US Holocaust Memorial Museum Newsletter on Education

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 19, 2020August 19, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Pencils, Books, and Dirty Looks: Memories of Jewish Schoolchildren During the Holocaust US Holocaust Museum September 28, 2018.
Click Here to View: Teaching in Extraordinary Times United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was May 6.
Click Here to View: Oath and Opposition: Education under the Third Reich.
Click Here to Read: Inspiration from the Kovno Ghetto US Holocaust Museum Apr 1 · 4.
Click Here to Read: An Unbreakable Will to Learn on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
Click Here to Read: Remembering When we Belonged: Ayub carries the knowledge of what life was like before the persecution of the Rohingya began.

Co-opt & Corrupt: How Trump Bent and Broke the GOP

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2020August 17, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Co-opt & Corrupt: How Trump Bent and Broke the GOP by Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the New York Review of Books Daily website on August 12, 2020.
Click Here to Read: About Ruth Ben-Ghiat and this article in the New York Review of Books Daily in their newsletter by Matt Seaton Editor, NYR Daily.

‘The house was on fire.’ Top Chinese virologist on how China and U.S. have met the pandemic

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: ‘The house was on fire.’ Top Chinese virologist on how China and U.S. have met the pandemic By Jon Cohen on the AAAS Science website on May. 22, 2020.
Image: Pharexia (original author); Ratherous, AKS471883 (contributors); authors of File:BlankMap-World.svg (source file)Map of COVID-19 infected countries and territories in the world. Public Domain via Wikimedia COmmons.

‘Holy Silence’ Documents the Vatican’s Role in the Holocaust

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 15, 2020August 15, 2020 Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: ‘Holy Silence’ Documents the Vatican’s Role in the Holocaust By Gerri Miller on the Jewish Journal website on August 14, 2020.

Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale: A startling investigation into how a cheap, well-known drug became a political football in the midst of a pandemic by Norman Doidge on the Tablet Magazine website on August 14, 2020.
A simple ball and stick representation of an uncharged molecule of hydroxychloroquine. Image: Jovan Gec Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Night of the Murdered Poets

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 12, 2020August 12, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Night of the Murdered Poets: Rokhl’s Golden City: This week in 1952, five Yiddish poets were executed in the Soviet Union. How have their deaths been framed since then? by Rokhol Kafrissen on the Tablet website on August 14, 2019.
Alter Kacyzne, Peretz Markish, Moyshe Broderzon. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Twists of fate made Nagasaki a target 75 years ago

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 10, 2020August 10, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Twists of fate made Nagasaki a target 75 years ago: The Japanese port was not the U.S’s. first choice for a nuclear attack in August 1945, but shifting circumstances and last-minute choices doomed the city by Amy Briggs on the National Geographic Website on August 5, 2020. Atomic cloud over Nagasaki from Koyagi-jima Image: Hiromichi Matsuda (松田弘道, ?-1969) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.