Every day the Auschwitz Memorial account reminds us of the horror of the Holocaust and the lives of young and old – Jew, gentile, communist, gypsy, gay, or resistant – snuffed out by the Nazis. And yet, as Brecht put it, 'The belly is still fertile, from which the foul beast sprang'.

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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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This is what a hero looks like. 🇮🇱 On September 30, 2026, as the Flydubai flight to Israel plunged toward disaster, Yaniv Hayun stepped up. Together with fellow passengers and crew, he helped overpower the attacker, then pulled back on the controls until another pilot took over. 📷 Kobi Gideon / GPO

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In a legal settlement, UC Berkeley offers a dance scholar a position it denied her because she's Israeli. forward.com/fast-forward...

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A topsy-turvy world now, as those who promoted fighting bigotry now become those who they fought. - Patrick Evans, Substack

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