CAPA 2015 Study Tour to China

By Tamar SchwartzApril 8, 2015 Announcements, China

Click Here to Read: Details of CAPA 2015 Study Tour to China.

Ancient Chinese Community Celebrates Its Jewish Roots, and Passover

By Tamar SchwartzApril 8, 2015 China

Click Here to Read: Ancient Chinese Community Celebrates Its Jewish Roots, and Passover By Becky Davis in The New York Times Sinosphere Blog on April 6, 2015.

Barnaby Yeh of the Sino-Judaic Institute leads morning prayers for Jewish descendants in Kaifeng.Credit Becky Davis/The New York Times

Patient, Therapist and Personal Boundaries

By Tamar SchwartzApril 7, 2015 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Patient, Therapist and Personal Boundaries Letters to the Editor of The New York Times on April 76, 2015.

Aggression, not just depression, led copilot to crash plane, experts say

By Tamar SchwartzApril 7, 2015 General News

Click Here to Read: Aggression, not just depression, led copilot to crash plane, experts say by Melissa Healey in the Los Angeles Times on April 5, 2015.

A memorial for victims of Germanwings Flight 9525 in Le Vernet, France. (Daniel Karmann / European Pressphoto Agency)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance

By Tamar SchwartzApril 7, 2015 Audio/Video, General News

Click Here to View: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO) on YouTube.

POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2015

By Tamar SchwartzApril 6, 2015 Poetry

Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks

This, as you all know, is Poetry Month, a time when many readers may, we always hope, at least glance through a book of poetry or even take one up to the cash register. It’s also a year when, looking back, we realize how many fine poets, well-known and lesser-known, we have lost recently – almost an entire “greatest generation.” Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2015

In Report on Rolling Stone, a Case Study in Failed Journalism

By Tamar SchwartzApril 6, 2015 General News

Click Here to Read: In Report on Rolling Stone, a Case Study in Failed Journalism By Jonathan Mahler in The New York Times on April 5, 2015.

The Holocaust’s long reach

By Tamar SchwartzApril 6, 2015 General News

Click Here to Read: The Holocaust’s long reach: Trauma is passed on to survivors’ children by Ian Brown in The Globe and Mail on April 3, 2015.

A revealing forum on “Politics and film criticism” at Mexican film festival

By Tamar SchwartzApril 6, 2015 Movies

Click Here to Read: A revealing forum on “Politics and film criticism” at Mexican film festival on the World Socialist Web Site on April 6, 2015.

The Reformation of Morris Dickstein

By Tamar SchwartzApril 6, 2015 Books

Click Here to Read: The Reformation of Morris Dickstein: For Author and Scholar, More Than One Way To Be Jewish on the Tablet Website on April 4, 2015.

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