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Don King (R) speaks with Sheldon Adelson before the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on September 26, 2016. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

The Library of Congress made available today a 20,000-item online collection of Sigmund Freud’s personal papers (search it here and here), everything from correspondence (letters, postcards) with his family and colleagues, to lecture notes and oil portraits of the psychoanalyst, and seemingly everything in between. From the announcement:

The Library of Congress made available today the a 20,000-item deep online collection personal papers (search it here and here), everything from correspondences (letters, postcards) with his members of his family and colleagues, to lecture notes and oil portraits of the psychoanalyst, and seemingly everything in between. From the announcement:

“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

So wrote Elie Wiesel in his Holocaust novel, Night. And last Sunday evening, his words rang across a dimmed, crowded auditorium in lower Manhattan during a star-studded reading of Wiesel’s magnum opus. The five-hour public reading, which was also live-streamed online, was part of the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s tribute to Wiesel for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Wiesel was an honorary chairman of the board of the... Читать дальше...

In the years 1943-44, as a soldier in the American Army, I spent time in what was then officially called Mandatory Palestine, the area mandated by the League of Nations to the British after World War I. Most Europeans just called it Palestine. The Jews who had settled there called it Land of Israel. The Arabs who lived there preferred Palestine or, for some of them, Southern Syria. I knew nothing of this and cared less. I was a correspondent for Yank, the Army weekly magazine and, although I am sure it was not its intent... Читать дальше...

The Mexican-Israeli conflict began on Twitter and ended with a phone call between two heads of state.

Think tanks are odd institutions. Experts solemnly line up, often to defend a specific political or economic cause, and whether they represent the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution, and no matter how fine the expert, his or her findings will, most likely, be in line with the ideological leanings of the institution. From the Carnegie Foundation’s mission to “hasten the abolition of international war,” to the Brookings Institution’s focus on studying the federal government, each was... Читать дальше...

After an “emotional” and special Knesset hearing, The Jewish Agency worked out a deal with the Israeli government that enables a group of nine Jewish Venezuelans entry into the country, representing a reversal on a decision to bar their immigration earlier in January.