Albert Einstein

New AI tool allows users to chat with Jewish historical figures

Jewish Lives says the site is designed to “enrich reader exploration of the Jewish experience.” They’ve created lesson plans to help educators use Ask Jewish Lives in the classroom.

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IMAGES OF Albert Einstein and Emma Goldman are featured in "Ask Jewish Lives," an AI bot that bases its conversations on the "Jewish Lives" series of biographies.
The commemorative stamp, with a face value of 9 shekels, was designed by Studio Mench and is available for purchase through the Israel Post Philatelic Service website.

Hebrew University marks centennial with official new commemorative stamp

University officials said the centennial marks both a reflection on past achievements, including ten Nobel Prizes and two Turing Awards, and a framework for future growth.

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Albert Einstein's letter, discovered by Tel Aviv’s Gnazim Institute, the world’s largest archive of Hebrew literature, November 2025.

Newly-discovered Einstein letter surfaces in Tel Aviv, reveals praise for Jewish assistant

The letter has not yet been authenticated but is most likely genuine, according to external expert opinion given to TPS-IL.

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Professor Hanoch Gutfruend is a physics professor, former Hebrew University president, and Academic Head of the Einstein Archive. He showed The Jerusalem Post around the archives to mark 100 years of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hebrew University's centennial: Einstein's legacy and the guardian of a scientific icon

Einstein's letters, theories, and Jewish legacy will live on in the hills of Jerusalem at the Hebrew University.

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Grapevine: Protekzia on parade

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JANUARY 28, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
The new security measures outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home on Azza Street in Jerusalem.

14 Days: US Summit

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

NOVEMBER 11, 2022BySTEVE LINDE
Israel's President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with US President Joe Biden in the White House.

Grapevine: Young-looking Lookstein

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

OCTOBER 31, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein

Gov’t approves $18m. for new Albert Einstein Museum at Hebrew U

This project, led by the Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Ministry and HU, will include the construction of a unique facility that will house the full Einstein archives.

OCTOBER 23, 2022ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Albert Einstein in 1947

Prague: A millennium of Jewish history

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 43

OCTOBER 3, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Spanish synagogue with kafka statue

Albert Einstein letter noting Jewish solidarity to go to auction

Einstein made an interesting comment regarding Jewish solidarity, which is rarely seen in the famed scientist’s correspondence throughout his life, in a 1928 letter.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Albert Einstein

Einstein notes with sketches of relativity theory sold in Paris auction

The 54 pages of paper, around half-filled with Einstein's handwriting, are one of only two working documents known in which the thinker approaches his famous theory.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021ByREUTERS
The Einstein-Besso manuscript, a 54-page working manuscript written jointly by Albert Einstein and Michele Besso between June 1913 and early 1914, which documents a crucial stage in the development of the general theory of relativity, is displayed at Christie's auction house in Paris, France.

Newly-discovered letter from Einstein reveals US antisemitism in 1930s

“I am not informed (of a vacancy) even when it falls under my own specialty,” the celebrated scientist admitted in the letter, written in German, that has been translated to English

NOVEMBER 22, 2021ByBEN ZION GAD
Albert Einstein

Could wormholes be used for future space travel? A new study explains

A theory proposes that wormholes, if they exist, might be more stable than previously suggested.

NOVEMBER 16, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Wormhole corresponding to the maximal analytic extension of the Reissner Nordstrom metric.

Albert Einstein's letter on Hitler, Jewish refugees up for auction

The letter, written in 1934, speaks about Hitler and about Jewish refugees in America.

MAY 20, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Albert Einstein