Survivor fights Amazon’s sale of Holocaust items
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For Holocaust survivor Peter Kubicek, 83, the thought of Amazon selling Nazi-themed items makes him sick to this stomach. He’s taking his protest straight to...
View Article‘Daniel Pearl Day’ not always respected by media
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I have always felt so sad for Danny Pearl and his family for the tragic way in which he was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan. Everyone knows the story by now, and...
View ArticleNew Nevil Shute needed to warn about climate change
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Remember a popular novel from the 1950s titled On The Beach by the British-Australian writer Nevil Shute? His real name was Nevil Shute Norway, but he used a pen...
View ArticleCli-Fi is an emerging literary genre
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When we read novels or short fiction in any language, we read to understand the story. We read to learn something new, and hopefully to get some kind of emotional...
View ArticleOn Eastover or Passter, do they roll matzoh balls?
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Interfaith humor is not so much ribald as it is refreshing and inclusive, inviting people of different faiths to smile or chuckle in a friendly way across the aisles...
View ArticleClimate change more than a p-r opp, Mr. President
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –On Earth Day 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama, who I voted for — twice — issued a White House proclamation that I’d like to comment on this way as both a literary...
View ArticlePaul Revere of ‘Cli-Fi’ tells how he got on his horse
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –It’s not every day that Time magazine recognizes what a lone word coiner in Taiwan has done by coming up with a new literary genre term dubbed “cli fi” by yours truly....
View Article‘Cli-fi’ reframes the debate on changing environm’t
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — It’s not every day I get mail from a rabbi, but every once in a while it happens and I love it. It just so happens today I got mail from both a rabbi in Britain and a...
View ArticleCleveland novelist probes climate issues
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Richard Friedman, an Ohio man who uses some of his free time to pen warnings about climate change issues, is the author of a novel, Escape from Canamith, and while...
View ArticleNoted science writer captures life on Earth
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Diane Ackerman is the author of a new non-fiction book, set to be published by Norton Books this fall, in which she delves into an important cultural awakening...
View Article‘Cliffies’ will award climate-change movies
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Hollywood has a calendar full of movie and TV awards shows, from the Oscars to the Golden Globes, and with a dozen other awards on tap as well. There’s even the...
View ArticleRabbi, lawyer seek to end ‘ecocide’
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When Rabbi Jeffrey Newman in the UK — Emeritus Rabbi at the Finchley Reform Synagogue — shoots you an email from his office in England and it lands in your inbox with...
View Article‘Cli-fi’ class to be taught at University of Oregon
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — A native of Massachusetts, Stephen Siperstein is part of a national wake-up call about climate change studies and he is set to teach a course in the winter semester...
View ArticleA cli fi book for children
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Take a team of writers in Brooklyn and give them a small yet important assignment: Write an illustrated children’s book about global warming and climate change and...
View ArticleTales of a trial lawyer who never gives up
And Give Up Showbiz: How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco, Avoided Two Murder Prosecutions, Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing Manager of the Year & Transformed American Law’ by Josh Young By Dan...
View ArticleSome Yiddish understood the world over
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –If people make the world go round, words make the world go round, too. I mention this today because there’s an Indian gentleman named Anu Garg who now lives in America...
View ArticleBen Bradlee gave job seeker a pep talk
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When a funeral was recently held in Washington for the late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, his wife Sally Quinn arranged a traditional Episcopal service at the...
View ArticleAwards given for movies on climate change
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Hollywood director Darren Aronofsky has been awarded a best original screenplay award for his movie Noah by an online, climate-themed movie awards program I am...
View Article‘Interstellar’ finds a deep divide on Earth
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Is there a Jewish view of the new movie Interstellar and the themes that director Christopher Nolan tapped into? I’m not a movie critic, and I’m not a rabbi, but...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ warns of climate disaster
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Aaron Sorkin, the Hollywood ace scriptwriter for movies and television — “The West Wing,” “The Social Network” and the current HBO hit series “The Newsroom” — grew up...
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