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

By Milos Rastovic

On March 30th, 2019, the fourth SNF Serbian Movie Festival took place at the Cathedral of Learning , University of Pittsburgh. The Serbian Movie Festival was sponsored by the Serb National Federation (SNF), Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and Yugoslav Room Committee, and the Nationality Rooms at the University of Pittsburgh. The Festival’s main goal is to preserve, perpetuate, and promote Serbian culture, tradition, and heritage in addition to furthering greater Pittsburgh’s cultural diversity.

SERB NATIONAL FEDERATION, CENTER FOR RUSSIAN & EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

YUGOSLAV ROOM COMMITTEE, NATIONALITY ROOMS PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Present

SERBIAN MOVIE FESTIVAL

Preserving Serbian Cultural Heritage, Enriching & Promoting Greater Pittsburgh’s Cultural Diversity

SATURDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2019

University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning
Room #232
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Један од највећих умова 20. века, српски научник - Никола Тесла, умро је на данашњи дан, на Божић 1943 године, а њему у част 12. јануара ће у хотелу Њујоркер на Менхетну, у коме је провео последњих десетак година, бити одржана Конференција у организацији Тесла научне фондације из Филаделфије.

На тој годишњој Конференцији, која се одржава уз подршку Генералног Конзулата Србије у Њујорку говориће, како је Тањугу речено, више од 20 учесника из САД, Канаде, Србије, Мексика и Хрватске.

Умро је у сну, у хотелској соби на Божић, а вест о томе објављена два дана касније, када је његово тело нађено. Урна са Теслиним пепелом пренета је из Њујорка у Београд 1951. и налази се у његовом Музеју.

"Тесла је у хотелу 'Њујоркер' живео последњих десетак година и ту је напустио овоземаљски живот 7. јануара 1943. Хотел нам је зато место окупљања сваког јануара, а у намери да представимо што већи број успешних појединаца које се баве Теслом. Скуп је и својеврсна припрема за 'Тесла Фест' планиран за јануар 2020. у 'Њујоркеру', и у јулу 2019. у Београду", рекао је председник Тесла научне фондације Никола Лончар.

ЛОС АНЂЕЛЕС - Документарни филм Миле Турајлић "Друга страна свега" награђен је за најбољи сценарио на годишњој додели награда Међународног удружења документариста (International Documentary Association - IDA) у Лос Анђелесу.

IDA Documentary Awards је најпрестижнија светска церемонија посвећена документарном филму и ове године је одржана у чувеном Парамаунт студију у срцу Холивуда.

Ова награда се такође сматра једним од главних догађаја који отварају "сезону Оскара".

Saint Sava Church in Jackson, California, for the fourth time celebrated the feast day of its founder, Saint Sebastian of Jackson, an Apostle of America, in the 2018th year of the Lord, with great joy and love. Although on a week day, Friday, the church was filled with the faithful from various Orthodox churches and from various places of California, who all desired an encounter with the great man in whom God is well-pleased. Like last year, priests from a few neighboring Serbian and other Orthodox parishes gathered together for Divine Liturgy, but a special joy this year was brought by two guests from afar.

ЧИКАГО - Премијера представе "Српска Рамонда", аутора Милана Андријанића, која је изведена у Чикагу поводом обележавања 100-годишњице од завршетка Првог светског рата, дирнула је све Србе који су имали прилику да је погледају.

Препуна сала устала је на ноге и запевала "Тамо далеко", преноси данас Српска телевизија у САД.

"Прича о јунаштву наших војника има невероватну јачину. Остављена је велика порука, а оно што су наши урадили за нас, не сме никада да се заборави. Надамо се да ће ова представа имати прилику да освоји срца Срба поновним извођењем, јер представа никога неће оставити равнодушним", наведено је на сајту те телевизије.

You’d expect to toast “Živeli!” with a drink in hand on one of the famous splavs, or floating clubs, in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade. What you might not expect is that some travelers are toasting in Serbian monasteries — with Serbian monks. There are over 400 monasteries of the Orthodox faith in Serbia — including a few that are UNESCO World Heritage sites —with approximately 200 still actively in use and managed by monks and nuns. Many of these monasteries are open to the public for religious and historical tours and close-up views of magnificent medieval frescoes. Unless you’re a fan of history, a monastery tour in Serbia may not sound like the most exciting time, but that's where you’d be wrong. See, there’s one interesting aspect of these monasteries that most people don’t know about: in Serbia, monks sell homemade alcohol.

Predsjednica američke Savezne korporacije za osiguranje depozita, koju je na ovu visoku poziciju u administraciji SAD, juna ove godine, odabrao šef Bijele kuće Donald Tramp, porijeklom je Srpkinja.

Jelena Obrenić Mekvilijams, trenutno najviše pozicionirana Amerikanka srpskog porijekla u Trampovoj administraciji, posljednja je u nizu naših sunarodnika visokih funkcionera u američkim administracijama.

Rođena u Beogradu, sa osamnaest godina Jelena je stigla u SAD na program razmjene srednjoškolaca. Radeći brojne osrednje plaćene poslove, sama je finansirala dalje školovanje i završila prestižni kalifornijski Berkli univerzitet.

Diplomirala je, na političkim naukama, sa najvišim ocjenama, na tezi o ratu u Jugoslaviji. A onda je "osvojila" i diplomu pravnika, takođe na Berkliju.

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Bishop Damaskin (Grdanički)

The vacant episcopal post of the American-Canadian Diocese was filled on June 22, 1938 at the Regular Session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Elected as its second Diocesan Hierarch was Bishop Dr. Damaskin (Grdanicki) of Mukachevo and Priashevo.

Bishop Damaskin was born in Leskovac in 1892. He graduated from the nine year St. Sava Seminary in Belgrade, while simultaneously attending the Belgrade Music School. After finishing the Seminary, he taught music at the First High School in Kragujevac. Received into the monastic order at Rakovica Monastery by Archimandrite Platon, later martyred as Bishop of Banja Luka, he studied at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy where he received a Master's Degree in Theology in 1917. He then went to Freiburg, Switzerland where he obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy.

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Notes On Ecumenism

Written in 1972 by St. Abba Justin Popovich, edited by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, translated from Serbian by Aleksandra Stojanovich, and proofread by Fr Miroljub Ruzich

Abba Justin’s manuscript legacy (on which Bishop Athanasius have been working for a couple of years preparing an edition of The Complete Works ), also includes a parcel of sheets/small sheets of paper (in the 1/4 A4 size) with the notes on Ecumenism (written in pencil and dating from the period when he was working on his book “The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism”; there are also references to the writings of St. Bishop Nikolai [Velimirovich], short excerpts copied from his Sermons, some of which were quoted in the book).

The editor presents the Notes authentically, as he has found them in the manuscripts (his words inserted in the text, as clarification, are put between the slashes /…/; all the footnotes are ours).—In the appendix are present the facsimiles of the majority of Abba’s Notes which were supposed to be included in his book On Ecumenism (written in haste then, but now significantly supplemented with these Notes. The Notes make evident the full extent of Justin’s profundity as a theologian and ecclesiologist of the authentic Orthodoxy).—The real Justin is present in these Notes: by his original language, style, literature, polemics, philosophy, theology, and above all by his confession of the God-man Christ and His Church. He confesses his faith, tradition, experience and his perspective on man, on the world and on Europe—invariably in the Church and from the Church, in the God-man Christ and from Him, just as he did in all of his writings and in his entire life and theologizing.