By Deborah Fineblum (July 14, 2021 / JNS) Why is Tisha B’Av the saddest day of the Jewish year? Eerily, not only were both of the holy temples in Jerusalem destroyed on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av (the first one, built by King Solomon, was demolished by the Babylonians in 586 […]
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion
By Sam Ben-Meir, Ph.D NEW YORK — What are the aesthetic, sensuous, and expressive possibilities inherent in clay as a material substance in all its physicality? How is it possible that ceramics can restore, or rather reconfigure and remake our relationship to the natural world? These are among the fundamental questions posed by “Shapes from
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA
(July 15, 2021 / JNS) A U.S. federal court found the Iranian banks — Merkazi, Melli, and Saderat — liable for the murder carried out by Hamas against U.S. citizens Eitam Henkin and his wife Na’ama in Israel in 2015. Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner and MM LAW LLC won the court battle on Monday
RAMAT GAN, Israel (Press Release) – Social networks among animals are critical to various aspects of their lives, including reproductive success and survival, and could even teach us more about human relationships. Dr. Amiyaal Ilany, a biologist at the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, integrates behavioral ecology,
Social ties are inherited among spotted hyenas, Israeli research reveals Read More »
Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Josh Hasten (July 15, 2021 / JNS) SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit organization that strives to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and dreamers through innovative space missions, announced this week that it has secured crucial funding towards the launch of the “Beresheet 2” Spacecraft mission in 2024 with the goal of sending Israel
Israel redoubles efforts for second attempt to land on moon Read More »
Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — In the 18th July 21 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include: Israeli tech restores the sense of touch and helps the blind to “see.” Celebrating Israel’s first deaf MK and its first visually impaired doctor. Israel’s second moonshot project gets huge funding boost. Israeli scientists have made
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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Dr. Iair Arcavi, a Tel Aviv University researcher at the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, participated in a study that discovered a new type of stellar explosion – an electron-capture supernova. While they have been theorized for 40 years, real-world examples have been elusive. Such supernovas arise
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France — Whenever I’m in France, usually for a month or two in the summer, I do my best to read and listen to (and speak) French. I listen to the French classical music program on the radio, where there seems to be rather a lot of talking. This usually consists
Torah reading is Devarim, Deuteronomy 1-3:1-22; Haftorah is Isaiah 1, 1-27. By Irv Jacobs, M.D. These entirely poetic passages are attributed to Isaiah I, son of Amoz, written c. 735–701 BCE. However, scholars suspect unknown contributors likely added insertions. Altogether, the Hebrew poetry is well executed by accomplished writer(s). The time frame of the entire
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
(July 14, 2021 / JNS) The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education recommended a $10 million funding increase on Tuesday for the Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program (HASP) for the fiscal year 2022. According to a news release from the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), the program is a public-private
Congress doubles funding request for assistance to Holocaust survivors Read More »
USA
By Israel Kasnett (July 14, 2021 / JNS) Jordan’s King Abdullah II has often described his country as being wedged between a “rock and a hard place,” referring to war-torn Iraq and the Israeli-controlled areas west of the Jordan River. And that may certainly have been true for many years, but now that the United
Are Israel and Jordan ready to turn over a new leaf? Read More »
Middle East
(July 14, 2021 / JNS) The U.N. General Assembly acknowledged a link between terrorism antisemitism in its recently passed Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) for the first time—a move that has been applauded by pro-Israel and Jewish organizations. The GCTS, which lays out the world body’s strategy for combating terrorism, is required to be reviewed and
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International, Middle East, USA
Published by Miami Herald SURFSIDE, Fla. – It’s been six days since authorities found the body of Maria Gabriela Camou in the rubble of the Surfside condo collapse, but her family says funeral plans must wait until the search crew finds her husband of 40 years, Miguel Kaufman. “We thought the next day they would
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USA
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Some 135 years after the arrival of its big sister in New York, a relatively diminutive replica Statue of Liberty was unveiled Wednesday in the US capital as a token of American-French friendship. The replica, standing at around 10 feet (three meters) tall — compared to the famed 300-foot-tall
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USA