Upcoming Programs Beyond the Myth of the Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014 | 7pm
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The shtetl was home to two-thirds of Eastern Europe’s Jews in the 18th and 19th centuries. But today it is vastly misunderstood. Join Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern to discuss his new, pathbreaking study of life in the shtetl based on previously untapped archival sources. Read more… Continue reading YIVO News and Events
Click here to Read: Men are NOT from Mars after all: Scientist claims male and female brains are the same and it’s gender stereotyping which makes us different by emily Kent Smith on the Mail Online website on March 8, 2014.
Neuroscientist Gina Rippon, a professor at Ashton University, said this week that she believes gender differences are caused by society stereotypes. She said that gender differences have no scientific grounding
Click Here to Read: Germany refuses Xi Jinping’s request to visit Holocaust memorial sites during tour of Europe Beijing wanted trip to be part of Xi’s itinerary this month Patrick Boehler in South China Morning Post News on March 05, 2014.
A man walks through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin’s largest Holocaust memorial. China had requested to include a visit to the memorial in President Xi Jinping’s (inset) visit to Germany this month. Photo: Reuters
Click Here to Read: ‘Particle Fever,’ a terrific documentary, demonstrates that science is the most human of activities. By Peter Rainer in the Christian Science Monitor on March 7, 2014.]
A worker at CERN, the particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, stands beneath the Large Hadron Collider. CERN/BOND Strategy and Influence
