Trinity sets events for Lenten season
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th St. in Little Rock, will hold events on Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent, which runs now through April 18.
On Wednesdays after the 5:15 p.m. Eucharist, the church will host a "Why I Love the Bible" series with the Rev. Russ Snapp and George Harper, designed to engage participants in a way that increases enthusiasm for the reading and study of Scripture.
Each Friday through April 12 the church will feature "organ meditations" by organists including Jason Pennington-Saugey, Rees Roberts, Beau Baldwin and Victoria Harden at 12:15 p.m. in conjunction with silent meditation and prayers.
The church will also host a free performance of works by musicians including Leighton, Sumison, Howells and Wood by the Sewanee Choir at 7:30 p.m. March 20.
-- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Survivors splitting Jewish terror fund
PITTSBURGH -- A $6.3 million fund established in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre will primarily be split among the families of the dead and survivors of the worst attack on Jews in U.S. history.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh made the announcement Tuesday.
The group set up a "Victims of Terror Fund" after the Oct. 27 attack at Tree of Life synagogue that killed 11 and wounded seven. The fund took in donations from more than 8,500 people, companies and organizations in 48 states and at least eight countries.
Organizers say about $5.3 million will be given to those most directly affected by the attack. Most of the balance will go to the three congregations affected, with some of the money paying for repairs to the damaged synagogue.
-- The Associated Press
Hebrew University has Einstein stash
JERUSALEM -- Israel's Hebrew University says it has obtained a "magnificent" collection of Albert Einstein's manuscripts, including a personal letter in which he expressed shame for not knowing the Hebrew language.
The university announced the acquisition on Wednesday ahead of the physicist's 140th birthday, following a donation by the Crown-Goodman Foundation. The Chicago-based foundation bought the 110-page collection from a private collector in North Carolina for an undisclosed sum.
Among the documents are Einstein's correspondences with lifelong friend Michele Besso. In one letter, Einstein praises Besso, a Christian of Jewish descent, for learning Hebrew. Einstein wrote that he "must feel ashamed" for not speaking Hebrew, "but I prefer to feel ashamed than to learn it."
Einstein left most of his collection to the university after his death in 1955.
-- The Associated Press
Religion on 03/09/2019