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On the Run From the Nazis, Taking Train After Train Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, author of “The Passenger.”Credit...via Leo Baeck Institute New York By Michael Hofmann THE PASSENGER Translated by Philip Boehm Sometimes an author’s story and the story of the author’s fate jump up to greet us simultaneously, and we don’t know which has more power to move us. Especially when both, in a sense, are outlines — rushed, unfinished or barely finished sketches. Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, a young writer and Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, drowned in 1942 when the ocean liner MV Abosso was ...

Adina Bresge Travellers wearing safety goggles, protective face masks and rain ponchos are seen heading to the international departure gates at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C. on March 18, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward March 11, 2021 - 1:00 AM From packing up their desks alongside laid-off co-workers to getting word that a surgery would be delayed, many Canadians can pinpoint the moment last year when they realized everything was about to change. For a newcomer to Canada, it was the empty shelves at the grocery store that reminded her ...

It's been exactly one year since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic....

Breaking Bad, Fargo, Black Mirror) is up for a role. Here are some character details: Artie is a lead, Latinx, or Native American man in his 20s to early 30s. An L.A. native, he works in the electronics department of a major retail store. He’s described as genuine, insightful, and “clutch”. Winston Claes is a supporting character 55-70, with open ethnicity. Winston is a Fine Art Photographer whose career-long obsession for perfection has led him to the edge of a dull and unsatisfying end to his career. He radiates succinct weather-beaten insight of a lovably gruff unwilling mentor. Wins...

CRISIS AS A PERMANENT SITUATION What are our chances to see the end of the world economic crisis in our lifetime? Not very great, since it has become a permanent situation that one has to get used to. (For example, this is what TV reality shows are supposed to train us for.) The post-modern ideology relativizes everything, equalizing all values and, by deconstructing the present as well as the past, prepares us all for a post-human – or posthumous – future. Meanwhile we are being incessantly told that peace and stability should be our ultimate goals. In this context, “stability” – a...