In 1768, Antoine Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, declared, “Stones don’t fall from the sky, because there are no stones in the sky!” Many museums in Europe actually threw out their meteorite specimens, considering them nothing more than superstition.
In 1865, a man named Joshua Coppersmith was arrested in New York for attempting to raise funds from the “ignorant and superstitious” for a device he claimed would convey the human voice at any distance over metallic wires. He called it a telephone. Journalists supported his incarceration.
In 1903, just weeks prior to the first flight at Kitty Hawk, Simon Newcomb, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, published an article proving that powered human flight was “utterly impossible.” When the Wright brothers claimed to have built a flying machine, it was dismissed as a hoax by the scientific journals, newspapers, the US military, and most American scientists.
In 1957, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, famously said “space travel is bunk” only two weeks before Sputnik 1 was launched into space by the Russians.
Pizza With A Rabbi is a fresh outlook on what it means to be Jewish.
New York Times bestselling Author Robert Shemin combines forces with Rabbi Pinchas Taylor to shed light into some of the common Orthodox Jewish Religious practices!
This fun and contemporary peek into an ancient tradition translates what for many of onlookers appears strange and sometimes even oppressive. Jewish born, but non religious Shemin ponders what many of us have been wondering but have been afraid to ask!
Laced with humor and snappy examples this must read book is entertaining as well as informative! Dive into a fun translation of ancient traditions!