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Wave Energy - Harnessing the ocean's power to create electricity, science fact or fiction?
The American Electric Power Research Institute issued a new report claiming Wave Energy to become economically feasible in the near future. The World Energy Council estimates that 2TW of energy could be harvested from the world's oceans, the equivalent of twice the world's electricity production. Wave Energy Production is one of the most environmentally benign ways to generate electricity. Shmuel...
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Operating under the auspices of the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority, the Sea Turtle Rescue Center helps the endangered turtles to maximize reproduction and heals their various ailments. Nearly 70% of the sanctuary's charges eventually return to the wild, and the center also serves as a hub for environmental public relations.
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Literary Star Michael Chabon - Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Michael Chabon sits down for a one on one interview with blogger, Brad A. Greenberg to discuss his recent work and the Jewish characters that populate his novels. Michael Chabon is one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. His first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was published when Chabon was 25 and catapulted him to the status of literary celebrity. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys, and two...
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Gentleman's Agreement Trailer - The best of the few Hollywood treatments of anti-Semitism. Gregory Peck gives the right gravity to his role of a magazine reporter who comes to understand in a personal way the barriers imposed by prejudice when, to add depth to his magazine feature, he takes on a Jewish identity. Hart wrote the script, based on the novel by Laura Z. Hobson. Release Year: 1948. This book turned movie was one of the great hits of its time - the book topped the best-seller list...
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Every year the Women in Green organization (led by Ruth and Nadia Matar) lead a massive march of Jewish people in a circle around the entire Old City Walls - it is one of the most inspiring of experiences - and often draws in excess of 10,000 participants. Here is a video from the march in 2007. Tisha B'Av (the Ninth of Av) is a full day of mourning and prayer commemorating the destruction of the Jewish Temples on the Har HaBayit (Temple Mounts). It is the only other full day of fasting...
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