Israel's Bar-Ilan University Honors Pope Francis at Vatican Ceremony
Pope Francis received a major honor at the Vatican this week—from an Israeli university. Bar-Ilan University’s president offered the Pope the Tel Aviv institution’s highest honor, the Award of...
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I have a Ph.D. Here’s how I got it: I completed my bachelor’s degree, then my master’s, and then enrolled in a doctoral program and met all of its requirements. This may sound obvious. It’s not, at...
View ArticleIsrael’s First Ultra-Orthodox Female Dean Paves the Way for Other Religious...
As a theoretical mathematician, Malka Schaps stands out as one of the few women in her academic field. And within that small group of female mathematicians, she stands out because she is Haredi. Last...
View ArticleThe Gertrude Stein of Anglo-Jewish Jerusalem
Writer Gertrude Stein, who would have turned 142 today, is probably best known for running a literary salon in Paris during the interwar years; Picasso used to drop by. The poet Linda Zisquit is...
View ArticleIsraeli Computer Scientists Figure Out a Way to Hack Self-Driving Cars
As if we didn’t have enough to make us feel utterly anxious, computer scientists from Israel’s Bar Ilan University recently discovered a way to remotely seize control of self-driving cars and turn them...
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