Dan Friedman

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Dan Friedman

Adam Oyebanji mixes sci-fi and mystery in his new novel

1 month ago | higheredjobs.com | Dan Friedman

In our efforts to better understand people -- especially students -- it's natural for scholars and practitioners to turn to theory. Theory helps us find patterns, make predictions, and give meaning to what we observe. As we note in our book, "From Educational Experiment to Standard Bearer," it is important to design our courses and programs for the students we have, rather than those we think we have or those we desire.

2 months ago | forward.com | Dan Friedman

One road to Auschwitz ran through a small garage in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania. In June, 1941, local nationalists surrounded and murdered about 50 Jewish men and left their bodies out in the street while crowds watched. Lithuanian nationalists, meaning people we might today call "extremists," deliberately came to beat their neighbors to death with iron crowbars.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Dan Friedman

The Blogs: When God Was Silent: Yom HaShoah and October 7thYom HaShoah, which falls this Thursday, is not merely a date on the Jewish calendar. It is a sacred rupture in time—a moment when the collective soul …

2 months ago | forward.com | Dan Friedman

Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, MailerBy David DenbyHenry Holt, 40o pages, $32When Lytton Strachey wrote his Eminent Victorians in 1918, the Victorian period was clearly finished. Queen Victoria herself had died in 1901 and when one looked back at her reign from beyond World War I's killing fields of Ypres and the Somme, the distinguishing features of the 19th century already felt like history. The four folks he wrote about were long dead. The era was gone.