A Virtual Project Connects Visitors to Holocaust Survivors and Their Stories

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 30, 2017June 29, 2018 Oral History

Click Here to Read: A Virtual Project Connects Visitors to Holocaust Survivors and Their Stories: New Dimensions in Testimony invites visitors to the Museum of Jewish Heritage to have a virtual conversation with a Holocaust survivor by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on October 26, 2017,

796 Irish Children Vanished. Why

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 30, 2017June 29, 2018 Audio/Video

Click Here to View: 796 Irish Children Vanished. Why? By Kassie Bracken on the New York Times website on October 30, 2017.

Movies Monday: Wonderstruck

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 30, 2017June 29, 2018 Movies Monday

Click Here to Read: Wonderstruck: How Todd Haynes Builds Bridges Out From Lonely Worlds by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on October 26, 2017.

Click Here to Read: Wonderstruck Reviewed by Christy Lemire on the RogerEbert website on October 20, 2017.

Click Here to Read: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life By Manhola Dargis in The New YorK Times on October 19, 2017. Continue reading Movies Monday: Wonderstruck

The Sickening Cost of Lenin’s Revolution

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 29, 2017June 29, 2018 Books

Click Here to Read: The Sickening Cost of Lenin’s Revolution: Victor Sebestyen’s engaging ‘Lenin’ and Anne Applebaum’s meticulous ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ help explain why a century later the central amorality of the unfulfilled Utopian ideal is still with us By David Mikics

Why Do American Jews Idealize Soviet Communism?

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 29, 2017June 29, 2018 General News

Click Here to Read: Why Do American Jews Idealize Soviet Communism?: Perpetuating the romance of the Bolshevik regime, whose ‘good intentions’ cannot mask the horrors imposed in its name By Ruth R. Wisse on the Tablet Website on October 22, 2017.

The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 29, 2017June 29, 2018 General News

Click Here to Read: The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea: On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation? By Evan Osnos in The New Yorker Magazine in the September 18, 2017 Issue.

In Lithuania, ‘Most Important Find Since Dead Sea Scrolls’

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 29, 2017June 29, 2018 Books

Click Here to Read: In Lithuania, ‘Most Important Find Since Dead Sea Scrolls’ Inside the incredible discovery of Jewish documents By Kate Seamons on the Newser Staff om October 28, 2017.

Voice-Only Communication Enhances Empathic Accuracy

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 29, 2017June 29, 2018 General News

Click Here to Read: Voice-Only Communication Enhances Empathic Accuracy by Michael W. Kraus in the American Psychologist 2017, Vol. 72, No. 7, 644–654.

JerusaLand: An Insignificant Death by Nathan Szajnberg

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 28, 2017June 29, 2018 Books

Click Here to Read: JerusaLand: An Insignificant Death By Nathan Szajnberg on Amazon.

Click Here to Read: JerusaLand: An Insignificant Death By Nathan Szajnberg on Audible.

Sigmund Freud on the cover of Time magazine

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 28, 2017June 29, 2018 Books

Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. The accompanying article inside the magazine begins by informing the reader that two new translations of Sigmund Freud’s work could now be found on U. S. bookstalls; these being ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle‘ and ‘Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego,’ and could be purchased for $1.50 and $2.00 respectively. From the Psychology Blog website.