Arthur Jacob Arshawsky 1910-2004 bio ripped/condensed from wikipedia: Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an
This being my first entry into this blog, I’ll leave off with political or otherwise personal stuff. Enough to point out that my day job
The U.S. government calls him a terrorist and accuses him of working for and funneling money to Hamas. He is under house arrest in Alexandria,
A serious-sounding disagreement has broken out between Israel’s Defense Ministry and the US Pentagon over Israel’s sale of Harpy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to China. Gideon
JPost reports, The Vatican newspaper has denounced what it called a decision by the IDF to deny emergency help to disaster victims in Sri Lanka.
As I am currently visiting Israel, I thought I should drop a JewSchool line… The other day I saw a photo exhibit in Tel Aviv’s
Jpost reports, The haredi-controlled Jerusalem municipality has rejected a proposal to bring a replica of Rodin’s The Thinker to Jerusalem due to ultra-orthodox opposition. “We
The Boston Globe reports, As a boy, the Rev. William Sanchez sensed that he was different. His Catholic family spun tops on Christmas, shunned pork,
JPost reports, Charles Dickens may have amended his classic Oliver Twist in response to a complaint that his depiction of Fagin, the book’s villain, was
The Forward reports, B’nai B’rith International, a 161-year-old nonprofit organization and charity, is hardly known as a hip haven through which the new generation can