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Today’s Jewish birthday: Ben Shahn
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (175+ words) Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. [Wikipedia] He is best known for his…...
Today’s Jewish birthday: Ben Zion Orgad
3+ week, 2+ day ago (106+ words) Ben-Zion Orgad (August 21, 1926- April 28, 2006) was an Israeli composer. His family emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933, where he started violin lessons in 1936. [Wikipedia] His family emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933, where he started violin lessons in 1936 From 1942 until 1946, Orgad studied violin…...
Today’s Jewish birthday: Shlomo Bentin
2+ week, 4+ day ago (110+ words) Shlomo Bentin (August 26, 1946 – July 13, 2012) was an Israeli neuropsychologist and recipient of the 2012 Israel Prize in psychology. Bentin was a professor of psychology and education and a member of the Center for Neural Computation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [Wikipedia]…...
How did I not see this book before about cuisine in world history?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (308+ words) Cuisine & Empire, Cooking in World History by Rachel Laudan; University of California Press, 2013, paperback, 2015. By Oliver B. Pollak in Richmond, California I have enjoyed at least 57 national cuisines with multiple regional permutations, eaten Bouillabaisse, Cioppino, and Mohinga in their countries of…...
Today’s Jewish birthday: Rose Heilbron
3+ week, 4+ day ago (204+ words) Rose Heilbron (August 19, 1914 – December 8, 2005) was a British barrister who served later as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the…...
Glitches in a New York Times political column
3+ week, 4+ day ago (404+ words) by Bruce S. Ticker Nate Cohn, chief political analyst for The New York Times, strained to define the term “progressive” in an analysis on Monday that consumed almost half a page of newsprint. He identified two kinds of progressives, initially, and…...
Today’s Jewish birthday: Israel Gelfand
1+ week, 4+ day ago (118+ words) Israel Gelfand (September 2, 1913 – October 5, 2009) was a prominent Soviet and American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, biologist, teacher and organizer of mathematical education. He made significant contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory…...
Satire: The name game revisited
2+ week, 1+ day ago (149+ words) By Laurie Baron in San Diego Then he decided that he’s such a connoisseur of the fine arts that the Kennedy Center should be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center. After Federal courts rejected this change, he appointed his lackies to the…...
Today’s Jewish birthday: Zalman Schachter
3+ week, 6+ day ago (146+ words) Zalman Schachter (August 17, 1924 – July 3, 2014) was an American rabbi, writer, and activist, and one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecumenical dialogue. [Wikipedia] Born in Poland, Schachter-Shalomi was raised an Orthodox Jew in a variety…...
After Auschwitz – San Diego Jewish World
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (143+ words) By Sam Ben-Meir in New York City to write poetry after Auschwitz is obscene– but what he meant was that it is inexcusable to write poetry as though Auschwitz never happened, as though we could go on as before, as…...