By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS Being bullied in school is like wearing prison stripes that you cannot escape in this social media world, despite one's successes. Barely a week after Taylor Swift released her new Midnights album to record sales, a former classmate of hers from Hendersonville High School…

By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS Sketch of Theodor Herzl, Bonnie K. Goodman, 2022, graphite and charcoal on paper 9 x 12. On this day in history… August 29–31, 1897, Theodor Herzl convenes the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, the first secular meeting about creating a Jewish state. [1] …

The Latest Paradigm Shift in Judaism towards Secularism? An examination of the religious views of Jews in the United States versus Israel By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS (The research of this essay is based on a doctoral proposal research I have been working on since 2018 entitled, “Good Jewish Citizens: Israel or Zionist Education the Key to Saving North American Jewish identity.” …

By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS Last week I found an interesting and surprisingly relevant headline in the Inside Higher Education newsletter, “Science’s Women Ghostwriters.” The article discussed that women in science, which can be applied to every area of academia, “are ‘systematically’ denied credit for their work,” which the…

By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS “I have never heard of you or your book. Nobody stole anything.” This was the response I had on Facebook from a male author, journalist, and lecturer to my calling him out for liberally borrowing from my published research without any citations or attributions…

By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS On this day in history, June 13, 1877, Jewish banker Joseph Seligman was denied from staying at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York because he was “an Israelite.” …

By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS In academia, there is a code of honor about not attributing ideas, citing, and plagiarizing authors. Teachers teach students the academic and career consequences of plagiarizing work that belongs to someone else. Professor of Law & Political Theory at the University of Kent Davina…

Some might want to deny it, but antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry — Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS President Joe Biden wanted to upgrade the US State Department’s Special Envoy for Combating and Monitoring Anti-Semitism to an ambassadorship. In July, Biden nominated Emory University professor and esteemed Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. Unfortunately, for Biden, the Senate must confirm her position. However, Republicans…

Some might want to deny it, but antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry — Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS Considering the feelings from the outside world, the political and religious divisions among Jews in the United States, Canada, the rest of the Diaspora to Israel, and even among Israelis are even more troubling. In May 2021, the Pew Research Center released an updated…