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Nike Zoom Soldier 8 with FlyEase technology. (YouTube)

Samantha Rush Soclof

Not just for those with disabilities

The keyboard, telephone, internet, and even Siri all started out as tools of accessibility

Palestinians and Israelis in dialogue at the Roots Center in the West Bank. (Courtesy of Roots)

Ron Kronish

Peace activisim in the West Bank

How meeting with 'the other' is changing the lives of people on both sides

Jakob Ella Jewelry disc pendant necklace with Holocaust number. (Courtesy of Jakob Ella Jewelry)

Varda Spiegel

Would you wear a Holocaust number around your neck?

How to transmit historical memory is not just a matter for the children and grandchildren of Shoah survivors

Head of the opposition Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni speaks at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on August 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Harry Reis

Mr. Lauder, you break it, you bought it

Since you helped fund Netanyahu's political career, how about putting your money where your mouth is to help fix things

Lyn Julius

The archive is a clear case of brazen theft

Iraqi Jews are protesting against the repatriation of an archive that they say has no place in Iraq

A picture taken on July 20, 2018 shows a fireball exploding in Gaza City during Israeli bombardment. (AFP Photo / Bashar Taleb)

Yossi Kuperwasser

Does Israel have a strategy for Gaza?

Spoiler Alert: Contrary to what everyone thinks, Israel has a strategy regarding Gaza, at least for the short and medium term

Illustrative: Moving out. (iStock)

Stefanie Weisman

4 things to do before heading off to college

You can make the transition meaningful if you don't get lost in the textbooks and bed sheet sizes

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Aug 21, 2018, 6:00 AM

Looking beyond the instant to find happiness

Where the Happiest People Live A new study surveying 20,000 young people from 20 different countries reveals a fascinating trend when it comes to people’s level of happiness. The study, conducted by the Varkey Foundation, called “Generation Z: Global Citizenship...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 21, 2018, 5:58 AM

Torah’s galaxy worlds formation from beginning to end

At the beginning of the creation of our universe there were zero atoms of matter; only subatomic particles of quark/gluons that turned into protons and neutrons in the first fraction of a second, long before becoming atoms (tohu and...

Aug 21, 2018, 12:11 AM

How Can You Job Hunt and Interview for Jobs In Israel?

In today’s global and technologically advanced society, finding a job is not easy, no matter where in the world you may be living in. The adage you have probably heard time and time again “it’s not what you know...

Nesanel Yoel Safran

Aug 21, 2018, 12:10 AM

Fake News: Fact or Fallacy?

The terms ‘fake news’ and ‘fake news media’ have themselves been very in the news as of late. A gamut of major media outlets have understandably taken uber-umbrage at these terms and all that they imply. Recently 100 or more...

Elliot Eisenberg

Aug 21, 2018, 12:06 AM

Reform Judaism: Religion or Political Movement?

Is Reform Judaism a religion or a political movement? That question was provoked recently on reading the Reform Judaism blog entitled, “Election Days are Jewish Holidays,” by Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, spiritual leader at Temple Shaarey Tefila in New York. The...

James R. Russell

Aug 21, 2018, 12:03 AM

From 5700 to 5778, at 770

It's like this: R. Kalonymos Kalman Epstein of Krakow, who was born in 1753, the same year King's College (later to be renamed Columbia) was founded in New York City, wrote a Hasidic Torah commentary, Maor va-Shemesh. It was...

Bonnie K. Goodman

Aug 20, 2018, 11:46 PM

Wanted nice and normal Jewish man, do they even exist?

My open call to matchmakers to go beyond the stereotypes they created and help me find one Dating in your 30s is a nightmare, Jewish dating is worse, and a Jewish woman in her mid-30s looking for a husband is...

Anastasia Mechan Zachariah

Aug 20, 2018, 11:25 PM

A woman who dares: Flatbush girl

When someone says the words, “Orthodox Jewish Woman”, some to most people imagine a submissive woman. An individual dedicated to her home, trained to put her husband and children before herself. A glorified housekeeper that usually wears dark clothes,...

Aug 20, 2018, 11:07 PM

Parshat Ki Teitzei: King Henry VIII and the Talmud

Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Did you know that King Henry VIII purchased a copy of the newly printed Talmud when he wanted to escape his marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon. What makes this even more remarkable is that there were...

Aug 20, 2018, 10:38 PM

Left Unsaid — a Cardinal Error

" The one rightful , reasonable, simple and compulsive lever we held and , if you will, still hold, was a sincere readiness to resign the mission, to lay our Mandate at the feet of the United Nations Organization,...

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