Mystical Politics

(Originally published on Tuesday, April 25, 2006) Since today is Yom Ha-Shoah - the day of remembrance of the Holocaust - I thought I would ...

In Norm's excellent series, "Figures from a dark time," he has just posted about the fate of the Jews of Libau/Liepaja, Latvia...

The New York Times has just posted to its website a secret, 617-page report prepared by the Justice Department on how the U.S. government he...

I just came across a New York Times articl e published last year about new research being done at Yad Vashem on lesser-known killing fields ...

I just found another resource to research the Jews of Latvia - the Latvian Names Project . It is an attempt to do for all of the Jews of Lat...

A number of other people have made a similar journey to Liepaja to see where their ancestors lived. I just found a website created by Arturo...

I have just arrived (yesterday) in Tartu, Estonia, for a conference that begins on Sunday. I was in Israel from June 15 to July 21, and then...

I just arrived in Riga, Latvia, for the second part of my summer activities. I haven't been blogging very faithfully about being in Isra...

I was using Google Earth yesterday and found the city of Liepaja, Latvia - I was trying to find the street (Barena iela) that my grandfather...

While looking at some of the referrers to my blog, I came across the Welcome to Avaslan site. It was set up by Brian Friedman, who also has...