When you showed the beginning of the musical-movie, “Fiddler on the Roof” I was happy because that is one of the nicer stories about the Jewish people portrayed in movies. It is also the stereotypical movie people affiliate Jews with and there is not a negative thing about that. Yes bad things happen in the […]
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Most books about the Holocaust speak of the negatives with the horror of all the people killed during that time. There aren’t many books with positive stories except the few about survivors. While there were many more people killed during the Holocaust, there were lots of survivors. The book I read was “Defiance: the Bielski
Pro athletes shouldn’t have a salary cap. There isn’t a salary cap in Major League baseball. The contracts are also guaranteed. That if you go over the exceed amount you have to pay a luxury tax and only the rich owners and teams with all the money have to deal with the rest of teams
George Castle has written 13 books and has been a sports journalist for the Times of Northwest Indiana being the beat the reporter for the Chicago Cubs. Most of his books have been about the Cubs or baseball or general sports history. He also is the historian for the Chicago Baseball Museum and been a
When Brian Tuohy spoke to the class he opened my eyes to seeing that in professional sports there is fixing games and that it no one in America monitors betting in this country but they do it in Europe. That college sports are the easiest sport to fix. Between 2004-2008 a survey of 19000 student
It became official on Monday that Joe Maddon was introduced as the new manager of the Chicago Cubs. There was lots of praise for this but also lots of hate or uneasiness as the Cubs already had a manager who was already under contract, Rick Renteria. Maddon is clearly the best manager to never
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Jews in both Western and Eastern Europe experienced a time of flourishing without persecution and living during peaceful times with the government who presided over each European country. The only real disagreement was between the Jews themselves with regard to their religion as with many things taking place at that time. This time it was
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Jews lived in ancient Middle East for many years after Biblical times ended. They then entered the land of Israel with the prophet Joshua. They lived there through two temple destructions. They lived in Israel even as the Greeks and Romans ruled over them, but the Babylonians and Persians took them out of the land
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He talks about the racial slur of the NFL team in Washington other teams with similar names towards Native Americans. He gave of examples in humor way of how he thinks it’s stupid how other people say it’s ok a few from the group have the problem and he makes name of other minorities. He
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The New York Giants again fell to 0-2 after blowing a fourth quarter lead against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. After leading 14-13 with 11 minutes left, the Giants gave up 12 unanswered points to lose 25-14. Despite the Cardinals being without their starting Quarterback Carson Palmer because of a shoulder injury, and that their
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