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What Terrible Things Are You Capable Of?
Of Mice and Men: Ben Labe explains what lessons we can learn from graphic novel ‘Maus.’ The graphic novel Maus is a Holocaust story; in particular, the story of a Jewish Holocaust survivor named...
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Holocaust Survivor Uses Social Media to Search For Twin
With the help of social networking sites, Menachem Bodner is hoping to be reunited with the twin he hasn’t seen since they were liberated from Auschwitz, 68 years ago. 72-year-old Menachem Bodner has...
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Writing in the First World
In response to the execution of Iranian poet and activist Hashem Shaabani, Poetry Editor Charlie Bondhus reflects on privilege, writing, and poetry’s function as a tool of social change. — Writing in...
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My Research Is My Therapy
Warren Blumenfeld takes us on a person journey of self realization and social awareness. We can all learn from his Research Therapy. ––– While contemplating the topic and eventual focus of my doctoral...
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Trump as ‘Home-Grown Demagogue’: A Personal Reflection
Embed from Getty Images President Barack Obama, in his moving and brilliantly-crafted address at the Democratic National Convention, not-so-subtly called out Donald Trump and the danger that Trumpism...
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Safety Pins and the Meaning of Life
Embed from Getty Images EDITOR’S NOTE: “No one can look long at the sun or death,” La Rochefoucauld wrote. That includes me. I could say that politics is right up there with the sun and death, and...
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Persecution: Instead of an Email
Persecution for Robert Pinsky Author’s Note: Persecution is a poetic sequence that is an outcome of my communication with Robert Pinsky. This poetic sequence of three poems, namely “Instead of an...
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Man’s Search for Meaning
Embed from Getty Images I’m off to California to atone with my brother and my 100-year-old mother. I welcome the opportunity for self-examination. I respond to the ritual. And it gives my mother...
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Reflections of a U.S. Jew in Poland
Professor Warren Blumenfeld writes of how the dynamic and palpable tension of history still exists today. “If the Jew did not exist, the Anti-Semite would invent [them].” -Jean Paul Sartre,...
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