Microfilm as the most reliable way to store archives
Microfilm shelf life 500 years. Hard drives, 3-5 years.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/microfilm-lasts-half-a-millennium/565643/
Archive for year: 2018
Is literacy a right?
A group of students from Detroit want to learn to read, they go to court for their right.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/
Passover, once in Benghazi
From Jennifer Felicia Abadi’s Too Good to Passover
Libya by Vivienne Roumani-Denn
“During the Seder we all took turns reading passages from the haggadah… It was read sometimes in several languages, in Hebrew, first and foremost, as well as Judeo-Arabic because everybody …should understand it.”