Climate Change: Canadian JNF Launches Annual $1 Million Prize for Innovative Israeli Solutions
Since an estimated 326,000 Jews live in the country, that amount is quite impressive.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Announces He Is Retiring After More Than 27 Years of Service
Justice Stephen Breyer has announced he will be stepping down from the Supreme Court in late June or early July, once his successor has been nominated and confirmed.
Dr. Arik Kershenbaum: If Complex Extraterrestrial Lifeforms Do Exist, What Might They Be Like?
If complex alien lifeforms do exist on other planets, what might they look like? How much would they resemble us? How would they function, communicate, and reproduce? Those and other intriguing questions about possible extraterrestrial life have long interested Dr. Arik Kershenbaum, an Israeli-educated zoologist who lives in the U.K. and teaches at Cambridge University.…
Sen. Jon Ossoff’s Blockbuster Speech Against Restricting Voting Rights Goes ‘Megaviral’
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D. Ga.), 34, recently delivered a powerful speech on the Senate floor, forcefully arguing against restricting voting rights…
Looking Back at the Jews of Lithuania Before the War, Understanding Litvak Haredi Culture
Before World War II, Lithuania had a large, vibrant Jewish community, largely centered in Vilnius.
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