BRONX JEWISH CENTER  Hosts Community Dinner       Please join us for our next community Shabbat dinner on Friday June 4th starting  at 7:00 pm  at  the Bronx Jewish Center located at 1969 Haight  Avenue ,Bx NY 10461. . The B J […]

Julia Ward Howe (1819) An American author and social reformer, Howe wrote and lectured on behalf of women’s suffrage, African-American emancipation, and other causes and helped found a world peace organization. In November 1861, after watching Union troops march into battle during the US Civil War, she wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” her most famous work. Published in February 1862 in The Atlantic Monthly, it became the semiofficial song of the Union Army. Where did the music for the song come from? More…

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother. Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

stealthy Definition: (adjective) Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed. Synonyms: furtive, surreptitious, sneaky Usage: Jane thought she was being stealthy as she sneaked in past curfew, but her mother heard the door creak as soon as it opened. Discuss.

Street Co-Naming Ceremony for Beatrice ‘BEA’ Castiglia Catullo By Robert Press It was a bright sunny Saturday morning at the corner of Morris Park Avenue and Matthews Avenue, where there was a new street sign to be added under the […]

In response to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)’s revised Mask Guidance for Vaccinated Persons, the NYSNA Board of Directors released the following statement:   The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) continues to strongly support a mandatory mask […]

Special Forces Shift Target   U.S. special forces have protected America and entranced observers of military affairs for decades. Their exploits have fascinated the public in books, movies, and television series. The target of these extraordinary warriors has generally been […]

MAYOR DE BLASIO, L+M DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS & TYPE A PROJECTS BREAK GROUND AT BRONX POINT AND THE UNIVERSAL HIP HOP MUSEUM Hip Hop legend Nas, LL Cool J, Fat Joe, Lil Kim Borough President Diaz, city agencies and hip hop […]

Helen Brooke Taussig (1898) Now regarded as the founder of pediatric cardiology, Taussig was an American physician who, among other things, revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of “blue babies,” babies whose heart malformations cause low blood oxygen content. She pioneered the use of fluoroscopy to identify defects in the heart and great vessels and devised a surgical treatment with Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas that saved thousands of infants. She also helped block the approval of what dangerous drug in the US? More…

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

compensable Definition: (adjective) Being such as to entitle or warrant compensation. Synonyms: remunerative, paying, salaried, stipendiary Usage: Once I traded my unpaid internship for a compensable job, I was able to move out of my parents’ house into a place of my own. Discuss.