People around the world have interacted with the stories of the Torah almost exclusively through the written word. Without the aid of illustrations, readers have relied on the power of their imaginations to visualize the dramas that unfold throughout the Torah. Several years ago, Jewish-Chilean a...

In Loving Memory: On May, 24, 2022 an 18-year-old gunman texted a friend that he had shot his grandmother and was about to “shoot up” a school. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in a massacre that ripped open a nation’s deep divisions over gun violence.

Mexico City is the 5th largest city in the world with population of around approximately 22 million, which classifies Mexico city as a mega city. It is situated in the The Central Mexican Plateau, at 2,240m in elevation. Mexico city is also slowly sinking at a rate of about 10 inches per year! The ...

In this edition of "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," the World AIDS Museum (WAM) and Educational Center presents an up close and personal interview with Reverend Janis Lewis of the Mount Olive New Baptist Church in Ft Lauderdale, who has been working for the past 8 years as a missionary in Kenya, East...

Built in 1608, the Staircase of Santa Maria del Monte is a 142-step staircase in Caltagirone, Sicily made from thousands of ceramic tiles, one design per step, as a fitting tribute to a city known for its design and production of ceramics and terra-cotta sculptures. For centuries the stairs have bee...

In Loving Memory: President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde, mourning privately for three hours with anguished families of the 19 school children and two teachers killed by a gunman. Faced with chants of “do something” as he departed a church service, Biden pledged: “We wil

The Passing Years is a sneak pick at the transformation of several men and women personalities of the silver screen. A close look and comparison of how they look during their initial stages of their careers to current times. Includes Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland who turned 100 in 2017 and ...

Elvis Presley's love for Mexico took him to film several movies in different places in the country. In this movie clip from "Fun in Acapulco" where he plays Mie Windgren who works on a boat in Acapulco, Mexico in 1963. When Janie Harkins, the bratty daughter of the boat owner, gets him fired, Mike ...

Marcel Marceau saved at least 70 Jewish children from the Nazis through risky border crossings during World War II, and his cousin Georges Loinger saved 350. Marcel Marceau saved at least 70 Jewish children from the Nazis through risky border crossings during World War II, and his cousin Georges Loi...

From the time of Hernando Cortez's conquest until 1821, Mexico was a colony of Spain. Mexico fought for and gained its independence in the early 1800s. On Sept. 16, 1810, in the town of Dolores Hidalgo, the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church's bells and exorted the local Indians to "r...