Filter Fish – At Life’s End, Rediscovering the Joys of a Childhood Favorite – Oliver Sacks, neurologist and best-selling author, passed away on August 30th. He writes of his early love of his mother’s gefilte fish, the caretaker who learned to make it for him many years later, and how, at the end of his life, […]
Two days after Yom Kippur on, Friday, September 25th, Sony Pictures’s Hotel Transylvania 2 will premiere in movie theaters around the world. The first Hotel Transylvania had a star studded cast and was nominated for a Golden Globe. HT2 also boasts some serious Hollywood talent, including: Mel Brooks, Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, David Space, Steve Buscemi, and Selena Gomez. […]
Students of Baltimore’s Bnos Yisroel Help Defy Stereotypes – A group of 20 “ultra-Orthodox” teen girls spent the summer interning at the world’s premier institution of health research. They quite literally wore their faith on their sleeves, and left quite an impression Refugee Crisis: ‘Love the Stranger Because You Were Once Strangers’ Calls Us Now – Rabbi […]
The Time an 11-Year-Old Took Down Nadal – One of our 2014 All Stars, Estee Ackerman, is highlighted in this NY Times article about how she beat Rafael Nadal – the professional tennis player ranked #8 in the world – at table tennis Jacob Bekenstein, Physicist Who Revolutionized Theory of Black Holes, Dies at 68 – […]
Prominent US-Based Haredi Rabbis Declare Obligation to Report Child Abuse to Police – The letter addresses the need to prevent and eradicate the epidemic of child abuse in the Jewish community, and was signed by over 100 Rabbis (several of these Rabbis are the very same we reached out to, to support the halachic prenup and help prevent agunos) […]
Oliver Sacks: Sabbath – A homosexual doctor discusses his early love of Shabbos, how he lost it…and how he got it back. The article also recounts the moving way our 2013 Orthodox Jewish All Star, Nobel Laureate, Robert Aumman, treated his gay cousin Rabbi Harizy’s Man Camp – Read how the Rabbi helps people “get married and […]
