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 - ...

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 ...

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…

Lag ba-Omer is a very special day, which differs sharply from other days of the Omer counting period. Lag - that is, the letters "lamed" and "gimel" - is the designation of the number "33". Lag ba-Omer - the thirty-third day of the Omer, 18 Iyar. Tradition says that in ...

In the letters of admirals, commanders and colleagues of Glory, the words "duty", "feat" and "patriotism" are mentioned many times. What do these words mean? Ending. Start at # 390 ... The first four and a half hours went according to plan. For pilots, the most important part of the mission is ...

Conversation with not indifferent people - I was not going to be the director of the school, - Leonid Bard and I stunned me from the first phrase of p. Asher Altshul, when in the office of the headmaster of Elite Jewish High School in Brooklyn we started talking about Jewish ...

On Saturday, at the American base of Guantanamo in Cuba, the trial of the 9-11 terrorist attacks began. The defendants tried to do everything to disrupt the first hearing of the military tribunal. In total, there were five terrorists in the dock, led by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By…

  Israel made unprecedented concessions to the US administration and for the first time agreed to legalize the Iranian atomic program in any form in exchange for "tough guarantees" from Washington to put Tehran before a choice between this plan and the prospect of a full-scale military clash with the United States and ...

We met Valery Bazarov, the hero of this interview, on the eve of his 70th birthday. The work of Valery, the author of wonderful articles in the "Forverts - Forum" of different years, an expert on Jewish genealogy, a person devoted to the Jewish cause, who found and connected dozens of people scattered around the world, is loved and ...

He was 16 years old when the war began. Together with his parents, he fled from a Moldovan Jewish town to the East. They fell under the Germans, and only a miracle saved them from being shot. (The story is kept in Steven Spielberg's Holocaust Evidence Archive.) The family turned out to be ...