Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
In Judaism, when we pray, we always turn our bodies so that we face Jerusalem. The reason for this is that within the walls of her old city resides The Kotel. The Kotel, more commonly known as the Western or Wailing Wall, is the last remaining wall of the destroyed temple in Jerusalem. Its oldest…
God bless io9, my favorite sci-fi blog. In addition to sci-fi, the blog hosts regular features — like Mad Science — that focus on real life things… such as 16th century nose jobs. The post notes that it was multi-week process that involved grafting your whole arm onto your face and so forth. Apparently, it…