Last month, Maus, the first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, authored by cartoonist Art Spiegelman, was removed from a school’s curriculum by the McMinn County (Tennessee) School Board. To add insult to injury, this book ban occurred as the world was preparing to mark I…
Just when you think we are coming back to our pre-COVID lives, Omicron hits us, and hits us hard. Who could have imagined that just 30 days ago the Chatham County Transmission Index of 111 would go to 2,715 (the number of newly confirmed cases in the last 14 days per 100,000). We thought …
This week I couldn’t help reflecting on a famous Groucho Marx quote when he resigned from the Friar’s Club, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
On Saturday, I woke up with a stuffy nose, but with our ever-changing weather, I put it off…
On Tuesday, Jamie Richman came in to discuss one of the programs that the Savannah Jewish Federation organizes: Idenifying and sponsoring a local teacher to attend the Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers Summer program, a two+ week seminar for teachers with educational activities in Pola…
