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The Genius Of Bertell Ollman

February 9, 2025 – 2:36 pm

I’ve just gotten a job cataloguing the 10,0000-volume library of Professor Bertell Ollman, renowned Marxist scholar. The eighty-nine old has just retired from NYU. His loving son, Raoul Ollman has asked me to going through the books. I’m adapting the Evelyn Woods method of speed reading to the task. Search each book for a meaningful […]

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Not Sorry Yom Kippur

October 11, 2024 – 4:11 pm

More than three thousand years ago the Israelites emerged from their nomadic existence and established the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel. The Asssyrians and later the Babylonians depopulated the lands west of the River Jordan and the Romans completed the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah in two devastating wars and the Jews were set […]

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NOVEMBER 10, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

November 12, 2023 – 2:02 pm
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Palestine Peace Train

October 27, 2023 – 10:47 am

Back in the late 19th century European Jews sought a homeland to call their own. The obvious choice was Palestine with their historical ties to the Levant dating back the End of the Exodus and an existing community of 10,000 in Jerusalem and three other cities. By 1918 the Jewish population in Palestine had expanded […]

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Old Palestine

May 11, 2021 – 4:02 pm

Ancient Roman writers referred to Palestine as Syria Palaestina consisting of the lands between theMediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Jaffa was the entry port for the region. The population was made up of mostly Arabs and a smattering of Jews. Arab warriors protected Palestine from Bedouin raiders. Farmers raised olive trees and orchards on […]

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