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Arthur L Finkle
In the past one hundred years, a medical miracle occurred in the United States. Death in Childhood Is No Longer Expected. Health progress in the 20th century resulted from the…
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The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 infected 33% of the world's population. There were no effective treatments and no widespread efforts to prevent the spread. There are some comparisons to…
Jewish farming in New Jersey, part of the experiment to return Jews to the land, represents more than 100-organized experiments during the Great Migration (1881-1914). Most of its successes are…
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The long history of anti-Semitism began religious anti-Semitism between Judaism and The Early Church after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Thus, religious discrimination varied through the…
In Commentary in April 2007, Charles Murray, the coauthor of The Bell Curve (1994), again claimed that "Jews are smarter" than everyone else (Murray, 2007). In The Bell Curve, he…
The American Society of Civil Engineers 2016 economic study (Failure to Act: Closing the Infrastructure Investment Gap for America’s Economic Future) predicted that America’s infrastructure investment gap was $3.9 trillion…
Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress-a period like our own. Americans today have little trust…
American efforts to restrict immigration from 1850’s to the xenophobic US Immigration Act of 1923, which essentially stopped Immigration the US until post World War II. The reader sees the…
An account of a small industrial city, Trenton, that became a haven for immigrating Jews (German Jews in the 1850’s; and the Russian, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian Jews in 1881-1914)…
