Culture
22/09/2020 - 12:06
When his friends came to visit, they would see him with one leg in a Hoffmann device and the other suspended from the ceiling,... →
23/08/2020 - 14:28
Now the small 16th-century spellbook containing 125 recipes is about to go on public display at the British Library as part of... →
13/06/2020 - 12:41
Some scholars argued that changing the society’s name would be a step against racism and sexism, specifically in how academics research and... →
01/02/2020 - 12:50
Among the selected winners, two works focused on antisemitism. Deborah Lipstadt won the Award in Education and Jewish Identity for her... →
19/11/2019 - 11:06
According to the researchers, strict church policies on marriage and family structure completely upended existing social norms and led to... →
26/09/2019 - 12:04
Another 1,500 years later – today – Zoroastrianism is a dying faith, its sacred flames tended by ever fewer worshippers.
We take it for... →
19/09/2019 - 16:41
I didn’t know other interfaith Jews growing up, so the first ones I met were through books. Specifically, Margaret in Are You There... →
20/08/2019 - 12:20
It’s not a wholly false perception, but the notion of China as a fortress state, impervious to foreign influence, is something of a... →
03/08/2019 - 19:21
Bauhaus and its variations are prominent among the 4,000 buildings which make up what is known as Tel Aviv’s White City, a UNESCO World... →
24/05/2019 - 14:15
Black cloak. Scythe. Skeletal grin. The Grim Reaper is the classic visage of death in Western society, but it's far from the only one.... →
15/04/2019 - 10:54
But one topic that generated much less attention was what language experts would call the socio-linguistic situation of Hebrew in America... →
10/03/2019 - 14:13
Israel's first spacecraft, launched last week in the first privately funded lunar mission, is carrying a small DVD disc containing the... →