Asaka, Mother of the Earth), Ricardo Pequenino (Agwe, God of Water), Alexandra Quispe (Erzulie, Goddess of Love) and Sari Rosofsky (Papa Ge, Sly Demon of Death) in Fabulist Theatre’s production of Once On This Island, which opens April 6

Left to right: Yoo Ra Kang (Asaka, Mother of the Earth), Ricardo…

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  • March 16, 2018
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When will it be enough?

photo - Russian President Vladimir Putin

For a people who make up a fraction of one percent of…

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  • March 16, 2018
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