who s got loads to say. it s thangam debbonaire, shadow leader of the house of commons. hello, hello, hello. and thank you so much for mentioning us in the house of commons last week. this is how it went. the leader famously once reassured this house that another prime minister wasn t hiding under a desk. words immortalised on the bbc s newscast intro. now i hear from the parliamentary press gallery reception news that she s a big fan of the podcasts. so, mr speaker, i ll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. is that where the prime minister really was on monday evening, hiding under a desk? so this is a great way for our politicians to get on the podcast. just name check us in parliament, put us in the historic record forever for historians to read about. and then you can come on. yeah, but i m the first, i was the first to put newscast in hansard and that was very exciting moment. i mean, if this starts an arms race, it will be amazing. who knows? bu
Daniel Finkelstein, probably best known for his political and football journalism in The Times, has now written a remarkable and deeply moving memoir about how his mother (a German Jew) and his father (a Polish Jew) somehow managed to survive the horrors inflicted by the Germans and the Russians during the Second World War. It is not a surprise that the BBC has chosen it as one of its Books of the Week. While written and published before the recent outbreak of shocking violence in the Middle East precipitated by the massacres carried out by Hamas, it nonetheless provides a relevant backdrop to and partial explanation of the reactions and responses both of individual Israelis and of the Israeli state. The book is a labour of love that pays well-deserved tribute not just to his parents but also to his grandparents who made their survival possible. That any of them survived when the majority of those around them did not was partly down to luck but mostly to a combination of bloody-minded
across europe in the build up and during the second world war, isn t there a bit where you get given a short audio clip of somebody turns out it s a dvd, not a cd, and its four hours long? a dvd of my dad. and if i hadn t had that, i don t think i d have been able to write this book because it told me so much detail about his experience in the state collective farm, his father s experience in the gulag. that was amazing. we didn t have very many records at home, by the way. we only had six. my father had no teenage years, so one of them was sooty and sweep i think that must have been mine. the other five, because he had no teenage years, he had very little music in the house in that way, which is odd, because he had loads and loads of books. tonnes and tonnes of books. he was a very cultured person. give us a potted sense, for people who are just coming across your book, about the extraordinary story that you are telling of the two sides of your family. absolutely so my mother wa
Rebecca Harhai | April 30, 2021
Natalie Wilson, research associate at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, recently wrote an article for Ohio Township News about Jewish burial in Southeast Ohio.
The article features information from a presentation made to the Southeast Ohio Natural Burial Working Group (SONBWG) by Dr. Alfred Weiner. A member of the SONBWG, Wilson works to educate and make natural burial an option for those around Athens County. Noting the similarities between natural burial and Jewish burial, Weiner, a clinical psychologist in Athens, agreed to give a presentation on the history of Jewish burial in Southeast Ohio.