admin | February 26, 2022
In 1911, my grandpa Jake was born in the small Hungarian village of Torun in the Carpathian Mountains. While he was still a child, the village became a part of Czechoslovakia, and after World War II, it fell within the borders of Ukraine.
admin | February 26, 2022
Who, among the Children of Israel, contributed textiles, precious metals, and other materials for the construction of the Tabernacle (Mishkan)?
admin | February 26, 2022
Portrait of Charles Dodgson Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pseudonym Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898), was a British author best known for his iconic Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There (1871), the latter of which included several celebrated poems such as Jabberwocky, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and The Hunting of the Snark. A polymath, he was a leading photographer and portraitist in the nascent field of photography; the creator of several games, including the doublet word ladder, still popular today, and a forerunner of Scrabble; and an inventor, whose creations include the nyctograph, a device that facilitated the ability to write in the dark
admin | February 26, 2022
With their sparkling jewels, gold trimmings and deep purple fabric, the royal crowns are symbolic of the British Royal Family and the Queen who wears them. But the story behind the rich colour used isn't nearly as glamorous as the final product and a whole lot fishier. Purple has been associated with royalty since antiquity, as far back as 1000BC.
admin | February 26, 2022
In 1972, Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair opened SARM Studios the first 24-track recording studio in Europe where Queen mixed Bohemian Rhapsody. His music publishing company, Druidcrest Music published the music for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973) and as a record producer, he co-produced the quadruple-platinum debut album by American band Foreigner (1976)
admin | February 26, 2022
Im 78 years old, and Im a budding, soon-to-be-produced playwright. To explain how this happened, we need to go back 16 years. Id like to think, Edward Albee said to me, that maybe Ive made people think about things a little bit.
admin | February 26, 2022
SCHENECTADY A week of bitter weather and wild winds made binge-watching an iconic TV series a tempting pastime. Congregation Gates of Heaven's Arnold Rotenberg, the synagogue's director of congregational Jewish living, hosted about two dozen "Star Trek" fans for a Zoom exploration of how Jewish culture shaped the 1966-69 series that became a pop culture phenomenon. "Star Trek" counted Martin Luther King Jr., Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and endless astronauts, astronomers and NASA engineers as fans.
admin | February 21, 2022
A page of Talmud. Photo: Chajm Guski/Wikimedia Recently, a new translation of the Jerusalem Talmud was made available on Sefaria, the free access web interactive platform for Jewish texts that was established a little over 10 years ago. The Babylonian Talmud, including Modern Hebrew and English translations by Rabbi Adin Steinsalz, was placed on Sefaria in 2017
admin | February 21, 2022
Lets start with a few scoops Kehoe Gets Police Endorsement for 2024 Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe secured another major endorsement for his 2024 campaign for governor.
admin | February 21, 2022
Russia and the United States (with NATO behind it) are eyeball to eyeball, and the world waits to see whether Vladimir Putin blinks, to borrow from Dean Rusks comment regarding the Soviet Union from 60 years ago, or whether he orders his military to invade Ukraine (which, as of this writing, he had not). Tensions are running high throughout the world because of it.
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