A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

U vremenu kad se i umetnički svet na Zapadu zbog ratnih sukoba u Ukrajini vraća na modele ponašanja koji su prethodili opštoj tragediji Drugog svetskog rata, u Njujorku je otvorena izložba likovnih dela ispirisana životom i književnošću jednog najvećih ruskih i svetskih pisca Fjodora Mihajloviča Dostojevskog.

Reč je o radovima neformalne grupe slikara „Ohra“ i više savremenih grčkih umetnika, čija je postavka svoj izložbeni život počela prošlog septembra u Atini pod nazivom „San smešnog čoveka“, čime se Grčka priključila obeležavanju 200-godišnjice rođenja velikog klasika ruske i svetske književnosti.

Domaćin izložbe „Lepota spasava – Dostojevski u Njujorku“ je galerija Umetničkog Šin centra Njujorške nadbiskupije.

„Čovek može da živi bez nauke, može da živi bez hleba, ali bez lepote više ne može da živi”, citiraju u ovoj njujorškoj galeriji Dostojevskog povodom izložbe koja će trajati do 30. aprila.

We were all saddened to hear of the passing of iconic Rock singer Meat Loaf aged 74. With all the huge sustained musical success over the decades, it’s hard to imagine now how back in the 1970s no one was interested in the rock theatrical music of composer Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf.

The record labels they approached literally laughed at them – by 1976/77 people were dancing to disco and some were pogoing to punk rock.

Conventional wisdom said there was no market for a 350 lb guy singing epic eight-minute long Wagnerian-style rock anthems.

It took an unconventional, determined, dedicated Cleveland record executive, Steve Popovich to go with his instinct he had honed over 15 years to prove them all wrong and put Meat Loaf on the Musical Map of the World.

Arista records had laughed so hard at their audition, the executives even insulted composer Jim Steinman saying he should go out and buy real rock ‘n’ roll records so he could learn to write proper songs.

Tesla memorijalno društvo iz Njujorka saopštilo je da je preminuo dr Ljubomir Vujović, autor brojnih članaka posvećenih Tesli, koji učestvovao je i u mnogim TV, radio i novinskim intervjuima koji su imali za temu Teslin rad, ali i srpsku kulturu

Dr Ljubomir Vujović, predsednik Tesla memorijalnog društva iz Njujorka preminuo je u nedelju 28. novembra 2021. okružen porodicom u selu Komarno (Crna Gora).

Dr Vujović je bio lekar, pisac, filmski producent i jedna od vodećih ličnosti Teslinog pokreta u Americi. Njegov dugogodišnji volonterski rad imao je za cilj očuvanje sećanja na lik i delo Nikole Tesle i nikada neće biti zaboravljen. Neumorno je radio kao lekar u njujorškoj Metropoliten bolnici (Metropolitan Hospital) više od 50 godina.

Eisenhower je predstavio američko piće generalu Žukovu. Rus je htio još, ali Coca Cola nije smjela nalikovati na Coca Colu.

Tu nastupa crnogorski migrant Mladin Zarubica.

Pričali smo s njegovom djecom.

Globalno prepoznat pjenušavi napitak tamne boje. Coca-Cola.

Piće koje simbolizira kapitalizam i Ameriku.

No manje je poznato kako se u svrhu “diplomatskog rješenja” proizvodila prozirna Coca-Cola s čepom crvene zvijezde. Napravili su je Amerikanci kako bi podmitili Ruse, točnije slavnoga generala Georgija Žukova osobno.

Mladin Zarubica, dijete roditelja koji su migrirali iz Crne Gore u Ameriku, odigrat će u tome ključnu ulogu. Na osobnu molbu predsjednika Harryja Trumana, Zarubica se nakon Drugog svjetskog rata vraća u Europu kako bi u Lambachu uspostavio punionicu Coca-Cole s ciljem da podigne moral američkim trupama.

Prozirne Coca-Cole dosjetio se kao diplomatskog rješenja kako bi izbjegao blokadu transporta sirovina i samog proizvoda koji su im radili Rusi.

