Click Here to Read: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes the world’s tallest church By Joseph Wilson on the AP News Website on October 30, 2025.
Sagrada Familia in Barcelona Spain. Image: Peter_Glyn Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera
Click Here to Read: At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera. To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews By Andrew Silow-Carroll on the Jewish Telegraph website on September 17, 2025.
Ben Kweller’s New Album Is a Complex and Jewish Exploration of Grief
“National treasures” worth $11 million stolen from museum in France
10-year-old chess prodigy makes history with win over 60-year-old grandmaster
A century ago, there was a race to make the first color photos. Now there’s a race to save them.
Click Here to Read: A century ago, there was a race to make the first color photos. Now there’s a race to save them. The revolutionary invention of autochromes changed photography. As those pictures decay, they’re revealing a new kind of beauty By Katy Kelleher in the National Geographic on July 21, 2025.
Early color photo of Agen, France, by Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1877. The cathedral in the scene is the Cathédrale Saint-Caprais d’Agen. Image: Louis Ducos du Hauron (1837 – 1920). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
