VIDEO: Women’s History Month featuring Professor Doron Ben-Atar
March 13, 2014
March is Women’s History Month. In this three-part mini-series, The Observer interviewed three Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) professors on the female figures who inspired them. This week, we feature Professor of History Doron Ben-Atar and his mother, 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar.
Ben-Atar and his mother co-wrote a book that was published in 2006, titled “What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust Together with Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar.” The Hebrew version is now available. Check back next week for Professor of Philosophy Babette Babich and her inspirational figure, feminist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.
Larry A. Singleton • Oct 16, 2014 at 6:49 pm
Sorry; “Women I admire”
….and Michelle Malkin, Anne Bayefsky, Joan Rivers and Judge Jeanine.
Larry A. Singleton • Oct 16, 2014 at 6:46 pm
Horowitz’s Indoctrination U. and The Professors should be required reading for all kids entering college. The following should be required reading in any “Women’s Studies”. Which, like Middle Eastern Studies, a university(Read Kramer’s Ivory Towers on Sand.), is probably the last place I’d probably go to study “Women’s” issues. However, I would probably make an exception in Ben-Atar’s case.
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers (Go to Amazon and read the Preface to this and the Introduction to “Taken Into Custody” by Stephen Baskerville; Your days of believing you live in a free country will disappear when you finish this book.)
Purple Heart’s Final Beat – A Soldier Suicide Story (You Tube video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_StCzStBy0
Which female figure inspires me? Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bat Ye-or, Caroline Glick, Brigitte Gabriel, Pamella Geller
I would have never gotten into this (Israel) issue had I not read two books almost back to back; The Haj by Leon Uris and Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel.
By an incredible stroke of luck I found a copy of Nathan Ausubel’s huge hardback volume of The Book of Jewish Knowledge behind an abandoned house. I didn’t know what a prize I had until I got his book of Jewish Folklore.
You know what? I knew that wasn’t true the moment “it came out of my mouth”. I knew this book was special when I read the part about the “Arabic-Jewish ‘Golden Age'” and “Traditional Family Relations” and how he described “Husbands and Wives”: “A man must not make a woman weep for God counts her tears”.
This is the book that helps me when it comes to comparisons with Islam and Muslims.
Peter kiernan • Mar 23, 2014 at 10:32 pm
Such a fine and inspirationonal clip. Doron has given us a beautiful portrait of his strong mother Roma and we are all uplifted. We’ll done Fordham.