(Zorastrian New Year) comes exactly one month before the liberation of Buchenwald. The date is especially important to me for two reasons. First, Nowruz has significance most Jews do not know about. When we went into exile in Babylon, the state religion of Babylon was Zorastrianism. Many as[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hugh Schwartz’
March 7th, 2014 - 8:47 pm § in Misc.
Paranoia and Guns: The Gun Disease Afflicts Wealthy New York Suburbs Too!
THE STORY IN WESTCHESTER I write a lot about South Carolina, the place where my sister has chosen to live. As a peaceful person, I find it difficult to imagine her choosing to live in a place where violence is celebrated to the point of the state government passing laws that encourage people to [...]
March 4th, 2014 - 10:25 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 25: Buchenwald Survivors as of 2013
Last year, 2013, Reuters photographer Lisi Niesner interviewed some of the remaining survivors as they returned to Buchenwald to mark the , 68 years later anniversary of the liberation. We are now one month from the anniversary of Robert Schwartz Entering the camp and my brother, Hugh Schwartz, s[...]
March 3rd, 2014 - 1:53 am § in Misc.
THE Ave: Who complained about our dawg?
Of Huskies, Owls and Family Feuds Last Fall Ana Mari Cauce, our Provost and a friend, asked me to remove our dog because someone had complained that the dog and W made this site look like a official UW site. I explained that TA’s dog was drawn (by me) to look like one I saw at […][...]
February 25th, 2014 - 11:23 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 24: Through the eyes of Margarette Bourke White
The great photographer Margaret Bourke White made the image when she arrived as a Life photographer with Patton for the official liberation, several days after the camp had been liberated by American soldiers including my father, the first medic to come to the aid of these prisoners. . This picture[...]
January 20th, 2014 - 4:54 am § in Misc.
Quantification 0f Sibling Rivalry
SIBLING VERBAL AB– USE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, HOSTILITY, SOMATIZATION, LIMBIC SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION, AND PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS Majed A. Ashy, Ph.D. (HarvardUniversity); John Kim (BostonUniversity) Abstract The first crime committed in history according to the world major religions occurred among sibli[...]
Seattle Times Editorial: Turns out the UW athletic department is not ‘self-sustaining’
How well does the UW Athletics Program serve the needs of Washington State kids interested in athletic careers? “To the extent that he thought about public colleges at all, it was only to revel in memories of 1969, when he captained the University of South Carolina football team” [...]