Sandra Alfonsi, at The Blogs

Feb 28, 2022, 1:03 AM

Me, Earl and the Dying Girl. A Novel by Jesse Andrews

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Jesse Andrews is the author of what the New York Times has called the best-selling novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Abrams Books, 2012. He has also written the feature-film adaptation...

Feb 20, 2022, 9:19 PM

Tennessee and “How to Torture a Jew”

There has been much media about an incident in Chattanooga, TN where a Jewish woman said that her daughter was taught “how to torture a Jew” in a public school Bible class. Juniper Russo first wrote about it in...

Feb 17, 2022, 10:30 PM

The Battle over Maus and the Teaching of Holocaust Literature

On January 10th, a McMinn County, Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove from its curriculum Maus, Art Spiegelman’s book about his father’s Holocaust experience. During a board meeting, educators explained that although Maus was an “anchor text” for...

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Born, raised and educated in Washington, DC, I hold a BA, MA and PhD. I am a university professor and also Senior Academic Fellow for 2 non-profit organizations Truth in Textbooks and Proclaiming Justice to the Nations. As such, I review and correct textbooks in the areas of Judaism as a World Religion; the Shoah; the History of Israel from Biblical Times to the present; anti-Semitism and terrorism. I worked as Assistant to the previous Director of the Martef HaShoah. I am a member of the National Board of Hadassah. I belong to Yedidya, a modern Orthodox synagogue in Bak'a. I made Aliyah on September 6, 2018.