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domingo, 27 de marzo de 2022

Can archaeologists find the Ark of the Covenant?

New book recounts an expedition's attempt to discover the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Hidden Ark in a real-life Indiana Jones expedition.
By HADASSAH FAUR

STEVEN SPIELBERG’S Ark of the Covenant from his iconic film ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ on display at Washington’s National Geographic Museum.   (photo credit: Mary Harrsch/Flickr)

“It was a city that was increasingly sprawling outside its Old City walls and a city that had a mixed and intermingling multi-faith population. A city with as many divisions within faiths as between them. A sacred city but by no means an entirely pious one,” writes Graham Addison about Jerusalem in the early 1900s, in his account of the Parker Expedition’s attempt to discover the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Hidden Ark.

sábado, 17 de abril de 2021

Steven Spielberg launches foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

Stephen Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the 2018 Arthur Miller Foundation Honors at City Winery in New York City, Oct. 22, 2018. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

(JTA) — Steven Spielberg has launched a film foundation called Jewish Story Partners to fund documentaries that “tell stories about a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories, and cultures.”

It’s funded by the Righteous Persons Foundation, which Spielberg and his actress wife Kate Capshaw founded after Spielberg’s experience making “Schindler’s List” in 1993. Two Jewish philanthropies — the Maimonides Fund and the Jim Joseph Foundation — also contributed funds. (Both organizations also help fund 70 Faces Media, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s parent company.)

“We are especially proud to help establish this initiative — which will make visible a fuller range of Jewish voices, identities, experiences, and perspectives — at a time

domingo, 9 de febrero de 2020

Cómo es Yad Vashem, el museo del Holocausto al que irán los líderes mundiales


Decenas, cientos, miles de pequeñas velas, que se encienden de manera alternada e iluminan el inmenso espacio a oscuras. Se escuchan entonces los nombres, la edad y el origen de más de un millón de niños y jóvenes que no pudieron llegar a ser adultos.

El Memorial de los Chicos es, tal vez, el sitio más impresionante y sobrecogedor del Museo del Holocausto Yad Vashem de Jerusalén, al que los lideres mundiales llegarán el jueves para participar del homenaje a las seis millones de víctimas judías del régimen nazi durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.