The Way-Forward Machine: If we want to plan millennia ahead, we should ask how Jews have always done it

Click Here to Read: The Way-Forward Machine: If we want to plan millennia ahead, we should ask how Jews have always done it by Sam Aerbesman ion the Tablet Website on November 10, 2021.

Sephardi Jewish couple from Sarajevo in traditional clothing. Photo taken in 1900.  Image: Unknown Author.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

How did the enslaved workers of Pompeii live?

Click Here to Read: How did the enslaved workers of Pompeii live? A new discovery provides a rare glimpse by Kat Lonsdorf on the NPR website on November 7, 2021.
Pompeii. May 2003. Fresco on north wall of rear room. A soldier with spear in his left hand holds out his cup to a slave.  Image:  https://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R6/6%2010%2001%20p2.htm Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?

Click Here to Read:   Excavations at the site of ‘Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions of human resilience and adaptability By Josie Glausiusz on the Sapiens website on  October 14,  2021.

Homo erectus adult female – head model – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History – 2012-05-17 Image: Tim Evanson  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Zionism, and Sartre: Captain Alfred Dreyfus would have been 162 years old today

Click Here to Read: Dreyfus, Zionism, and Sartre: Captain Alfred Dreyfus would have been 162 years old today. His legacy on the left is dying, while the malice that targeted him is alive and well. BY David Mikis on the Tablet Website on October 08, 2021. 

Captain Alfred Dreyfus.   Image  Henry Roger-Viollet Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Scene of the Crime: A survivor of the Pittsburgh massacre returns to the synagogue where the shooting took place

Click Here to Read: The Scene of the Crime: A survivor of the Pittsburgh massacre returns to the synagogue where the shooting took place by Mark Oppenheimer on the Tablet website on October 05, 2021.

 Plaque listing the names of the victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting. By the 9/11 Memorial in Jerusalem. Image: Rataube.  Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.