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Reception in Honor of the President of Austria

We were delighted to host a festive cocktail party in honor of Mr. Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria, who came with his wife, the Austrian minister for digital and economic issues; Martha Schultz, vice president of the Austrian chamber of commerce; Martin Weiss, ambassador of Austria in Israel, Talya Ledor Presher; and 200 Austrian and Israeli businesspersons. This visit expresses the long ongoing cooperation between Austria and Israel, that included a gift from the Austrian government – a model of the “Turnertemple” in Vienna, that was destroyed on Kristallnacht. The model will be displayed in the new core exhibition,[]

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הארווי וחוקר אורח עם הצנצנות בביתו של הפתולוג. מתוך "Relics: Einstein's Brain", BBC

Relatively Normal: The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain and Preserved It for 40 Years in a Jar

Many of us spend significant time on trains every day traveling to the office and back. Some devote their train time to working, others to putting out bureaucratic fires, and the rest leaf through the daily papers or take a brief nap. But how many people do you know who exploit their time on the train to contemplate the concept of “time” itself? In 1905, Albert Einstein worked in the government patent office in Bern, Switzerland. He traveled to and from the office by train. There, he said, he conducted imaginary experiments in his head, in which he examined how[]

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המלך קרול הראשון, אחיינו פרדיננד וקרול השני בן ה-12. 1905

The Apothecary’s Daughter Who Swept Romania’s King off His Feet

The guide to “how an entitled man should behave” recommends – particularly in the #MeToo Era – that he refrain from publicly remarking that Jane Doe’s legs rouse his libido. That is to say, he can do it, but he has to also be prepared to eulogize his career. In the past, men of status took pride in their attraction to women’s feminine lower limbs. Napoleon Bonaparte declared when he first saw Josephine walking in the palace antechamber that her legs caused him to fall head-over-heels in love. Titus, the military commander who destroyed the Second Temple – they say[]

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תמונה משפחתית בחגיגת בר מצוה, דמשק, סוריה 1930 בקירוב. (בית התפוצות, המרכז לתיעוד חזותי ע"ש אוסטר, באדיבות אברהם פאוזי ופני מזרחי)

Matza in Damascus: The Middle East’s Blood Libel

A bizarre phenomenon took place in Europe during the months of Spring. People claimed during that time of year that a significant number of people had disappeared from the face of the earth. Rigorous investigations – based mainly on the work of advanced medieval Identification and Forensic Science divisions – determined that those missing persons fell prey to a dark Jewish ritual. That liters of gentile blood had been extracted from the victims’ bodies with which to bake matza. What else could it be. Historians crossed swords over when and where the first blood libel in history occurred. In Norwich[]

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אודסה, 1910 (בית התפוצות, המרכז לתיעוד חזותי ע"ש אוסטר, באדיבות ייבגני ירושביץ, ישראל)

Odessa’s Damon Runyon, Russia’s Jewish, People’s Poet – and I

It was the same old story every weekend. On our way home from Shabbat dinner at my sister’s house in Haifa’s Ahuza neighborhood, my grandfather – may he rest in peace – would stop in a tiny alley to bow down at length to a street sign. This peculiar ritual took many seconds to complete, before my grandfather continued on his way as if nothing had happened. When in first grade the shapes of letters began to make sense to me, I read the sign for the first time: “Isaac Babel, Jewish-Russian writer.” Not long after that, my grandfather presented[]

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