Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on November 22, 2015, the 100th anniversary. Is any name more synonymous with Jewish genius than Albert Einstein? By speaking out against anti-Semitism and lending his brand to institutions like the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Einstein became a standard-bearer for the Diaspora. As a prominent booster of…
Albert Einstein once said that there are only two things that might be infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And, he confessed, he wasn’t sure about the universe. When we hear that, we chuckle. Or at least we smile. We do not take offense. The reason is that the name “Einstein” conjures an image of…
Is any name more synonymous with Jewish genius than Albert Einstein? By speaking out against anti-Semitism and lending his brand to institutions like the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Einstein became a standard-bearer for the Diaspora. As a prominent booster of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a star fundraiser for the Zionist cause, he…
A bit taller than average height. A thin figure. Not too skinny. Not rail thin. A gentle one. A thoughtful face wrinkled from thinking and an artistic sensibility. A pair of deep blue eyes. A silvery moustache and wavy black-and-white silk hair covering a large expansive forehead — that’s what Professor Einstein looks like. He…
When Albert Einstein visited British Mandate Palestine in 1921, he was impressed by Jewish enterprise in construction and agriculture. But he had harsh words for ultra-Orthodox Jews he spotted praying at the Western Wall, calling them “dull-witted clansmen of our tribe.” Sixty years after Einstein’s death, the German physicist could have never predicted that an…
October 27, 1946 Princeton, New Jersey, is a town of 8,000 residents currently celebrating, along with the entire world, the 200th birthday of its famous university. Woodrow Wilson, tragic dreamer of the first League of Nations, was president of Princeton University prior to becoming president of the United States. Today another dreamer lives there. On…
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