And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
Ha. Ha. Ha anti semitism may not be new to the United States it is more i see this story. But in recent years the american consciousness has been pierced by anti semitic threats and violence. Was. Played up in 2017 the us saw an unprecedented surge and antisemitic incidents. The same year hundreds of neo nazis converged in the streets of Charlottesville Virginia primary of paranoia and you know theyre now in. The following year a white supremacist stormed pittsburghs tree of life synagogue in what became the deadliest anti semitic attack and u. S. History. And in 2001006 people were killed and nearly a dozen wounded in a spate of high profile anti semitic attacks across the country. In this episode of thought violence week salman this trending violence against Jewish Americans. And the anti semitic conspiracy theories that often inspired the. Morning feinberg is the founder of 2 for center an interfaith addition to the combats anti semitism in hate speech so this is my. Mother in laws
2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The mayor recently had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals. Rival candidates take aim at mayor pete. They dont have to go shake the money tree in the wine cave. I have never even before to a wine cave. Im literally the only person on this stage whos not a millionaire or a billionaire. Reporter republicans accusing democrats of getting cold front after nancy pelosi says shes waiting to send the impeachment articles democrats are too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the senate. Reporter a deadly explosion rocked south philadelphia. More than 100 firefighters battled the flames that raged for hours. It could have been a lot worse. Were hoping it doesnt get any worse. Reporter police in rhode island are looking for the motive in a deadly shooting at a housing complex for the elderly and disabled. Reporter police have released disturbing video of a woman getting purse snatched, then dragged b
Of the Trump Administrations muslim ban, i would like to welcome the members of t the subcommittee and oversight and investigations to this hearing. We are happy to be working on this important issue with you all today. Id also like to thank all of the majorityminority members in staff of both subcommittees for coordination and flexibility while planning this joint hearing particularly given the cancellation of yesterdays vote, i want to note that because of the cancellation not every member is able to be here today, but i did make a point of talking to mr. Columns and mr. Buck to be assure that they would be okay with proceeding and they assured me that they were since mr. Bigg and zeldon will be here, we do appreciate that flexibility and our opportunity to learn more and to probe issues about this matter. I really do think the hearing in many ways is overdue for 2 and a half years the administration has been allowed to arbitrarily ban from predominantly muslim countries and no overs
texas-oklahoma. are have you ever been to ocktoberfest, done it in germany? pete: have you? will: yes, i have done that. what is it like? it is a ball. it is rachel: was there more drinking than last night? will: very similar. it is, you go to a huge tent and, there is just people everywhere you stand. no seats. you stand at a table. you get to know people, strangers, it s a day event. you know, so it is drawn over long period of time. the mugs are gigantic. pete: yep. will: get a bruise, get a bruise underneath the knuckle, all day long you re lifting this. rachel: exercise. will: it is stereotypical of what they call them? maids? pete: as you see it in the movies. will: it really is. she comes out i don t know how many mugs. they are gigantic, she has a way of carrying them. it is so fun. rachel: how is the food? will: germany is not my favorite food. we re going to have some food out here. will: this is going to be excellent i m sure. pete: i ve been to a beer hall i