12 ideas for a “nation of smart people”

  Two authors - an American investor and an Israeli journalist - armed themselves with a voice recorder, a calculator, a notepad and a pen and set off on a journey through business Israel to find out the nature of the wealth of the poor land. They produced a scientific and educational work, A Nation of Smart People. President of electronic payment...

Jewish mom: aphorisms for psychoanalyst

  Everyone says, Jewish mother, Jewish mother. And they retell to each other (for free) and to their psychoanalysts (for bloody rubles) the terrible things that their Jewish mother told them, ah-ah. So, here we specifically conducted a survey among some Jewish mothers...

Jerusalem - Tel Aviv: two cities - two worlds

At the beginning of June, the International Forum “Jerusalem - Tel Aviv: two cities - two worlds” was held in Moscow and St. Petersburg - the first event of this scale. Over the course of two days, heads of hotel associations and heads of departments of the city municipalities of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv presented tourism opportunities...

Everyday circumstances with extraordinary people

Mark Bernes, Faina Ranevskaya and others These famous theater and film actors have long passed away. But they, undoubtedly, remained in the memory of many today. I happened to meet some of them in the most ordinary circumstances. With Mark Bernes, I ...

British Jew who changed the world of hairstyles and beauty

In the 60s and 70s of the last century, in Moscow and Leningrad, I was always delighted with new, fashionably dressed girls and women with unusual hairstyles. It seemed that the poetess Veronika Tushnova wrote about them: “On Gorky Street - what a walk! Girl ...

Do Americans have to stand in line to the doctors

Dr. Branovan discusses US health care reform The US Supreme Court has decided to consider an appeal against the health care reform initiated by President Obama. I turned to the well-known in our community doctor Igor Branovan, a graduate of Stanford University Medical School and Faculty ...

Election-2012 in the USA: a deal for Obama and Romney

  After winning the “primaries” in Texas on May 29, Mitt Romney became the de facto presidential candidate of the Republican Party, having secured the support of the required number of delegates to the future party convention. The progress of the election campaign is analyzed for Radio Liberty by international observers from Radio Liberty...

Dove of Peace with a Black Wing, or the Double Life of Professor Martin Gross

Professor Martin Gross is a busy man. In the morning, he lectures to the students of the Faculty of Dentistry of Tel Aviv University, in the afternoon he receives patients in the dental clinic and looks forward to the evening to lock himself in his home office and immerse his hands (fingers - ...

C victory, Light!

Congratulations to the creators of the film "Code of Life: Theresienstadt Resort" with a victory at the International Film Festival in Houston (USA) - "Special Jury Prize"! Forum editorial staff It seemed that we had just recently talked with the famous singer Svetlana Portnyanskaya about her unexpected work as a documentary film producer ...

Genius from the Belarusian town

In memory of the physicist Efim Samoilovich Fradkin Dedicated to Rimma Mikhailovna Fradkina, who preserved her husband's invaluable archive, thanks to which this essay became possible. On May 24, 1999, after a serious illness, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the XNUMXth century, Efim Samoilovich Fradkin, passed away. His works…

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