Click Here to Read: A new exhibition in New York tells the story of Jews in space: The exhibition, “Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit”, taps into a Jewish fascination with the stars that goes back many centuries by Sonia Zhuravlyova on the JC website on
February 26, 2018.
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37 Artists Native to the Americas Weave Stories of Migration and Geography
Click Here to Read: 37 Artists Native to the Americas Weave Stories of Migration and Geography: In a time of bald-faced white supremacy and discrimination, the Nebraska exhibition Monarchs feels vitally relevant by Jillian Steinhauer on the HyperAllergic website on February 14, 2018.
Native American Basket Weavers. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2018
Kalpana Asok
Namaste, everyone, as you look at this beautiful picture of our February poet, who has been in this country for thirty-one years. Her country of origin was India and her native language Tamil, but her primary language is English. The greeting, as many of you know, is given with the hands pressed together and a small bow, meaning the recognition of the divine in another person.
What better time could there be to recognize the soul in every human being than this, when the world is talking and thinking about immigration and when much of that talk has been less than generous and even hostile? But here, with Kalpana Asok, we have someone who is kind and grateful, as we will see from her poems and the story of her life. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2018
Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care
Click Here to Read: Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care: In Kerry Tribe’s video we see both actors playing patients and medical students acting as though they were doctors, but the aim is for something real: empathy by Emily Wilson on the HyperAllergic website on February 8, 2018.
Photo: Pepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Gideon Rubin Explores The Sinister History Of Nazi Propaganda At Freud Museum
Click Here to Read:Poem For the Day Friday: I Paint What I See By E.B. White
4,400-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Dedicated to Priestess Heptet Discovered
Click Here to Read: 4,400-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Dedicated to Priestess Heptet Discovered: In Heptet’s newly uncovered tomb, it’s all about the monkey paintings by Elena Goukassian on February 6, 2018.
Lady Meresimen, Singer of God Amon, giving presents to Osiris and the “Four Sons of Horus” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons