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Joel Freedman

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II'

Daniel James Brown’s “Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II” is about tough challenges faced by Japanese...

21.05.2024 30

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: New York needs to crack down on substandard puppy mills

18.05.2024 20

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Saving Simon'

In the spring of 2011, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz received a phone call from an animal control officer. During an investigation, she...

23.04.2024 20

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: Our endangered lakes — preserving them should be a sacred trust and honor

The Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association, in response to a significant outbreak of harmful cyanobacterial algal blooms in Canandaigua Lake last...

13.04.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions'

As in her book “Dead Man Walking,” “The Death of Innocents” is Sister Helen Prejean’s account of accompanying two condemned death row...

09.04.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons From Bold Women'

Who could have predicted that when Nikki Haley’s parents met the challenges of immigrating from India to the United States that one of their...

26.03.2024 20

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: "Of Time and Turtles'

In her introduction to Samantha Glen’s “Best Friends: The True Story of the World’s Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary,” Mary Tyler Moore wrote,...

13.03.2024 8

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: Thoughts on the teaching of history

In considering the overall good quality of history courses at two-year and upper-level colleges in the State University of New York system, I would...

09.03.2024 5

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: "The Other Wes Moore"

By the end of his fourth day as a plebe at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pa., Wes Moore had run away four times. Sgt. Austin, Moore’s...

27.02.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: Ethical issues in biology education, research

When students at a high school Participation In Government class were asked to invite outside speakers to discuss controversial issues, I accepted the...

17.02.2024 6

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'When Truth Is All You Have'

In his highly readable and spellbinding memoir, Jim McCloskey describes his first assignment as a chaplain at New Jersey’s Trenton State Prison,...

12.02.2024 10

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Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Happiest Man on Earth'

When Eddie Jaku was an inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, he suffered from the effects of beatings, slave labor, malnutrition, freezing weather...

29.01.2024 20

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: King: A Life

“King: A Life” is a highly readable and engrossing account of the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and of the moral and spiritual...

15.01.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: Thoughts on transgender controversies

I agree with John Murtari and a previous Finger Lakes Times column of his that schoolchildren need to be protected from harmful transgender policies....

14.01.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Outside The Game: A Collection of Inspirational Stories'

Jim Mandelaro’s story “Bobby Greco: A Passion for the Game” looks at the life of Geneva resident Bobby Greco, who was born with a rare...

02.01.2024 4

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'A Higher Call'

Four days before Christmas 1943, the lives of two pilots — one American, the other German — would be changed forever during a brief encounter in...

19.12.2023 30

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'A Matter of Honor'

By the end of November 1941, military decoding experts in the U.S. had broken Japan’s secret codes and intercepted communications that a Japanese...

07.12.2023 5

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

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