Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Mark Schulte http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:41:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The School Dr. Meister Built: Bronx Science at 75 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-school-dr-meister-built-bronx-science-at-75/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-school-dr-meister-built-bronx-science-at-75/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:52:55 +0000 Mark Schulte http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=119506 “The School Dr. Meister Built: Bronx Science at 75” “Eastern European Jews showed almost from the beginning of their arrival in this country [in the 1880’s] a passion for education that was unique in American history.”         Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/buchenwald-liberation-myths-1945-2013/feed/ 0 Doing justice to the liberators of North African Jewry http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/liberators-of-north-african-and-middle-eastern-jewry/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/liberators-of-north-african-and-middle-eastern-jewry/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:58:06 +0000 Mark Schulte http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=91100 Lyn Julius, the co-founder of a United Kingdom-based organization that preserves the rich history of the vanished Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa, recently published an op-ed article on The Times of Israel website about the 50th anniversary of the forced exodus of the venerable Jewish community of Algeria. “How Algeria Lost [...]

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