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Prof. Avi Loeb in his Harvard office. His computer wallpaper features a photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to our Sun. (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)
July 19, 2019, 8:57 pm
Israeli Harvard astronomer has an inalienable gravitation to interstellar study
On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Prof. Avi Loeb defiantly holds out hope that humanity will encounter other forms of life in the universe
By Rich Tenorio
Rabbi Benjamin Blech, author of 'Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death.' (Yeshiva University)
April 12, 2019, 10:54 pm
After a grim prognosis, this rabbi turned to Judaism for how to live with death
Eight years after being given months to live, Yeshiva University professor Benjamin Blech releases a new book on why people need not fear going gently into the good night
By Cathryn J. Prince
Clockwise, from upper left: Rebecca Gratz, Bella Abzug, (Public domain); Gloria Steinem (CC/SA/Gage Skidmore); Emma Goldman's police mug shot (Public domain).
February 27, 2019, 4:34 am
First-ever US Jewish herstory to hit stores ahead of International Women’s Day
Finding almost no women’s histories on shelves, professor and author Pamela Nadell compiled four centuries of the female Jewish experience in ‘America’s Jewish Women,’ out March 5
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Evelien Gans was one of the Netherlands’ foremost scholars on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Daniel Staal/via JTA)
August 15, 2018, 6:46 am
Before her suicide, Dutch Holocaust scholar saw deep threats to her life’s work
The life partner of Evelien Gans, who took her own life last month, notes her recent obsession with combating what she considered obfuscation and inversion of the Shoah
By Cnaan Liphshiz
British Jewish historian Bernard Lewis (YouTube screenshot)
From the WebMay 20, 2018, 11:31 am
Renowned British Jewish historian Bernard Lewis dead at 101
Lewis was considered one of the leading scholars on the Middle East and Islam, and is credited with shaping the West’s views on the region, the Washington Post reports
Prof. Steven Pinker receiving an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University. (Simon Fraser University)
April 21, 2018, 10:02 am
Political correctness is not in this best-selling pop-scientist’s vast lexicon
Prof. Steven Pinker has irked more than a few with his pull-no-punches tone and demand for hard data — but beneath the tough exterior lies an unapologetic optimist
By JP O’ Malley
Fulbright scholars McCall Wells, left, and Danielle Elliott are organizing an interfaith seder at the Universidad Camilo José Cela in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. (Melissa Marazas/via JTA)
March 30, 2018, 3:53 pm
American students organize a Spanish university’s first-ever Passover seder
Thousands of miles away from her Chicago home, Danielle Elliott is hosting a festive meal themed for freedom and human rights
By Margarita Gokun Silver
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