ClicK Here to Read: What a Difference a ‘J’ Makes: The history of religious identification in military insignia—and how Jewish symbols evolved
by Jenna Weissman Joselit on the Tablet Website on Mat 20, 2020.
Staff Sgt. Xhevair Maskuli, external influence analyst, Multi-National Corps-Iraq, follows along in the Jewish Prayer Book, Victory Chapel, Camp Victory, Sept. 11. Image: Pfc. Karin Leach. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: We now have more evidence that Galileo likely never said “And yet it moves”: Astrophysicist Mario Livio talks about his new book Galileo and the Science Deniers by Jennifer Ouellette on the Ars Technica website on May 17, 2020.
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustemans Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Virginia and the Woolf: A drive across Hitler’s Germany and Austria in May 1935 made Leonard Woolf’s Jewishness real by Jonathan Wilson on the Tablet Website on May 14, 2020.
Engagement photograph, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 23 July 1912, a month before their wedding. Photograph taken at Dalingridge Place, the Sussex home of Virginia’s half-brother, George DuckworthPublic Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: A Mighty Empire Brought Down by Plague: We have seen this story before, says Kyle Harper’s brilliant ‘The Fate of Rome’ BY Edward N. Luttwak on the Tablet website on May 6, 2020.
Image: Meister von San Vitale in Ravenna: Justinian I , San Vitale (Ravenna). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
