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Good Tuesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Len Blavatnik’s response to Jonathan Glazer’s controversial Oscars speech and examine the emergence of a macabre “tragedy tourism” to devastated Israeli communities. We feature an opinion piece by Yotam Polizer reflecting on IsraAid’s first-ever domestic...

Jewish ideas on burial and mourning, Holocaust education and Jewish-Latin culture make it on the bill for the Texas gathering

“The bad behavior of some extremists at the Chabad in Crown Heights should have been a local news issue at most,” wrote the journalist Yashar Ali.The post ‘Explosion’ of conspiracy

How a rabbi accidentally went viral in a two-minute Twitter video, and why his quotes continue to resurface.

Duolingo just added a Yiddish course. Could you plotz? CNET 3 days ago Ed Begley Jr. gets the schpilkes in Christoper Guest comedy A Mighty Wind.  Popular language-learning platform Duolingo  rolled out a Yiddish course for English speakers this week, and Im kvelling.  The course, which debuted April 6, guides students through speaking, reading and writing the richly expressive language that originated with Jews in Central and Eastern Europe and served as their lingua franca for centuries...

Last week’s landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on the Martian surface reminds us of how life on Mars has long been an object of fascination here on Earth, from ancient times through David Bowie up until today. The Perseverance mission is just the latest to explore whether or not conditions in the Martian past or future could support human life. The SUV-sized Perseverance is not alone on Mars. There are currently 11 spacecraft visiting the red planet — more than enough for a minyan — i...