10 March 2014
The Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) initiative, a worldwide distance teaching project, was launched in Portugal in 2013 with the participation of a number of private and public institutions of higher learning. The newest MOOC, titled “A Consciência dos Valores,” opened online Monday with a class of 100 students from Portugal (75%), Brazil (20%) and […]
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09 March 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) Ukrainians living in Portugal say they want peace, democracy and the rule of law in their homeland. They condemn Russia’s President Putin for ‘interfering’ in the current crisis there. “Ukraine is opposed to the rule of force, intimidation and provocations from President Putin’s side,” Pavlo Sadokha, president of the Association of […]
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07 March 2014
The European People’s Party, meeting in Dublin, Ireland, Friday, has chosen former Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, 59, to succeed José Manuel Durão Barroso as European Commission president. Barroso, a former Prime Minister of Portugal (2002 – 2004) will be leaving the office of European Commission President in October, after having served two full terms. […]
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06 March 2014
Two paleontologists in Portugal, Christophe Hendrickx and Octávio Mateus, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, have identified a new species of carnivorous dinosaur from 150 million years ago. In a joint study, the two scientists concluded that the fossils of a dinosaur preserved in the Lourinhã Museum, in Portugal, which were thought to belong to the Torvosaurus […]
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05 March 2014
‘Being the Nação in the Eternal City’, a new book by James William Nelson Novoa, explores in a set of case studies focusing on seven carefully chosen figures, the presence of Portuguese individuals of Jewish origin in Rome after the initial creation of a tribunal of the Portuguese Inquisition in 1531. The book delves into […]
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04 March 2014
The Azorean-Jewish Heritage Foundation and Temple Beth El of Fall River (MA) are sponsoring a conference by historian José de Almeida Mello, coordinator of the Sahar Hassamain Synagogue restoration project in Ponta Delgada, Azores. Mello, who is the chief librarian of the Ponta Delgada Municipal Library, was invited in 2003, by the Israeli Community of […]
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