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

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Republican U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, a two-term Ohio governor who preached frugality in his personal and public life and occasionally bucked the GOP establishment, died Sunday June 12. He was 79.

Voinovich, considered a moderate who opposed the size of former President George W. Bush’s tax cuts and later questioned Bush’s war strategy in Iraq, died peacefully in his sleep, his wife Janet confirmed. His death came as a surprise to friends, who said he seemed strong despite some recent health struggles.

Бивши амерички сенатор и у два наврата гувернер Охаја Џорџ Војиновић умро је 12. јуна 2016, у 79. години у Кливленду.

Супруга Џорџа Војиновића Џенет саопштила је да је он преминуо у сну, јавља АП, а преноси Тајм.

Џорџ Виктор Војиновић је био амерички политичар из Охаја. Рођен је 1936. у Кливленду, као дете оца Србина, пореклом са Кордуна, и мајке Словенке. Био је најстарији од шесторо деце.

Агенција АП наводи да је Војиновић био умерен политичар.

[NEW YORK POST] Parishioners watched in horror as a massive 4-alarm fire engulfed a Serbian Orthodox church in Manhattan on Sunday — hours after hundreds celebrated Easter services, authorities said.

“For this to happen on such a holy day, I don’t know what to say,” said Alex Velic, a 31-year-old churchgoer, as enormous fireballs erupted from the shattered windows of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava on West 25th Street.

“To see it burning like that is such a shock. It’s just so sad,” he said. “I can’t think of the words to express how I’m feeling.”

Пролећни концерти симфонијског оркестра „Тампа Беј” са Флориде ове године протичу у знаку наше пијанисткиње Мине Мијовић, која је 2015. проглашена за најбољег младог интерпретатора класичне музике у овој америчкој држави. Новембра прошле године ова двадесетдвогодишња Крагујевчанка победила је на такмичењу у Тампи, у организацији симфонијског оркестра из овог места, који се, пре свега, бави популаризацијом класичне музике међу младима у САД.

On Saturday 16 April, His Grace Bishop Maxim of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church visited the Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College and presented a new book published within his diocese entitled The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija: The Historical and Spiritual Heartland of the Serbian People.

Bishop Maxim spoke about the efforts of the Serbian Orthodox Church to preserve its centuries-old monuments and the Christian heritage of Kosovo and Metohija.

North American Society for Serbian Studies is inviting nominations for the annual Miša Djordjević Book Prize.​ ​The prize is awarded annually to a distinguished scholar or student in the area of Serbian studies.

Nominations should be sent to Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover by 15 May 2016: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Previous recipients of this award include Charles Simic, the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States.

More about the Prize can be found here: http://serbianstudies.org/bookprize.html

The recipient of the 2013 "Mihajlo Misha Djordjevic" Book Award is Radmila Gorup for the collection "After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land", Stanford University Press, 2013.

The recipient of the 2012 "Mihajlo Misha Djordjevic" Book Award was Tomislav Z. Longinovic for his book "Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary", Duke University Press, 2012.

The recipient of Mihajlo Misha Djordjevic Book Prize for 2009 is Gregory A. Freeman for his book The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II.

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Beograđanka Aleksandre Denda sinoć je uz desetočlani bend predstavila svoj autorski album "Dreamer", jedinstvenu kombinaciju akustičnih i elektro elemenata uz primese neo soula, džeza i R&B-a. Kao predstavnica eminentne njujorške organizacije umetnika LeitmotivArts, Aleksandra je prepun klub oduševila kako svojim glasom tako i fantastičnim kompozicijama i tekstovima koji nikoga nisu ostavili ravnodušnim.

Brojna publika, koja je bila mešavina svih generacija i raznih kultura, nije krila oduševljenjue umećem ove velike pevačice, osetivši u njenim pesmama iskrenost i autentičnost, ljubav, lepotu, traganje i unutrašnje prevrate.

Aleksandra Denda je džez i neosoul pevačica i kantautorka koja trenutno živi i stvara u Njujorku. Ova beograđanka već godinama nastupa i snima širom Sjedinjenih Američkih Država, Evrope i Azije. Kao kreator i glas benda Aleksandra Denda Group, neguje zvuke soul-a, džeza, R&B-a ali i note Južne Amerike - brazilijane. Ona je takođe i suosnivač vokalne grupe ROSA, koja je jedina autentično-srpska a capella grupa na američkom kontinentu.

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Ilija Ika Panajotovic

Ilija "Ika" Panajotovic (25 April 1932 - 18 July 2001) was a Serbian film producer and tennis player.

Panajotovic, who made the junior semi-finals at Wimbledon in 1948, won back to back Yugoslavian Junior Championship titles in 1948 and 1949.

The Serbian competed in 12 Grand Slam tournaments during his career, all in the 1950s. He appeared at Wimbledon seven times and played in the French Championships on five occasions. From 1953 to 1959, Panajotovic participated in Wimbledon every year and made the third round in the 1958 Championships. He had a five set win over Akhtar Ali in the second round, before exiting to tournament with a loss to sixth seed Kurt Nielsen. In the men's doubles he also had success, with Panajotovic and his partner Ivko Plecevic reaching the quarter-finals.

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The Meaning of Reality

Essays on Existence and Communion, Eros and History

by Christos Yannaras

The collection of articles traces the thought of Christos Yanaras through his long journey in discovering the meaning of existence, communion, eros, and history. It is a cause of immense joy that no fewer than twenty articles of passionate significance and substance have at present been gathered together in this volume under the title The Meaning of Reality.

Yannaras is undoubtedly one of the most significant thinkers of our time. Kallistos Ware once described him as "the most creative and prophetic religious thinker at work in Greece today," while Rowan Williams characterizes him as "one of the most significant Christian philosophers in Europe." His very wide and no less deep education helps him to develop an inimitable blend of philosophy, theology, and social criticism, and to speak in an original way about the traditional and contemporary issues of human existence, as well as the latest challenges of modern empirical science and political engagement. A detailed knowledge of the writings of the Holy Fathers has always been his foundation amidst the labyrinth of modern thought - which is inimately bound up with psychoanalysis, environmental issues, human rights, postmodernism, and pluralism , to mention just a few. Insistence on the primacy, uniqueness, and eternal value of human personality prevails in almost all his works and inspires his own vigorous theological and ecumenical engagement, based on the Orthodox eucharistic and ascetic tradition.