On March 19th the Hebrew University launched the updated and expanded Einstein Archives website at www.alberteinstein.info  containing a complete catalogue of more than 80 000 documents in the University’s Einstein Archives. This includes more than 40 000 documents contained in Albert Einstein’s personal papers and over 30 000 additional Einstein and Einstein-related documents discovered since the [...]

My name is Charlie and I am a 4th year student from the University of Waterloo, graduating with a double major in History and Peace and Conflict Studies. During my final year of university, I felt as though I was in a rut and the monotony of life was becoming unbearable. With graduation approaching, I [...]

I’m constantly in awe of the amazing discoveries that come out of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. There are products that have been invented there that many people don’t event  realize they use in their day-to-day lives, such as cherry tomatoes. In honour of these inventions which have benefited humanity in various ways, a new [...]

They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. As a girl, I must inform you that this statement is slightly misleading – you can certainly get to my heart through food too. Last week the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University sponsored an event that tried to appeal to everyone’s [...]

Last week I was disappointed to see that the Israeli film Footnote lost to the Iranian film A Separation in the category of best foreign language film at the Academy Awards. Footnote, a drama written and directed by Hebrew U alum Joseph Cedar circles around a power struggle between a father and a son in [...]

Check out what one of our alumni had to say about his experience in Jerusalem! For three months I studied at the Masa Israel-accredited Hebrew University in Jerusalem, doing a semester exchange during my third year of law school at the University of Windsor. From the time I first learned about the opportunity to spend [...]

As we embark on a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some of the major accomplishments at the Hebrew University from 2011. Click each story to learn more. The Hebrew University’s Institute for Medical Research Israel Canada (IMRIC) IMRIC researchers win Canada Gairdner International Medical Science Award Hebrew U [...]

Currently studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on her junior year abroad, Toronto native Jordana Skurka is used to learning in far-flung places. Her home college is Dalhousie University, located in the port city of Halifax on the small Canadian island province of Nova Scotia. So what’s a nice Jewish girl doing there? For [...]

Atidim, the ambitious Hebrew University program aimed at training young Israeli’s interested in bringing a change to their society, visited Toronto at the end of July to participate in a “mini-semester abroad”. The trip’s purpose was to educate the group on Israeli and international public sector dilemnas and approaches. Supported in part by Dr. Ralph [...]

Written by Rosa Stall A number of young people from around the world, including Canada, spent time in Israel on Masa Israel programs. This is the third in a series of stories as told by some of the Canadian participants. “Why would you ever choose Jerusalem over Tel Aviv?” a representative asked me at McGill’s [...]