Na programu ovogodišnjeg Festa nalazi se i jedan neobičan, čudesan film. Amerikanac srpskog porekla, Aleksandar Jović, predstaviće publici svojih predaka dokumentarac "Iznad vrha” (Beyond the Peak), svoj prvenac o srpskoj pravoslavnoj zajednici iz Indijane koja je izvela neverovatan poduhvat.

Pri Crkvi Sv. Nikole u Indijanapolisu postoji udruženje duhovnih planinara, da ga tako nazovemo, koje spaja penjanje do najviših vrhova SAD sa molitvom. Njihov vođa je Dejvid Rajković, bivši planinar amater koji je, nakon preranog gubitka mlađeg brata Zakarija, odlučio da prekine desetogodišnju pauzu u penjanju i ode na najvišu tačku na koju može, ne bi li bio što bliže Bogu i zamolio ga da Zakariju obezbedi siguran put do raja.

Naučnica Gordana Vunjak-Novaković nominovana je za finalistkinju prestižne Evropske nagrade za pronalazače 2021 za inovativni doprinos u bio-medicinskom inženjerstvu, objavio je danas Evropski zavod za patente (EZP).

Rad srpsko-američke naučnice rešio je kompleksne probleme u vezi sa zamenom oštećenog tkiva, zbog čega je EZP odlučio da prvi put jedna je od troje finalista u prestižnoj kategoriji „Životno delo“ bude i naučnica iz Srbije.

„Tokom svoje naučne karijere, Gordana Vunjak-Novaković dala je ogroman doprinos inženjerstvu tkiva, jednom od najperspektivnijih načina za produženje ljudskog veka i poboljšanje kvaliteta života“, rekao je predsednik Evropskog zavoda za patente Antonio Kampinos, saopštavajući imena finalista za 2021. godinu.

THE SERB NATIONAL FEDERATION IS PROUD TO SPONSOR THE ONLINE SERBIAN PLAY "TWO WOMEN AND ONE WAR" WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

The Serb National Federation is pleased to recommend you to watch online the outstanding theatre performance Two Women and One War with Serbian actresses Marija Bergam and Vera Mujović in the leading roles. The performance describes the friendship between the Serbian and American people through the love story of two women who are forgotten heroines of the Great War.

International Essay Contest

Membership in the SNF is NOT Required

The Serb National Federation (SNF) is sponsoring a $10,000 Essay Competition regarding the relationship between the Serbian Diaspora and the Ancestral Homeland.

The International Essay Contest encourages students to think about a strategy to improve the relationship between the Serbian Diaspora and the Ancestral Homeland. Students need to identify the strategy that they believe will strengthen the ties between the Serbian Diaspora and their Ancestral Homeland. The Serb National Federation wants to inspire students to learn more about their Ancestral Homeland and express their ideas in the essay. There are several aspects of the relationship between the Serbian Diaspora and the Ancestral Homeland one can write about, including economic, diplomatic, religious, historical, cultural, and others.

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Milena Krasich

Electrical engineer

Life Member, 81; March 21, 2018

Krasich was senior principal systems engineer at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, in Tewksbury, Mass.

She began her career as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. While in California, she was a part-time professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she taught graduate courses in systems reliability, advanced reliability and maintainability, and statistical process control. She was also a part-time professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, teaching undergraduate courses in engineering statistics, reliability, and environmental testing.

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The Presence of Transcendence

Essays on Facing the Other through Holiness, History and Text

by Bogoljub Sijakovic

The essays collected in this book venture into various domains of philosophy, such as ontology and epistemology, anthropology and ethics, philosophy of history and history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and theory of the mystical, poetics and hermeneutics. The problems here thematized, which are brought to us primarily by the tradition of Hellenism and Christianity as well as life itself, are both traditional and contemporary: self-knowledge and knowledge of God, transcendence and paradoxy, theodicy and anthropodicy, sacrifice, violence, holiness, responsibility, decision-making, evil, guilt, repentance, forgiveness, memory, as well as: wisdom, suffering, good, the other, freedom, fate, history, the Balkans, war, rationality, and also: reading, dialogue, poetry, metaphysic of light.