Eduard Dolinsky has a youthful face and composed expression that belie his intense responsibilities. As the executive director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, the main representative body of Ukrainian Jewry, Dolinsky is on the front lines of the Jewish community’s battle against the Svoboda party, a far-right nationalist faction that is widely perceived as anti-Semitic. Continue reading
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Earth’s core far hotter than thought
New measurements suggest the Earth’s inner core is far hotter than prior experiments suggested, putting it at 6,000C – as hot as the Sun’s surface. Continue reading
Military grooms new officers for war in cyberspace
The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation’s military and civilian computer networks that control everything from electrical power grids to the banking system. Continue reading
Land of the Seven Churches: Ephesus
Weekend Interviews – Apr 20, 2013
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PTTV – Romans: The Letter that Changed the World Part 6
At evangelical colleges, a shifting attitude toward gay students
Combing through prayer requests in a Wheaton College chapel in 2010, then-junior Benjamin Matthews decided to do something “absurdly unsafe.” Continue reading
How an unwieldy romantic poem and a Romanian folk song combined to produce ‘Hatikva’
Romanian oxen and a chronic alcoholic are not the likeliest progenitors of the Israeli national anthem. But that’s “Hatikva” for you. Continue reading
Palestinians building museum to tell their story
Palestinians on Thursday began construction of the West Bank’s largest museum devoted to their history, planning to tell diverse stories of Palestinians in their land and of millions who live abroad. Continue reading