Click Here to Read: Dying, With Nothing to Say By Katie Roiphe in The New York Times on March 19, 2016.
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Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1916: Einstein’s Relativity Theory Is Submitted for Publication: As a consequence of Einstein’s work, it became clear (well, clear to some scientists, at least) that time and space comprise a single continuum David B. Green March 20, 2016.
Click Here to Read: Without Albert Einstein, We’d All Be Lost: Do you like your GPS? Thank his general theory of relativity, an astonishing feat of the human mind By Robert Dijkgraafin the Wall Street Journal on November 5, 2015. Continue reading Einstein’s Relativity Theory Is Submitted for Publication
Click Here to Read: A New Hong Kong Museum Confronts the Difficult History of Chinese Contemporary Art (Part 1) by Ellen Pearlman on the HyperAllergic Website on March 18, 2016.
Liu Heung Shing, “1989 Beijing, Sending Wounded Students on Tian’anmen Square to Hospital” (1989) (image courtesy M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, courtesy the artist and West Kowloon Cultural District Authority)
Click Here to Read: ‘Living in hell’: mentally ill people in Indonesia chained and confined: Lack of mental health care and community support leaves nearly 19,000 Indonesians vulnerable to outlawed practice, finds Human Rights Watch by Sam Jones on the Guardian website on March 20, 2016.
Residents at a rehabilitation centre for mentally ill people in Galuh, Indonesia. Shackling was banned in the country in 1977, but the practice remains widespread. Photograph: Andreas Star Reese/Human Rights Watch
Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1940: Theologian Who Marched With Martin Luther King Arrives in U.S.: ‘Can you tell me if the atomic bomb is kosher?’ Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel interrupted a debate on kashrut by David B. Green on the Haaretz on March 20, 2016.
Heschel (second from right) in the March 21, 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama with civil rights and labor leaders. Martin Luther King Jr. is fourth from the right.
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