A new kind of “brake-by-wire” system, which does entirely without hydraulics, will soon hit the market. Brembo and ZF announced recently that each has signed contracts for their respective systems.

The Talmud in Tractate Gittin 57B teaches that the direct descendants of Haman the Amalekite (who lived in ancient Persia about 2,500 years ago) eventually became students of Torah in Bnei Brak in ...