I am an interfaith hospice chaplain who on average handles 20 deaths every week; at times I manage 40. This number may sound staggering but it’s not. As people age and society understands death, more people will choose to die with the dignity of hospice. The career of a chaplain is not one of the […]
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Amy Dell grew up in the restaurant industry and is still deli-adjacent. Her father, who is from Israel, owned Mr. Broadway kosher restaurant in New York City. Her husband, Jake, is the third-generation owner of Katz’ Deli. “When my husband and my father met, one of the first questions my father asked my husband was, […]
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Israel High Tech Scene April 26 – May 2 New Startups / VC FundingLightrun Secures $70M Series B to Lead Developer Observability Market and Expand in Financial SectorIsraeli startup Lightrun, a leading platform in Developer Observability, has announced the closing of a $70 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $110 million. […]
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A bipartisan group of 23 Congressmembers wrote a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the San Francisco-based nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia, on April 30 expressing “our deep concern regarding antisemitism, anti-Israel bias, and the potential abuse of Wikipedia by coordinated actors.” The letter, written by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) was […]
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This week we celebrate modern-day Israel’s 77th Independence Day. On Hanukkah 1948, when Israel was 7 months old, it was fresh out of a War of Independence that claimed 6,500 lives, one percent of Israel’s population. The heroes who defended Israel were our modern-day Maccabees, the men and women of the newly established Israel Defense […]
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This is the sermon I gave in the Krakow synagogue to a congregation mostly of teens in Poland for March of the Living, who walked the previous day from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Shhhh. Shhhhhh. In the Torah portion we read this Shabbat, when Aaron’s sons die, the Torah gives us two words — vayidom Aharon. […]
Continue ReadingAs Israel prepares to celebrate its 77th Independence Day, new figures released show the country’s population has surpassed 10 million for the first time, marking a major demographic milestone in the nation’s history. The State of Israel was established at the moment of the end of the British Mandate, om May 15, 1948. However, the […]
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A groundbreaking international study led by Flinders University reveals significant cultural differences in body appreciation and eating behaviors among young women from Middle Eastern and Western societies. The findings, published in the journal Body Image, underscore how family dynamics and cultural norms shape the way young women perceive their bodies and manage eating habits. The […]
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Researchers from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are advancing the search for water ice on the Moon, a potential game-changing resource for future lunar missions. Using cutting-edge technology, scientists are working to determine the location and quantity of ice present in the Moon’s permanently shadowed polar regions—areas that never receive direct sunlight. Water ice […]
Continue ReadingA one-of-a-kind stone capital, unlike any ever discovered worldwide, will be unveiled to the public for the first time during Israel’s Independence Day celebrations at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel in Jerusalem. This remarkable artifact, carved from limestone and adorned with an eight-branched lamp, dates back over 1,500 […]
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