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Happy Birthday shoutouts to Pinchas in Jerusalem and Ilana in Providence - may you live in good health til 120!
Last week's Giant Leap
questions stumped a lot of people; here's the answer: the first quote
is from the rabbi, the second from a non-Jewish journalist.
This week I learned about a remarkable Baltimorian named Avraham Lilienfeld, MD. His daughter and family (and many grandchildren) still live here.
Hopkins University memorializes Dr. Lilienfeld as a "hero of public health". They credit him with tranforming epidemiology "from a discipline limited to infectious diseases to one concerned with all diseases that afflict mankind."
(He was also an amazing, caring teacher, they say.)
What they would rather you not know is that Dr. Lilienfeld had been denied entry to Hopkins Medical School because he was Jewish.
Even though he grew up in Baltimore and earned his Bachelor's at Hopkins, the Medical School told him that they were very sorry, but they had filled their Jew-quota for the year.
When he heard that, he vowed, "I'll be back."
He kept that vow, and how.
You can read more of his amazing story here.
Speaking of advances in medicine, someone in the locker room today commented that Germany probably stunted the field by 100 years because they murdered three generations of brilliant minds.
Yet here's an "interesting fact" about German medical science.
Question for your table: is it truly interesting, and moreover, why?
The fact, courtesy the Atlantic, 2014:
Nazi Germany’s well-known obsession with creating a master Aryan race led to many atrocities. But from these same sinister motives came research that may have had health benefits for the German people during World War II — studies on the dangers of smoking that led to the most advanced anti-tobacco campaign of its time.
Question for your table: Why is this newsworthy?
After you elicit some answers, you might share the following:
- Some find it newsworthy that such an evil empire could display even a modicum of goodness.
(and therefore they'd rather not publicize it - why give them credit for anything and risk diminishing even slightly their evil?)
- Others find it newsworthy that a nation with such advanced thinking, science and culture could create such tremendous evil.
What do you think - newsworthy (and why or why not)?
Shabbat Shalom
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Happy Birthday shoutouts to Pinchas in Jerusalem and Ilana in Providence - may you live in good health til 120!
Last week's Giant Leap
questions stumped a lot of people; here's the answer: the first quote
is from the rabbi, the second from a non-Jewish journalist.This week I learned about a remarkable Baltimorian named Avraham Lilienfeld, MD. His daughter and family (and many grandchildren) still live here.
Hopkins University memorializes Dr. Lilienfeld as a "hero of public health". They credit him with tranforming epidemiology "from a discipline limited to infectious diseases to one concerned with all diseases that afflict mankind."
(He was also an amazing, caring teacher, they say.)
What they would rather you not know is that Dr. Lilienfeld had been denied entry to Hopkins Medical School because he was Jewish.
Even though he grew up in Baltimore and earned his Bachelor's at Hopkins, the Medical School told him that they were very sorry, but they had filled their Jew-quota for the year.
When he heard that, he vowed, "I'll be back."
He kept that vow, and how.
You can read more of his amazing story here.
Speaking of advances in medicine, someone in the locker room today commented that Germany probably stunted the field by 100 years because they murdered three generations of brilliant minds.
Yet here's an "interesting fact" about German medical science.
Question for your table: is it truly interesting, and moreover, why?
The fact, courtesy the Atlantic, 2014:
Nazi Germany’s well-known obsession with creating a master Aryan race led to many atrocities. But from these same sinister motives came research that may have had health benefits for the German people during World War II — studies on the dangers of smoking that led to the most advanced anti-tobacco campaign of its time.
Question for your table: Why is this newsworthy?
After you elicit some answers, you might share the following:
- Some find it newsworthy that such an evil empire could display even a modicum of goodness.
(and therefore they'd rather not publicize it - why give them credit for anything and risk diminishing even slightly their evil?)
- Others find it newsworthy that a nation with such advanced thinking, science and culture could create such tremendous evil.
What do you think - newsworthy (and why or why not)?
Shabbat Shalom
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