by Carol A. Josel | May 16, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Quotable Quotes
Back in 1949, Mental Health America made May Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness and understanding. Attitudes have certainly changed/improved since then, but all is not well nowadays, not at all. Indeed, one headline after another speaks to our...
by Carol A. Josel | May 2, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Every May, Teacher Appreciation Week comes around, five days set aside once a year to recognize the work of educators. But is it enough? I mean, really… When the Pandemic hit, teachers were applauded for transitioning from in-person to remote teaching; everyone was...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 27, 2022 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Quotable Quotes
In Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, he tells about when, as a young Jewish concentration camp prisoner, he was taken from a concentration camp to sit at a dying German soldier’s bedside. He listens as the soldier confesses to helping herd hundreds of...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 26, 2022 | Articles, Quotable Quotes
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Winston Churchill, May 15, 2020 Holocaust Remembrance Day begins at sundown on April 27 and ends at nightfall on the 28th in recognition of the 6 million Jews who lost their lives—1-1/2 of them...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 21, 2022 | Articles, It’s a Fact
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” ~ Adolph Hitler, August 22, 1939 She said she came into this world barefooted and would leave it the same way. Handing her shoes to her grandson, she met her death with countless other Armenians at...
