Click Here to Read: COVID-19, Haredi Jewry, and ‘Magical’ Thinking: During quarantine, we judge the ultra-Orthodox for practicing what other Jews preach by Shaul Magid on the Tablet website on April 30, 2020.
Haredi or Charedi/Chareidi Judaism is the most conservative form of Orthodox Judaism, often referred to as ultra-Orthodox. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi (Haredim in the plural). Image: Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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January 3, 1937.
PSYCHIATRIST, DEAD; Freud Pupil Editor-in-Chief and One of Founders of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. SPECIALIST ON PARANOIA Former Medical Director of the Help Mental Diseases Hospital in Palestine. Dr. Dorian Feigenbaum, psychoanalyst and a founder and editorin-chief of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, died early yesterday at his home, 885 Park Avenue, of pneumonia. He was 49 years old. Dr. Feigenbaum, a specialist on paranoia, came to this country in 1924 after having practiced in Austria, Switzerland and Palestine
Click Here to Read: Polio’s Jewish History: How a community was affected by the epidemic—and by the scientists who discovered the vaccine by Jenna Weissman Joselit on the Tablet website on April 29, 2020.
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Click Here to Read: The Real Nazi Hunters: People like Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman and prosecutor John Loftus don’t get credit on TV, but it’s their work that exposed the U.S. government’s shielding of Nazi war criminals by Scott Lerner on the Tablet Website on April 22, 2020.
Former U.S. Representative from New York Elizabeth Holtzman. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Click Here to Read: Year of Wonders 1665-1667 Whilst escaping the Great Plague, Newton’s enormously productive time at Woolsthorpe is often called the Annus Mirabilis, or the “Year of Wonders’. Read about this period of intellectual endeavour, with extracts taken from the new Woolsthorpe guidebook by Patricia Fara on the National Trust of UK website.
Image: Sir Issac Newton by Gottfried Kneller. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
