Barry Sonnenfeld, 69, is an acclaimed cinematographer and movie director. His directorial credits include The Addams Family; Addams Family Values; the three Men in Black films; Wild, Wild West; and Get Shorty. Sonnenfeld’s credits as a cinematographer include Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Throw Momma from the Train, and When Harry Met Sally. …
Nathan Englander, 50, has penned two highly acclaimed compilations of short stories…
Leonard “Len” Adleman is a leading American computer scientist who received…
Last month we featured an item about the restoration of a historic synagogue in Egypt, a project financed by that country’s government. This month, along the same lines, we bring the extraordinary story of two Egyptian women -– Magda Haroun, a Jew (pictured left) and Marwa Abu Dagga, a Muslin of Palestinian background -– who…
Vered Noam, a professor at Tel Aviv University, has become the first woman to win the Israel Prize for Talmudic Scholarship. Noam is a trailblazer, considering that the ultra-Orthodox establishment is not receptive to women studying the Talmud. In taking an academic route, Noam managed to surmount the barriers to her becoming a brilliant, highly…
A medical device invented by Dr. Eliezer Be’eri of Jerusalem’s ALYN Hospital 10 years ago is in an advanced approval stage by Chinese authorities for use with COVID-19 patients. Once it is approved — which may happen in a matter of weeks — the CoughSynch machine will remove secretions from patients’ lungs and may help…
Bea Zalsow was born in 1914 in The Bronx, New York, when ragtime was in full swing and Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States. A century later, she gave an interview about life and her philosophy regarding reaching an advanced age. A brief segment of the interview is linked below. Bea Zaslow passed…
Businessman and philanthropist Steve Ballmer, 63, is perhaps best known for his stint as CEO of the Microsoft Corporation, which lasted from 2000 to 2014. Currently he owns the NBA team Los Angeles Clippers. Ballmer is also known for his extremely exuberant style (which some would say is over the top and crazed). He’s reported…
Dr. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College, London. A primary focus…
Amy Berman Jackson, 65, is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was the presiding judge in the criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Judge Jackson sentenced Manafort to nearly four years in prison — which, when added to another sentence he…
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