Burgundy & the Four Great Dukes of the West
Rogier Van der Weyden’s only surviving miniature depicts Duke Philip the Good & his son Charles (the future ‘Charles the Bold’) receiving the […]
Category: history
Gauguin: exoticization, primitivism & paganism
“‘Gauguin: Metamorphoses,’ which opens on Friday at MoMA in New York, recasts the artist as an altogether darker figure, closer to Edvard […]
Jerusalem Day 2014
May 28 is ‘Jerusalem Day’ (Hebrew: יום ירושלים, Yom Yerushalayim), “an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment […]
Norsk
Norsk II (Norwegian II) – Våren 2018 (Spring 2018) 1 Fjerde leksjon Session Four God kveld og velkommen til fjerde time! Good […]
Pauline Park testimony on transgendered APIs
ISSUES OF TRANSGENDERED ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS By Pauline Park, co-founder, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy and John Manzon-Santos, […]
Palestinian recognition of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state
By Pauline Park I find one of the most frustrating aspects of the Zionist discourse through which we discuss the Israeli occupation […]
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama & the sad reality of symbolic victories
“A ‘Madame President’ would be a much-needed literal and symbolic victory for women across the country who are fed up with the […]
Holocaust Memorial Day 2014: Buchenwald, Dachau, the US Army, Israel, Palestine
Holocaust Memorial Day 2014: Buchenwald, Dachau, the US Army, Israel, Palestine By Pauline Park On Holocaust Memorial Day 2014, I remember my […]
Avraham Stern, Menachim Begin & the founding of the state of Israel
Avraham Stern, Menachim Begin & the founding of the state of Israel Avraham Stern’s death in British custody did nothing to end […]
Henry VII & the Tudors on TV
Henry VII & the Tudors on TV I just discovered “The Shadow of the Tower,” the 1972 ‘prequel’ to “The Six Wives […]
Obama, LBJ & Presidential Legacies
Obama, LBJ & Presidential Legacies “Disappointed liberals, conservative critics and ordinary citizens who remember the candidate of 2008 have asked that question […]
Israel & the Ottoman expulsion of Jews from Palestine in 1917
Israel & the Ottoman expulsion of Jews from Palestine in 1917 Ahmed Jemal Pasha on the banks of the Dead Sea “April […]