Dr. Morton Maimon Mower, a noted American cardiologist and co-inventor of the Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator — a device that detects when a heart beats too rapidly or inefficiently and delivers a shock to produce a normal rhythm — died of cancer on Monday, Apr. 25, in Denver. He was 89. “As a medical inventor, his innovations restarted the hearts…
As an artist, Ann Kibel Schwartz enjoys experimentation, with different types of artistic mediums, which can go as far as creating art that attempts to escape from the very frame she has set it in. “I have a number of pieces that I did over the years that are trying to reach out beyond the frame,” Schwartz said when describing…
We are within the period between Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, and Yom Haatzmaut, during which we commemorate the Holocaust, remember those who died fighting for Israel, and the birth of the State of Israel. It is a time of reflection and gladness, of mourning and joy. It is a time during which we look back, but it also is a…