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  • "I'd organize hell." Saul Alinksy. 
    Alinsky, Saul (San Francisco Bay Area Television archive, 2011-09-25)
    KPIX-TV documentary film from 1966 about the American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky. Features extended interviews with Alinksy at his home in Carmel, California on wide ranging issues such as poverty, injustice, ...
  • Ideas: Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals 
    Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals (Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, 2019)
    "The Website provides information about the Institute, as well as an online store where you may order books of interest. The section Min haMuvhar includes selections from the writings of Rabbi Marc D. Angel, Founder and ...
  • Illness as Metaphor 
    Sontag, Susan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978)
    In this short book (downloaded from the Internet Archive, Susan Sontag looks at how we conceptualize serious illnesses, particularly tuberculosis in the 19th century and cancer in the 20th century. "Illness as Metaphor" ...
  • The Importance of Being Neil Diamond 
    Fong-Torres, Ben (Rolling Stone, 1976-09-23)
    A biographical portrait from the 1970s of Neil Diamond, a successful and influential songwriter and performer whose career has extended into the 2020s. Click on the link above to access this article brimming with the ...
  • In Selma, sold-out yarmulkes and Shabbat behind bars 
    Friedman, Gabe (Jewish Telgraphic Agency (Archive), 2015-01-17)
    This article, from the archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency discusses the role of Jews in the bloody marches in Selma, Alabama in 1965, to press for voting rights for African Americans. Jewish organizations, as well ...
  • In the Coen brothers’ punishing world, morals are everything 
    Robinson, Tasha (The Dissolve, 2014-01-09)
    This article argues that a common theme underlying the Coen Brothers' work is a fierce, uncompromising morality. Click on the link to read the article.
  • In the decade since The Wire, David Simon has produced TV that matters 
    Murray, Noel (AV Club, 2020)
    A biographical essay on David Simon's substantial contributions to quality television during the the 2000s. Click on the link above to read the article.
  • In the Picture: A new biography of Diane Arbus. 
    Lane, Anthony (The New Yorker, 2016-06-06)
    Review of “Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer,” by Arthur Lubow (Ecco). Includes a portrait of Arbus. Click on the link above to access the review.
  • The Increasing Returns Revolution in Trade and Geography 
    Krugman, Paul (Nobelprize.org, 2008-12-08)
    The Nobel Prize lecture by Paul Krugman on the occasion of accepting the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Click on the icon to access the pdf copy of the lecture.
  • The Increasing Returns Revolution in Trade and Geography (Nobel Prize Lecture) 
    Krugman, Paul (nobelprize.org, 2008)
    Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize Lecture delivered on 8 December 2008 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. In it he discusses the ides that led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Click on the link above to ...
  • Inflation and Unemployement 
    Friedman, Milton (NobelPrize.org, 1976-12-13)
    Milton Friedman's Nobel Prize Lecture available here in pdf form. Click on the link below to access.
  • Information and the Change of the Paradigm in Economics 
    Stiglitz, Joseph E. (NobelPrize.org, 2001-12-08)
    Joseph Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. He shared the prize with George Al Akelof and Michael Spence. Their research for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize focused on the interrelationship between ...
  • Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals 
    Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals (jewishideas.org, 2020)
    "The Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals offers a vision of Orthodox Judaism that is intellectually sound, spiritually compelling, and emotionally satisfying. Based on an unwavering commitment to the Torah tradition and ...
  • Interview: Barbara Frum 
    McManus, Mike (TVO, 2010-03-29)
    An interview with journalist Barbara Frum by Mike McManus of TV Ontario (TVO), in which she discusses her attitudes towards journalism. Click on the link above to access the interview.
  • Interview: Steve Reich 
    Joseph, Anne (The Jewish Chronicle, 2011-07-21)
    An article based on an interview with Steve Reich in which the "man described as America’s greatest living composer reveals how Judaism sparked some of his best work." Click on the link above to access the article.
  • An Introduction to the Study of Language 
    Bloomfield, Leonard (Henry Holt and Company (digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from the University of Toronto), 1914)
    An early work by the noted linguist, Leonard Bloomfield. Click on the icon below to access a pdf version of the book.
  • Ira Glass: American radio and television host 
    Augustyn, Adam (Encylopedia Britannica, 2020-06-29)
    This article is about radio and television host Ira Glass, best known for his program on National Public Radio (NPR), "This American Life." The program was honored with several Peabody awards and the Pulitzer Prize in ...
  • Irving Berlin 
    Brody, Seymour (Jewish Virtual Library, 2017)
    Short biography of the noted songwriter, Irving Berlin. Click on the link above to access the biography.
  • Irving Berlin 
    Songwriters Hall of Fame (Songwriters Hall of Fame, 2017)
    Biographical essay about the significance of the work of Irving Berlin to American music. Berlin was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. At the end of the essay are links to Berlin's musical compositions, ...
  • Irving Berlin "God Bless America" - The Ed Sullivan Show 
    Berlin, Irving (Youtube, 2009-09-29)
    A Youtube video of Irving Berlin singing his composition, "God Bless America," on the Ed Sullivan Show on May 5, 1968. Click on the link above to access the Youtube video.

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