Click Here to Read: Drought reveals 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas: Prints mostly left by a creature that stood 15 feet tall, weighed 7 tons and roamed the area 113 million years ago have emerged as the Paluxy River has disappeared By Tim Stelloh on the NBC News website on Aug. 23, 2022.
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of North America. Image: DiBgd Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Groundbreaking album breathes new life into nearly abandoned Jewish musical art: Jeremiah Lockwood sought to revive the early 20th century style of cantorial music; he found unexpected partners in the Brooklyn Hasidic community By Zach Golden on the Forward website on August 11, 2022.
The long and complicated history of Jews in Ukraine was not always a happy one, but it would be a mistake to think of it as an unmitigated series of upheavals. To the contrary, the region gave rise to some of the greatest achievements of Jewish literature and culture, as the collections of the Yiddish Book Center bear witness. As exhibit A, you can listen to this program of readings and songs from Yiddish works in translation by Yiddish writers from Ukraine including Blume Lempel, Mendel Osherowitz, Dora Shulner, and Sholem Aleichem.
View our map of Yiddish writers who were born or lived or worked in Ukraine
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Click Here to Read: Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky Edited by
Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet.
Building of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw viewed from Karmelicka Street Image: Wojciech Kryński. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Conversation Analysis – A Powerful Tool for Psychoanalytic Practice and Psychotherapy Research by Michael B. Buchholz & Horst Kächele.
Discourse into the Night, Two learned robed, bearded and barefoot gentlemen converse, books in their lap. Blades, William: “Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges” (1891). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter: In a new experiment, researchers looked for tiny flickers in the fundamental constants of nature on the Wired website on August 2, 2022.
Dark Matter. Image: https://www.instagram.com/p/CG8Q7DwleJF/ Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
