Spring 2014 Events at Leo Baeck Institute

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 19, 2014 Announcements, Books, Movies

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Spring 2014 Events at Leo Baeck Institute

LBI is proud to announce a diverse and exciting program of events through May 2014, which begins on Thursday, March 27th with a screening of Free Fall. This documentary is by acclaimed director Péter Forgács and explores the Holocaust in southern Hungary. Additionally, on Sunday, March 30th, LBI will hold the Continue reading Spring 2014 Events at Leo Baeck Institute

Head Start: Executive summary (2012): The Poor Results

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 15, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Head Start Research: Third Grade Follow-up to the Head Start Impact Study. OPRE Report 2012-45 October 2012.

Here is the pessimistic executive summary of the Federal Governments three-part assessment of outcome in Head Start:

“[T]here was little evidence of systematic differences in children’s elementary school experiences through 3rd grade, between children provided access to Head Start and their counterparts in the control group.” Continue reading

Sheba and Solomon’s Return

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 14, 2014 Audio/Video, Books

Click Here to View: Sheba and Solomon’s Return on YouTube. Description of Nathan Szajnberg’s book Sheba and Solomon’s Return: Ethiopian Children in Israel describes the children of Ethiopian Jewish Emmingrants in Israel.

Instructor’s novel being developed for the big screen

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2014 Books, Movies

Click Here to Read: Instructor’s novel being developed for the big screen by Katelyn Hilsenbeck on the Advocate Website on March 13, 2014.

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Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death by Norman Staker

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Review of Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment. By Norman Straker, Reviewed by Leah Rosenberg, MD and D. P. Yuppa, MD in The Journal of Palliative Medicine Volume 17, Number 4, 2014.

How to Destroy Species, Including Us

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2014 Books, Science News

Click Here to Read: How to Destroy Species, Including Us, Review of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, Reviewed by Verlyn Klinkenborg in the New York Review of Books in the March 20, 2014 issue.
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As Denzel Washington opens ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ on Broadway, Ellen Handler Spitz’ ‘Illuminating Childhood’ explores the play’s significance

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2014 Books, Plays

Click Here to Read: As Denzel Washington opens ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ on Broadway, Ellen Handler Spitz’ ‘Illuminating Childhood’ explores the play’s significance by Shalin Manning on the University of Michigan Press website on March 6, 2014.

Freud and the Seduction Theory

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 8, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Freud and the Seduction Theory A challenge to the foundations of psychoanalysis by Jeffrey M. Masson in The Atlantic Monthly on February 1984.

The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 8, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage, Reviw of Flags Of Our Fathers by James Bradley, Reviewed By Janet Maslin in The New York Times on November 18, 2009.

Sex, secrets, and self-mortification: the dark side of the confessional

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 6, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Sex, secrets, and self-mortification: the dark side of the confessional A review of The Dark Box, by John Cornwell. Reviewed by Thomas W. Hodgkinson on the Spectator website on March 1, 2014.