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Company Seeks To Make Israel Third Country To Land On The Moon

(JNS.org) — SpaceIL, an Israeli non-profit comprised of a team of scientists and space enthusiasts, is aiming to make Israel the third country, behind the U.S. and Russia, to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. As part of Google’s Lunar X Prize competition, SpaceIL intends for its spacecraft to be as small as possible, […]

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Serving Children With Special Needs

I praise Ilana Ruskay-Kidd for starting a special-needs pluralistic Jewish day school (“Kids With Special Needs To Get NY School Of Their Own,” Jan. 18). I, myself, am deaf and I attended Hebrew Institute for the Deaf in Brooklyn. It is no longer operating because many children with hearing impairments are able to mainstream in […]

Rabbi Shlomo Brevda, Ethics Expert, Dies At 81

Rabbi Shlomo Brevda, a teacher and author whose inspirational lectures drew capacity crowds in the United States and Israel for several decades, died on Jan. 8 in Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn after a long illness. He was 81. An authority on the writings of the 18th-Century Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Brevda was the author of […]

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Mayor Koch’s Day At YU

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