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Jewish biography: Savielly Tartakower, rootless chess grandmaster
21+ hour, 14+ min ago (604+ words) By Alex Gordon in Haifa, Israel On February 21, 1887, Savielly Tartakower was born in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. He was not a subject of the Russian Empire, as his parents were subjects of Austria-Hungary. They were Jews fleeing from…...
Teshuvah is one skill that separates humans from animals – San Diego Jewish World
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (701+ words) By Cailin Acosta in San Diego With Rosh Hashanah approaching, Brandon Fisher’s “The Four Elements of Teshuvah” series at Beth Jacob Congregation began with a deceptively simple question: What does it mean to be human? To explore that question, Fisher…...
Jewish biography: Ernst Boris Chain, Nobel Prize winner for developing penicillin into a medicine
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (660+ words) By Alex Gordon in Haifa, Israel Chain’s mother was Margarita Eisner, the sister of Kurt Eisner, a well-known German Social Democrat and prime minister of the defeated Bavarian Soviet Republic, who was assassinated by a nationalist on February 21, 1919, in Munich....
‘Shalom Bayit’ doesn’t ask you to be perfect
1+ week, 1+ day ago (385+ words) By Jené Verchick in Los Angeles We have a beautiful phrase in our tradition: shalom bayit, peace in the home. It is worth protecting. But many couples turn it into something it was never meant to be. They think it…...
Author writes convincingly of Nazis vs. movie moguls
2+ week, 1+ day ago (225+ words) Hollywood vs. Nazis: How the Movie Studios Took on Nazis Infiltrating Los Angeles by Michael Benson; Citadel Press Books; © 2026; ISBN 9780806-544809; 263 pages; plus epilogue and sources; $29. By Cailin Acosta in La Mesa, California A little-known chapter of American history comes to…...
Do highly creative people organize information differently from the rest of us?
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (300+ words) By Jacob Kamaras in La Jolla, California Southern California native Eliana Waghalter is spending her summer conducting research in Israel as one of 24 undergraduate students from the U.S. and U.K. who reflect Bar-Ilan University’s work to cultivate the next generation of scientific…...
Otto Stern, German-American Nobel laureate in physics
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (353+ words) By Alex Gordon in Haifa, Israel After the final exam in 1906, Stern completed 12 semesters of physical chemistry at the University of Breslau. Being financially independent due to his parents’ wealth, he spent several years studying natural sciences under the guidance…...
???Much Ado About Nothing??? is really something!
2+ week, 1+ day ago (11+ words) ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is really something! San Diego Jewish World...
Interpreting and analyzing the five megillot
2+ week, 2+ day ago (472+ words) By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel in Chula Vista, California The result is not a verse-by-verse commentary but a series of focused probes that refuse the false choice between classical rabbinic midrash and modern literary-critical methods. Angel’s signature “literary-theological” approach…...
Israel develops wildfire-fighting drones
2+ week, 3+ day ago (300+ words) The project recently completed its first successful flight test, marking an important milestone in the development of a system that could significantly improve emergency response by providing real-time detection and precise localization of fire outbreaks, particularly in large, remote, or…...