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The Holocaust and the Question: Who Has the Right to Forgive on Behalf of Another?

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...

Part I: Do We Have the Right to Speak for a Victim and Forgive the Perpetrator?

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...

Biden, Our First President to Call the Deaths of Some 1.2 Million Armenians a Genocide

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...

Earth Day ’22 and a Call to Keep Cleaning Up

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 18, 2022 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact

   It’s a big deal, a very big deal that has now tied together the environment, climate change, even diet all under the Earth Day umbrella and its 3Rs, reduce, reuse, recycle. Just this week came Time Magazine’s “Earth, Inc.” and Nutrition Action’s “The Planet Lover’s...

The Antidote For These Tough Times, 11-Year-Old Role Model, Orion Jean

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 7, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, Making News

  As the headlines lurch from one crisis to another, nothing seems right. We fret, we argue, we even end friendships over a difference of opinion, exemplifying the new normal. Even advertising nowadays has a look that ruffles feathers, and I don’t mean just those that...

For Better Recall and Grades, What Really Works: Hand-Written or Keyboarded Notes?

by Carol A. Josel | Mar 13, 2022 | Academics, Articles, Carol A Josel, Parenting, Research Results

      Devices rule. Students nowadays shuffle down crowded hallways, eyes glued to mobiles as they make their way to class and pile in, thumbs still tapping away. Settling in, they reach into bookbags, but, instead of a textbook and notebook, Chromebooks land on their...
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