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“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…..Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist” ― Stephen Hawking

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“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…..Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist” ― Stephen Hawking

The Responsible Adult

My husband woke me up to tell me he had a dream.  He dreamt that someone knocked at the door and when he opened, he found standing there 2 sisters of a close friend of ours.  I told him it could not be, since our friend has a sister and a brother.  His response was “Well, you can’t trust dreams any more.” …

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Seeds of Hope

Little did I know when I wrote last time about refugees that less than two weeks later we would be facing a new and unprecedented refugee situation…

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Refugees

The front page of the New York Times again features refugees. Children looking out the window of a van, with big frightened eyes, with no curiosity, only pain. How many more times do we need to see these pictures, how many times have we seen the same eyes looking at us, as if saying “do not avert your eyes, you were us, you could again be us.” …

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Geodesic Dome

The concept of a geodesic dome and its contribution to 20th-century architecture was attributed to Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)…

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Musically Speaking

Karola Siegel was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1928, an only child to middle-class Orthodox Jewish parents.  She describes her childhood as happy with a lot of friends both from the Jewish school and from the gentile neighbors…

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New Year and Novigod (Новый Год)

While most Israelis now recognize the Russian Novigod holiday, over 70% still do not see it as part of Israeli culture. The large number of people who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union now constitute roughly 20% of the population.

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