admin | May 5, 2020
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected a teachers claims of race, ethnicity and religion discrimination under federal and state law, finding that his termination was legitimately based on his teaching anti-Semitic views to his students.
admin | May 5, 2020
One got out of Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport train to Sweden, never again seeing his parents, who were exterminated in the death camps. One survived two notorious concentration camps, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and was discovered by British troops on a pile of bodies, half-dead with typhus
admin | May 5, 2020
A squall over the contents of the Gove familys bookshelves sent me reeling back to two formative experiences about free speech and its near cousin, freedom of reading. They hail from contrasting ends of the ideological spectrum. The first was studying in the old East Germany, where taking a work by Orwell or Nietzsche out of the university library became a complicated ritual of applications to the Poison Cupboard, where writers deemed too dangerous forgeneral consumption were kept.
admin | May 5, 2020
After reading news from around the world, as I try to do before breakfast every day, and before I hunkered down, late on Monday, to resume working on a book-length manuscript, I searched the hollows of my mind (which is pretty empty to begin with) for something to write about that has nothing to do with the dreaded pandemic. There had to be something.
admin | May 5, 2020
The neo-Nazi group, National Socialist Movement, that had scheduled a rally in Williamsport for April before it was canceled has requested another date to gather in Brandon Park. "We are planning to be in Ulysses on July 17 and Williamsport on July 18," Burt Colucci, NSM "commander," confirmed on Friday. "Mayor Slaughter has not given us an approval or denial on the permit application as of yet for Williamsport.
admin | May 5, 2020
May 1, 2020 | 1:07 p.m. The 805 Homeless Helpers was founded by Santa Barbara teens, Asher and Miles Sedlin, when their mother saw that many of the organizations that normally look after the homeless had to shut down due to COVID -19
admin | May 5, 2020
Pittsburgh city attorneys have filed a motion to appeal a judge's order striking down three gun control ordinances passed following a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018. The Associated Press reported Monday that court documents, filed last week, argue that state law does not expresslysay that cities do not have the authority to pass their own gun control ordinances.
admin | May 5, 2020
Remember when we used to go to shul, Mommy?
admin | May 5, 2020
handout The recurring talk show sparked accusations of sexism.
admin | May 5, 2020
One hundred years ago last month, the leaders of a handful of powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera.
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