Click Here to Read: Cruelty & Perversity: Postprandial Reflections on the PEN Protesters The grim satire of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ controversy, in context By Paul Berman on the Tablet Website May 26, 2015.
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Veggie burgers in 1930s Vilna – a Jewish chef ahead of her time
Click Here to Read: Veggie burgers in 1930s Vilna – a Jewish chef ahead of her time: Decades before vegetarianism became trendy, Fania Lewando cooked up a non-meat storm in her restaurant, attracting such diners as Marc Chagall. The Yiddish cookbook she wrote nearly vanished. Now it can be read in English By Ofer Aderet on the Haaretz wesite on May 26, 2015,
Lewando in her successful vegetarian restaurant in Vilna in the 1930s. Photo by Courtesy of the family of Fania Lewando
Freud and Fareed: Does the Austrian neurologist have what it takes to survive in Pakistan?
One Man’s Millions Turn a Community Around in Florida
Click Here to Read: One Man’s Millions Turn a Community Around in Florida by Lizette Alvarez in The New York Times on May 25, 2015.
Harris Rosen visited a day care center for 3- and 4-year-olds in Tangelo Park, Fla., part of the education initiative he has spent the last two decades financing.CreditMelissa Lyttle for The New York Time
While at War, Female Soldiers Fight to Belong
The Huxley File
An Evening Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Theresienstadt
Click Here to Read: An Evening Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Theresienstadt program at Zankel Hall Description by Batya Monder.
Click Here to Read: Remarks by Judith Goldstein at An Evening Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Theresienstadt program at Zankel Hall.
The Shrink is In
Hebrew inscriptions, jewels of Palmyra’s Jewish past, may be lost forever
Click Here to Read: Hebrew inscriptions, jewels of Palmyra’s Jewish past, may be lost forever: With Islamic State now in control, fears grow for archaeological gems that point to the ancient city’s resonant Jewish history by Ilan Ben Zion in The Times of Israel on May 25, 2015.
The Islamic State flag raised on top of Palmyra castle, May 22, 2015. (Photo credit: The website of Islamic State militants via AP)
