Don Waintraub

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Jan 11, 2020, 12:02 AM

Consider the tree

I. The fledging Jewish community in Palestine at the turn of the Twentieth Century had no shortage of challenges in establishing a State of their own. Brackish water, sweltering heat, and tribal conflicts made daily life undesirable. Malaria, however, was...

Jan 10, 2020, 11:53 PM

Dame Stephanie Shirley: From Tragedy to Triumph

“We waste too much time being afraid, when what we should really fear is wasting time”, Dame Stephanie Shirley wrote in her recent book Let It Go. Stephanie burst into the business world of London in the sixties by...

Jan 9, 2020, 10:03 PM

The Other Cold War

The United States has been on a collision course with Iran well before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. We often cite 1979 as a starting off point of hostilities because there is an easy event to wrap our minds...

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Author is an educator in the non-profit world. Volunteers his time leading tours at a variety of local Museums, including the Holocaust Museum.