by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2011 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics, Shoah, Wars, Women
by Roger Cohen in the NYTimes From the Jewish Virtual Library: Latvian: Žagare, Polish: ?agory, Yiddish: Zhagar – Noted personalities born in Žagar? include R. Israel Salanter (Head of the Mussar movement), Senior Sachs, Raphael Nathan Rabbinovicz, the...
by Pier Marton | Nov 11, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, Care, Death, France, Highlights, Jewish, Middle-East, Podcasts(F), Poet, Politics
La poésie pour la douleur extrême… (voir aussi, ci-dessous, autour de “Tombé hors du temps”) Sur France Culture/Hors-Champs – autres interviews – Autour d’ “Une femme fuyant l’annonce” Au Musée d’Histoire et...
by Pier Marton | Nov 7, 2011 | Books, Death, Health, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Media, Politics, Quotes, Spectacle, Time, Wars, Women
And in his own words: We’re all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don’t make any big ones. People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. Yes, we praise women over 40 for a...
by Pier Marton | Nov 7, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Sound, Spectacle, Wars, Women
Operation Proper Exit as presented on CBS’s 60 Minutes With some thoughts by the producer Henry Schuster : We like to divide the world up. It’s only natural to think in terms of us v them. Right now, in the public discourse, it seems to be all about the...
by Pier Marton | Nov 2, 2011 | Art, Human Rights, Politics
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by Pier Marton | Nov 2, 2011 | Politics
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. … The only problem: the people who would have...