Sister Maureen Fay, president emerita of the University of Detroit Mercy, died May 27, 2021. She served as president of UDM for 14 years, from its inception in 1990 to her retirement.
From Howard Zinn s People s History of the United States
Classic Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians
Hal Ashby s Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front.
From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country and failed. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.
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Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks at the UN in New York. (Shahar Azran/Israeli Mission to the UN)
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan took on the additional role of ambassador to the US on Thursday, replacing Ron Dermer, who held the position for the past seven years.
Erdan enters the post at a particularly sensitive point in the bilateral relationship between Israel and the US, which reached new heights during the presidency of Donald Trump.
US President Joe Biden, who took office Wednesday is widely believed to boast his own impressive pro-Israel bona fides, but where the liberal president and conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government diverge are on Iran and the Palestinians.
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The Israel Teachers Union officials announces a labor dispute over its call for its members to be being given priority in Israel’s national vaccination campaign.
The union says in a statement that if the issue is not resolved by January 12, it will suspend studies, including distance learning.
The secretary general of the union, Yaffa Ben-David, says: “If there are no vaccines, there will be no studies. We will not agree to abandon the health of the teaching staff.” I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But it s full of beauty and meaning.