Articles by Samuel Freedman

Selected Articles by Samuel G. Freedman

Culture >> Education >> Jewish Interest >> Politics >> Media >>9/11

CULTURE

December 27, 2005: What's really behind the 'anti-Exodus'

October 26, 2005: August Wilson & the Jews

Spring 2005: Philip Roth and the Great American Nightmare

March 30, 2005: A Teacher Sees Herself Younger, and on Broadway

Dec 28, 2004: An Artist Talked and a World Listens

Nov 27, 2004: Finding History (and Wild Rice and George Foreman Grills) Under a Rock

Oct. 6, 2004:School Codifies a Literary Form That Started in the Funny Pages

Aug. 16, 2004: Israeli Author Turns Slogans Into Rap Hit

Aug. 1, 2004: Frank Gehry's Mideast Peace Plan

July 17, 2003: 'Sex and the City' Celebrates Judaism

Sep. 5, 2003: In The Radio Studio With Jonathan Schwartz

June 30, 2002: A Cork Pops, People Duck and Israel Laughs

June 17, 2002: For an Israeli, Flights of Fancy Are Grounded

May 26, 2002: An Anchor Pulls Back the Curtain on the Nightly News

DATE TK, 2002: Literary 'Rolling Stone' Sells Out to Male Titillation

Nov. 11, 2001: Public Radio's Private Guru

Feb. 28, 1999: Suburbia Outgrows Its Image in the Arts

Jan. 12, 1999: The Leo Frank Vogue

Nov. 8, 1998: A Microphone on the Margins

June 20, 1998: Asking Software to Recommend a Good Book

March 2, 1998: Can This Man Save Publishing?

June 12, 1997: Anthony J. Lukas

EDUCATION

May 10: 2006: A Young Work in Progress Shattered on a Road in Iraq
April 26, 2006: In College Entrance Frenzy, A Lesson Out of Left Field
February 15, 2006: A Teacher's Fall at a Turbulent School
November 9, 2006: 'Innovative' Math, but Can You Count?
October 26, 2005: For Fasting and Football, A Dedicated Game Plan
September 28, 2005: The Achievement Gap in Elite Schools
September 14, 2005: Just a Living Legacy to the Leader of the Band
August 3, 2005: Little-Noticed Crisis at Black Colleges
July 20, 2005: In Exposing a Grading Scandal, Harsh Lessons Are Learned
June 22, 2005: How Does Their Garden Grow? Very Well, Say Junior Farmers at Bronx Science
May 25, 2005: From Distinguished To Extinguished
May 11, 2005: Heart From the Heartland: Peace Corps Is Special Tradition at Wisconsin
March 30, 2005: A Teacher Sees Herself Younger, and on Broadway
March 16, 2005: Student Grades? The Computers Flunk
March 2, 2005: Catholic Schools Must Be Fund-Raisers
Jan 26, 2005: At Stanford, Tutoring Helps Make a Janitor Less Invisible
Jan 19, 2005: Back to the Basics of a Legible Hand
Dec 22, 2004: An Overcrowded School Boils Over
Dec 8, 2004: A Refuge for Gay Students When Families Turn Away
Nov 17, 2004: Apply Here for Scholarship, And Prepare to Be Smeared
Nov. 3, 2004: Classes in Judaic Studies, Drawing a Non-Jewish Class
Oct. 27, 2004: Grad School's International Glow Is Dimmed by Security Concerns
Oct. 6, 2004:School Codifies a Literary Form That Started in the Funny Pages
Sept. 29, 2004: Politics Aside, a School's Real Success
Sept. 22, 2004: When School Budget Is Starved, Challenging Courses Are Frills
Sept. 15, 2004: Weaning Parents From Children As They Head Off to College
Sept. 8, 2004: Dreamed You Didn't Study? Be Proud, You Meritocrat
Sept. 1, 2004: Behind Top Student's Heartbreak, Illegal Immigrants' Nightmare
July 7, 2004: When the Race for a Top College Intersects With Summer School
June 16, 2004: After Sputnik, It Was Russian; After 9/11, Should It Be Arabic?
May 19, 2004: Increasingly, African-Americans Take Flight to Private Schools
May 12, 2004: Where School Desegregation Battle Began, Victory Casts a Shadow of Defeat
Jan. 22, 2004: 'Legacy' admissions ban highlights flaws in system
April 30, 1999: Broken, But Not Unfixable
Jan. 25, 1999: Esteem Heat
Sept. 30, 1997: The Education Divide

JEWISH INTEREST

April 15, 2006: In the Diaspora: Abe Rosenthal, American Jew
April 6, 2006: Diaspora Voice: Those undesirable immigrants
January 26, 2006: The Inconvenient Man
December 27, 2005: What's really behind the 'anti-Exodus'
October 26, 2005: August Wilson & the Jews
Spring 2005: Philip Roth and the Great American Nightmare
May 27, 2005: From 'Balance' to Censorship: Bush's Cynical Plan for NPR
Nov. 3, 2004: Classes in Judaic Studies, Drawing a Non-Jewish Class
Aug. 16, 2004: Israeli Author Turns Slogans Into Rap Hit
Aug. 1, 2004: Frank Gehry's Mideast Peace Plan
July 21, 2004: Young Lives Scarred by Loss Find Balm at a Summer Camp
Oct. 11, 2003: Are Jews Who Fled Arab Lands to Israel Refugees, Too?
July 17, 2003: 'Sex and the City' Celebrates Judaism
May 17, 2003: A Relationship That's Past Its Prime
June 30, 2002: A Cork Pops, People Duck and Israel Laughs
June 17, 2002: For an Israeli, Flights of Fancy Are Grounded
May 3, 2002: The Case for the Wall
July 16, 2001: Reform Disengages. Now Who's Left?
June 10, 2001: San Francisco Chronicle Essay from Israel
Aug. 9, 2000: Appearance on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer
July 5, 2000: Whither American Zionism
June 30, 2000: PBS segment on Jewish Day Schools
June 22, 2000: Synagogue and State in Israel
March 23, 2000: Gay Marriage and Judaism
June 21, 1999: The Un-Reformation
Nov 23, 1998: Why 'Birthright' Israel Can't Work

POLITICS

April 6, 2006: Diaspora Voice: Those undesirable immigrants
March 21, 2006: In the Diaspora: Confessions of a sap
Aug. 13, 2003: Gay marriages open gate to social stability
May 17, 2003: A Relationship That's Past Its Prime
March 20, 2003: U.S. enters era of privatized war
June 2, 2000: Public to Blame for Voter Apathy
March 10, 2000: Catholics & John McCain

MEDIA

April 15, 2006: In the Diaspora: Abe Rosenthal, American Jew
February, 2006: The Predictable Scandal
May 27, 2005: From 'Balance' to Censorship: Bush's Cynical Plan for NPR

SEPT. 11 & BEYOND

Smithsonian Magazine Nov. 2001: Aftershocks
USA Today Commentaries
Aug 21, 2002: 9/11 Doesn't Do Tragedy Justice
Oct. 16, 2001: Will Arafat father a country?
Oct. 7, 2001: We seek out normalcy even as nation fights back
Sept. 13, 2001: We are all on the frontlines now

Selected Articles by publication > By Subject >