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Director Kemp Powers mentioned that the filmmakers managed to get this moment in "the 11th hour."

स्थानान्तरण कि बसाइसराइ (सम्पादकीय)    शेयर गर्नुहोस: भौगोलिक, पर्यावरणीय तथा सांस्कृतिक दृष्टिले नेपाललाई मोटामोटी तीन भागमा विभाजन गर्ने गरिएको छ– हिमाल, पहाड, तराई–मधेस । य�...

At the start of the pandemic, the Jewish Initiative for Animals urged our community to consider the well-established links between industrial animal production and pandemic risk. The way we raise both kosher and non-kosher animals for food, especially chickens, poses a consistent and growing threat to our public health. Even the seemingly wild origins of pathogens that spur virus outbreaks often trace back to agricultural encroachment that has disrupted wildlife patterns. Preventing the next pa...

I dont know the solution to this conflict. I do, however know this: Arab-Jewish love may be the only thing with the hope to effect change.

May 21, 2021 We will soon mark the first anniversary of George Floyd’s murder — by no means the first time a Black man has been killed by police, but a moment when many of us protested in the streets and pledged to hold ourselves and our leaders accountable. Now that a year has passed, those of us who are white Ashkenazi Jews face the question: What are the ongoing actions that white people must take to contribute to racial equity? Educational leader and podcast host Antonio Saunders calls ...

April 29, 2021 It’s the morning of my first vaccine and I double mask and jump in the subway to head to my appointment at Harlem Hospital. I get out of the subway and make a wrong turn, which leads to another wrong turn and worries that I will be late. I start to run, panting under my masks and fogging my glasses, but arrive just in time for a lovely nurse with sky-blue fingernails to give me my injection. Image by iStock I have been so focused on making and getting to this appointment that I...

When learning a foreign language, everyone has a moment when they first realize that what they just said makes no sense, because they literally translated something that doesn’t translate literally. I recently went out with an Israeli woman who insisted on speaking English with me even though she barely speaks English. I asked her how she was and she told me she was “on her face.” I had to explain to her that “ al hapanim” (“things are crappy”) is a Hebrew idiom that doesn’t wor...