Jonathan Levi: Well, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and he made it back. Did it mean if you study a lot? I mean, there's a lot of people from the Holy text who happened to have been incarcerated at some point in time. And so I'm not that I compare myself to an...
Yup. I am not a fan of birthday cake. I am, however, a huge fan of pie. So every year, I make myself a Strawberry Rhubarb Birthday Pie. This is my favorite pie, and was the subject of one of my early blog posts which you can read here. So enjoy your cake, pie or ...
Picture in Focus: The Flight into Egypt by Lyuba Yatskiv December 1, 2024 There was no question what my choice of a subject would be this year for the Advent and Christmas seasons, given the bitter and defamatory debate over "illegal aliens" during the election campaign. Beginning this Sund...
on using only the best cashmere painstakingly produced in one of the most barren parts of China. The cashmere is hand combed from the under fleece of the Mongolian goat and one of them produces in a year only enough yarn to make a scarf. It takes three goats to produce one simple ...
On April 14 of this year I put my old dog down. She was almost fourteen years old, ancient for a Saint Bernard. She wasn’t able to get up to walk around anymore. When I woke up to her crying in the living room, having slipped and fallen down on the one hardwood spot that we ...
The structure has four towers (one for each season of the year), seven terraces (one for each day of the week), 12 hallways, 52 rooms (the number of weeks in a year) and 365 windows (the number of days in a year). The modernist "Dada" movement (Dadaism) of the 1920s was co-...
Arrhenius found that CO2, and other gases trap radiation,which warms the atmosphere.Arrhenius was the first to suspect that burning coal could contribute to the greenhouse effect.But Arrhenius welcomed the warming effect on the planet.At a lecture later that year,Arrhenius noted that creatures of...
Q: A year ago, around Christmastime, the city of Aleppo was besieged, bombed and then evacuated.What are your memories of those days? A: I still perfectly remember everything that happened. The insane bombardment of the Assad regime and the Russians struck the city with weapons, even ones...
Well, she was not only the Queen of Egypt but Queen of Everything. In the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater I would wander among the hands and footprints of my personal Gods and Goddesses. At ten my hands fit into Shirley Temple’s hand prints. By twenty they fit perfectly with ...
41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and you gave me not to drink. ...