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In Commentary in April 2007, Charles Murray, the coauthor of The Bell Curve (1994), again claimed that "Jews are smarter" than everyone else (Murray, 2007). In The Bell Curve, he and his late (and Jewish) coauthor, Richard Herrnstein, presented the argument "Ashkenazic Jews of European origins, " test higher than any other ethnic group (Murray and Herrnstein, 1994). Jews in America and Britain have an overall IQ mean somewhere between a half a...

In July 1939, 500 Jewish children were sent from Germany to Sweden in a joint project organized by the World Zionist Organization and the Stockholm Jewish Community. Some of these children came to Hälsinggården, near Falun, to learn farming and agriculture, in preparation for their future work in Palestine. World War II broke out two months after their arrival, and the children remained in Sweden as temporary residents until 1945. In the sprin...

Herb Levy began writing poetry in high school inspired, in part, by the poetry then being read at coffeehouses. His undergraduate degree is in English. That exposed him to some of the greatest poets writing in the English language. Some of the poetry he wrote in college was an exercise in learning the value of the many forms of poetry. He returned to free verse, as it is the clearest expression of his voice. Roughly thirty years ago, his poetr...

This book examines the Harmony And Resonance Of Qur'an And Torah, the Three Unique Abrahamic Religions, Why Jesus Was A Rabbi, A Prophet, A Messiah, But Not The Son Of God, Divine Names In Torah, Gospel and Qur'an: Past and Future, Jewish Views of Prophet Muhammad As An Abrahamic Prophet, Prophets in Judaism and Islam and How Allah Chooses Them, Why Jewish Views Of Heaven And Hell Are So Different, and the Two Sacred Sites Powered By Brotherly...

In this book, Anna Banasiak discovers the mysteries of human nature. The poet reveals lights and shadows of Love from spiritual and sensual sense of view. The depth of feelings and subtle eroticism can draw the readers in.In this book, Mariko Sumikura paints, with lyrical mastery, a poetic journey through sorrow, saddness and passion. The poet immerses herself in the ocean of life exploring the space and touching the most beautiful and moving ...

After Jews become citizens in modern nations in 19th century Europe, changes occur in philanthropic practices. France, the first nation to grant full citizenship to its Jewish population, formed government administrative centers (consistories) to administer the government. In Jewish quarters this administrative agency became the Alliance Israélite Universelle. This organization served Jewish betterment, not only in France but internationally. ...

The American Joint Distribution Center, founded during World War 1, sought those Jews in Soviet Russia, who were now deprived of their civil rights. Jewish trades did not comport with Soviet Trades. To achieve civil rights, the Joint organized Jewish collective Farms (150, 000 farmers) and established trade schools to teach acceptable trades.

Thoughts for the Week, short sermons, delivered to the members of the Progressive Synagogue in Dublin, 2020-2022, by their Rabbi Emeritus, Rabbi Dr. Charles Middleburgh.

In Modern Midrash, Professor Schept combines her knowledge of psychological theory with her extensive reading of Jewish sacred texts to present fresh insights that invigorate a centuries-old scholarly conversation with contemporary feminine sensibilities. In her analysis of Jacob¿s Dream of a ladder, the unconscious mind presents a drama of family tensions and sexuality for Freud, but the psychic energy of transformational change for Jung. App...

Chameleon¿s Fever is a unique poetry book of creativity and creation. The title evokes the state of fever of things, astonishment, poetic pondering that lead to Aristotle katharsis. The author refers to the crisis of culture and tries to rebuild value of word and being based on poetic sensitivity and metaphysics. Metaphor serves as self-understanding and transformation of things to live a better conscious life." (Anna Banasiak)

¿Miscelanea is a collection of poems touching the most important matters. Passing, death, love, longing for beauty are costumed in new props revealing the truth of being.¿ (Anna Banasiak) ¿Anna Banasiak¿s poetry has caught the eye for its subtle and exquisite imagery and is a talent we hopefully will get to know more of in the coming years ahead.¿ (William Willis) ¿Very descriptive poem. A great metaphor, the soul and the birds both soaring wi...

The book "Bitter Mojito" discovers the mysteries of human nature. It reveals lights and shadows of Love from spiritual and sensual sense of view. Bitter Mojito shows how deep love can be when we only stay as we are. "Anna Banasiak's poetry has caught the eye for its subtle and exquisite imagery and is a talent we hopefully will get to know more of in the coming years ahead." (William Willis)"Anna Banasiak's poetry is very deep and full of soul...

Although contemporary Arab culture recognized the phenomenon of prejudice, suffered from it, and confronted it, we were not innocent of prejudice. We were like a person who sees a hair in the eyes of other people but does not see the log in his own eye. In this work, we deal with the phenomenon of prejudice against Judaism among a group of contemporary writers, for reasons easy to discover. Although I fully understood the causes of prejudice a...

The poems you hold in your hand embody the intersection of spiritual practice and creative process. They arose from simple day-by-day awareness, cultivated over a 49-day period through the ages-old practice of counting the "Omer." In ancient times an Omer of barley, a sheaf, was brought to the Jerusalem Temple just after the start of the Passover observance. The priest was to wave the sheaf and to count each of the 49 days between the Israelit...

Rabbi Lewis was deployed to Vietnam as an Army chaplain from 1970 to 1971 to be present with Jewish personnel in the Central Highlands. Serving men and women drafted into a morally fraught war with increasing protest back home, he tried to bring a listening ear and the comfort of Jewish tradition to lonely and conflicted people. Fifty years later, from letters sent home, he retells and relives the drama and agony of serving in that era. What o...

Shlomo Liberman is a Second-Generation Holocaust survivor who grew up in Sweden. The book is trying to come to grips with his parents' silence in sharing their memories from the Holocaust. Lost Memories centers on childhood memories-sifting through family albums not understanding who the people in the pictures were-finding a picture of an unknown mother and child, searching for answers, and stumbling upon the reason his father was on one of th...

This slim volume is a collection of vignettes, musings and meditations on current and past events that have impacted the author. The essays in this collection are reflections of an approximated reality, an attempt at teasing out lessons and thoughts, unraveling and sorting out reactions to events that have in some way helped shape this writer's life. Some of these contemplations revolve around memories, some long-buried, others blurred and occ...

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress-a period like our own. Americans today have little trust in government, household incomes lag behind our usual middle-class expectations. The fires of fear in America have long found oxygen when broad, seemingly threatening change is afoot.

Secular ethics, presents a framework to choose the right from wrong. There is also a framework for ethical dilemmas. From our secular world, there are four main ethical approaches: utilitarianism, rights and responsibilities, theories of justice, caring. Unfortunately, academic literature created a "fog" level because there were so many possible exceptions to these theories of philosophy that the philosophers continued to clarify their clarifi...

This book represents a combination of Judaica and self-help, and reflects the growing area of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. Empirical evidence has developed showing this approach is effective in treating cancer patients and those suffering from PTSD. This book contains selected stories from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (aka the Breslover Rebbe) that have psycho-spiritual implications for personal growth and enhancement to accompanying each...