Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, begins this month. Yom Kippur translates from Hebrew to English as the "Day of Atonement." Jewish people may spend the day fasting or attending ...
And here, “cosmopolitan” was code for “Jewish”. Wernher’s wife, Birdie, was Jewish; so were Mewès and Davis. But Wernher himself was not: he had been born into an old established ...