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Describes motivation process for creativity with emphasis on intrinsic motivation by Corey K Katir

by Rebecca Alpert and Katherine Franke (originally published in Tikkun Magazine) This week we were scheduled to speak at the Constitution Center as part of the Equality Forumas 2012 LGBT Summit. Instead we, a rabbi and a law professor, have withdrawn our appearances at the event, disturbed that the Equality Forum, a major mainstream gay [...]

Professor Katherine Franke, Director, Columbia Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Joins Academic Boycott of Israeli-Government Sponsored Conference New York, May 4, 2012aResponding to the call from a wide coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations and joining more than 700 U.S. academics who support a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, Katherine Franke will [...]

Miss out on the The Ethics of Pinkwashing: LGBT Rights in Israel/Palestine” Panel? Click below to watch the video featuring Professors Katherine Franke, Kendall Thomas, and Vani Natarajan, Humanities and Area Studies Librarian, Barnard College. They visited Israel and Palestine in January, 2012 as part of the first LGBTQ delegation to the West Bank, and [...]

On July 4, 1910, the Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, TX) reported Jack Johnson’s fifteenth round victory over James Jeffries. “Johnson slipped off his robe… An American flag circled his belt.” “Jeffries is attired in short blue trunks, with an American flag around his belt.” Reporting on what has since been called the fight of the century, the paper’s final comment leading to coverage of the fight: “It was agreed men would not shake hands.” …. Read more about it!

Describing fanfare and salutes in June 1909, the Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, TX) reported on the opening ceremonies of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington. Background for the event, technological innovations, layout of the grounds, and more are included in the article. To open the fair, “the amphitheatre was electrically connected with the telegraph room of the White House and President Taft pressed the button…that started the wheels in machinery hall…” Read more about it!

Describing the Wright Brothers’ first airplane flight in Kitty Hawk, NC, the Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, TX) declares “Ohio Boys Have Solved a Big Mechanical Problem.” The article goes on to describe the successful trial in the face of heavy winds… Read more about it!

On Sept. 13, 1993, current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and current Israeli President Shimon Peres signed at the While House the so-called Oslo Accords, ushering in a new era and hopes of peace in the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The…

The Palestinian support group for the United Nations bid to gain statehood recognition announced Saturday a series of activities that would reach a peak when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23.

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