Michael and Paula Mantell: Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle
How can one have a healthier and more meaningful lifestyle at any age? The former psychologist Dr. Michael Mantell and his wife, Paula Mantell, both in their mid 60’s, have found an answer. Mantell,...
Litvaks Didn’t Suffer Enough to Deserve Lithuanian Citizenship?
Lithuanian officials state that Jews were not oppressed in Lithuania:
In an astonishing display regarding the ignorance of rampant anti-Semitism in inter-war Lithuania, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius stated that there was “no violence, repressions...
Pinpointing A Cause Of Student Problems Today
My good friend, Martin Hardeman, Associate Professor of American History at Eastern Illinois University, was expressing frustration about his students during a telephone conversation we were having. He was discussing how his students use...
Remembering a Woman Who Helped Yiddish Flourish in Mexico City
In 1945, a young girl from Brooklyn fell in love with a Mexican Jew and decided to leave it all to go to Mexico City. Little did she know her strong Yiddish upbringing would...
Losing Control Over Oneself To One’s Selfies
Selfies are all the rage in today’s modern technological society. It has become so easy, so effortless to take pictures of oneself in all sorts of situations with different people in different surroundings, reacting...
A closer look at Jewish identity in Israel and the U.S.
Nearly all Jews in the United States and Israel say they are proud to be Jewish, and large majorities in both countries say they feel a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. But...
Cuny Under The Antisemitism Microscope 2016
The poster on the door of the Hillel at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reads “Safe Zone.” Above it hangs an Israeli flag, an American flag and another sign: “Israel wants peace.”
Take two...
IRC/Kaiser Community Garden
It is not easy leaving your home and moving to a new country as an immigrant or refugee. Many immigrants and refugees’ lives are shattered by political or religious conflict and they have to...
How to save thousands… and lose millions when producing your annual Sales Kickoff event
If you've been to an annual Sales Kick Off, you know just how much money is spent on these lavish productions - and that's before I calculate the indirect costs of having your top revenue...
Legendary Jewish Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Meets a Tragic End
There is tragic irony in the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death on March 19 of American Jewish Civil Rights photographer Bob Adelman. An ongoing police investigation will attempt to explain how Adelson, 85, was...