Stephen Hawking rejects the Zionism of Einstein

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Published on May 14, 2013

The Cosmos, Oneness and Judaism

By Roger Price
Published on May 3, 2013

On Einstein and God

Published on November 8, 2012

On October 8, 2012, a handwritten letter was set for auction on e-bay. It sold, 10 days later, with a winning bid of over $3M. The handwritten letter was penned by Albert Einstein to Jewish philosopher Eric B. Gutkind in January 1954, a year before Einstein’s death. In the letter, the Nobel Prize winning physicist called religion childish and made light the idea of Jewish “chosenness.”

Court rejects Hebrew U. lawsuit against GM over Einstein’s image

Published on October 22, 2012

A lawsuit by Hebrew University challenging the right of General Motors to use the image of Albert Einstein in an advertisement was dismissed in a U.S. court.

Albert Einstein’s ‘God Letter’ to be auctioned online

Published on October 2, 2012

A letter handwritten by physicist Albert Einstein a year before his death, expressing his views on religion, will be sold on eBay this month with an opening bid of $3 million, an auction agency said on Tuesday.

Once dreaming of a Hebrew charter school, now only Mandarin is offered

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 27, 2012

When the Albert Einstein Academy for Letters, Arts and Sciences (AEA) opened in August 2010, part of the draw for parents was the chance for students at the Santa Clarita charter middle and high school to study Hebrew. Since then, AEA backers have submitted petitions to set up elementary schools in the Newhall School District, Los Angeles Unified School District and Ventura Unified School District, without success. In August 2012, a revised version of its twice-rejected petition for an elementary charter was submitted to the Saugus Union School District in Santa Clarita. Among the changes in the newest version was eliminating offering Hebrew at the school, at least initially.

The appraisal

By Rob Eshman
Published on September 27, 2012

Last April, just inside the entrance to the “Salute to Israel” Festival at Rancho Park, the National Council of Jewish Women set up a large tented area where it sold all sorts of secondhand items from its thrift stores: clothes, Judaica, kitchenware, art.

Proposed Albert Einstein Elementary charter to get a new hearing

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 12, 2012

The Saugus Union School District is set to hold a third hearing on Sept. 19 regarding a petition to establish an Albert Einstein Academy for Letters, Arts & Sciences (AEA) charter elementary school in Santa Clarita. If approved, the school would be the second in the AEA family of charter schools, along with a charter high school in Santa Clarita that started its third year in August. It would also be one of a handful of charter schools on the West Coast where Hebrew is taught as a second language. Classes in Mandarin would also be offered.

How Jewish is relativity?

By Jonathan Kirsch
Published on August 8, 2012

"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world,” Albert Einstein quipped in 1922. “Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”

Albert Einstein museum to be built in Jerusalem

Published on May 21, 2012

Israel's Cabinet unanimously approved the establishment of an Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem.

Einstein online: Internet archive offers window into physicist’s life and work

Published on March 20, 2012

Ever wonder about Albert Einstein’s love life? Now you can get a firsthand glimpse by searching the newly improved Einstein Archives website, which relaunched Monday with expanded offerings. The online archive now makes available digitally 2,000 documents from Einstein’s papers and other sources, as well as a searchable catalogue of more than 80,000 documents held in the Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Obama planted seeds of failure

By David Suissa
Published on March 30, 2011

A couple of years ago, I wrote a public letter to President Obama applauding his commitment to peace in the Middle East, but warning that he should be prepared to fail. My reasoning was that he was following Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result. In critiquing his approach, I used the metaphor of trying to plant a flower into desert sand. No matter how hard you try to force it, if the earth isn’t right, nothing will grow.

Ventura rejects Hebrew language charter

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 29, 2011

Einstein’s allure is more than theory on stage

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 10, 2008

We think of Albert Einstein, and we conjure up the image of a frail, unkempt and absent-minded old man, but a visit to the Einstein archives at Caltech provides quite another picture.

The man who radically transformed our understanding of the universe was adored by women, at 23 fathered an illegitimate child and after marriage had a few side flings with other women.

Einstein in California

By Tom Teicholz
Published on September 2, 2004

One hundred years ago, Einstein was a Zurich Polytechnic teaching graduate who couldn't land a job in academe.

Caltech Seeks the Complete Einstein

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 11, 2004

He was a lifelong atheist who was offered the presidency of the State of Israel.

He was a dedicated pacifist who helped usher in the atomic age.

He was a modest man whose face may be the most familiar one in the world.

Though pictured mainly as a frail, unkempt old man, he was adored by women, fathered an illegitimate child when he was 23 and after marriage engaged in a number of extramarital affairs.

The complex and contradictory man was, of course, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest intellects of all ages, who radically transformed our understanding of the universe.

Einstein in China Not Just a Legend

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 10, 2002

The China-bound exhibit of Albert Einstein, once canceled, is back on track -- maybe.

Hebrew Secret

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on July 5, 2001

The discussion was con-fidential when Roger Richman, attorney for Hebrew University of Jerusalem, met with Bonnie Curtis, Steven Spielberg's producer on "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence." Spielberg needed the university's help on his top-secret film, about a robot child who longs to become a real boy.