Welcome back to BU, Core scholars! We hope your break was restful and fun. Here’s this week’s installment of links to start things off!
- What better way to bond than over obscure details from the Bible? Yaelle Frohlich and Yair Shahak do just that, earning them spots in the finals of the International Adult Bible Contest in Jerusalem, which sounds a lot like the identification questions on Core finals.
The happy couple conceals a fierce rivalry behind loving smiles. Probably. (via The Jewish Star)
- In honor of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, her home county of Hampshire, England, will host a year of events dedicated to the British author.
- Confucian schools for young children continue to grow in popularity amongst the middle class of China.
- Led by Italian conductor Paolo Olmi, a symphony orchestra sponsored by the Italian embassy in Tehran and the Iranian embassy in Rome performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in Tehran’s Vahdat Hall this Thursday, January 19th. This was the first time since 1979 that a Western orchestra has played in Iran.
- “La Medea” transforms Euripides’s tragedy of Medea into a Latin-disco variety show opens tonight, January 20, and runs until the 22nd. It will be filmed in front of a live audience at Bric Arts Media in Brooklyn, New York.
Dancing queen. (via the Brooklyn Paper)
Take it easy, Corelings. Here’s to a great spring semester!
