Travel and Food

When someone came to the Tzemach Tzedek, the third Lubavitcher rebbe, for a blessing, the rebbe said, “Think positive and it will be positive.” This week our lesson in living optimally, comes from Shemot. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]

Magen David Adom’s groundbreaking technology, which powers the emergency dispatching systems in Israel for medical emergencies and the National Fire Rescue Service as well as for the EMS system in the Philippines, is now being used in the United States too. The computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system developed by Magen David Adom, Israel’s national paramedic and Red Cross service, uses artificial intelligence to instantly locate and dispatch the nearest first responders and ambulances to a medical emergency.  [Magen David Adom]

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on Tuesday called on President Vincent Price to formally recognize the Duke chapter of Students Supporting Israel.  According to the Brandeis Center, formal recognition is the “only way to ensure the University’s compliance” with federal law.[Louis D. Brandeis Center]

Published by BANG Showbiz English Elon Musk wants to bring animals and humans to Mars “like a futuristic Noah’s ark”. The 50-year-old billionaire entrepreneur’s dream is to reach the Red Planet via spacecraft and ultimately create an intergalactic “self-sustaining city”. In order to fulfil his vision, Musk believes he needs to bring animals into outer

The pomegranate pendant of the title was fashioned in gold as a wedding gift for Mazal, a fourteen-year-old Yemenite girl who is the narrator of the book. The events she recounts begin in the capital of Yemen, Sana’a, in the modest home where she lives with her parents and siblings. Her father, a skilled artisan who fashions the intricate filigree jewelry that is produced by many of Yemen’s Jews, informs his daughter that his apprentice, Ezra, has asked for her hand in marriage, and that he, her father, had given his approval. The pendant was made by Ezra, as a gift for his bride. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

StandWithUs strongly condemns the overtly antisemitic speeches given by Zahra Billoo and Nihad Awad, two senior officials at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The speeches took place at the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Annual Conference in Chicago on November 27, 2021. Both AMP and CAIR have a long and growing record of actions and rhetoric that meet the internationally accepted IHRA Definition of Antisemitism. [StandWithUs]

This is a powerful book, a disguised memoir in the form of a novel, about a man who fought and loved fiercely, and the impact he had on the lives of his three sons.  It seems obvious from the brief biographical sketch of author Stuart Z. Goldstein at the end of the book that he is the model for Zachary, Son Number Two of the fictitious Murray Goldman, who boxed under the name of “Moe Fields.” [Donald H. Harrison]