A View From the Shore - Do Labels Make It Better?
So I've been thinking about labels a lot as I try to organise and prepare for the big changes that are coming up around here.
View Article"Are You a Jewess?"
Over the last fifty years, social norms have evolved such that overt expressions of many forms of prejudice are now taboo. If you live in world in which you rarely, if ever, encounter such prejudices,...
View ArticleFive Years of Capitivity
Saturday marked the fifth occurrence of a most sad anniversary denoting the date when Galid Shalit was captured by Hamas and taken into Gaza as their prisoner.Five years have passed without him once...
View ArticleMondofront: Now with Gilad Atzmon
Though still curiously acceptable in some corners, the Middle East-focused site Mondoweiss has graduated from mere Jew-counting to front-page publishing of Holocaust deniers. In his June 23rd screed,...
View ArticleDoes Nasrallah Support Massacres?
The LA Times reports today that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has called upon Syrians to support the Assad regime as it massacres them in the streets.In a speech late Wednesday, Nasrallah threw his...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Chukat
Parashat Chukat Numbers 19:1-22:1All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being...
View ArticleDvar Torah: Pinchas
First, a personal comment: It's fascinating how a person's life experience shape them.... As I sit here in the great backwoods of Maine and read about the Israelites in the Wilderness, I realize that...
View ArticlePalestinian Territories in Financial Distress
In yesterday's LA Times it was reported that the Palestinian Authority is being faced with increasing financial difficulties. The PA has until July 26 to pay the salaries of its 150,000 government...
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Lyndonville, VT: From homophobia to antiSemitism
Or perhaps in the Northeast Kingdom in general? On the heels of the anti-LGBT bigotry openly practiced by the ownership of the Wildflower Inn, the Caledonian Record is polling the issue, with...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Mas'ei
Parashat Mas'ei Numbers 33:1-36:13This is the final Torah portion in the Book of Numbers. Numbers is essentially a chronicle of the Israelites' 40 years of wandering in the desert between the Exodus...
View ArticleIslamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism at the FBI
In a recent article in Wired, Spencer Ackerman revealed the depths Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism at the FBI. As recently as January of 2009, the Bureau was using as a part of its training of new...
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Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Dies
Edited to correct a typo Rudolf and Edi were partners for nearly 60 years, not 30 as originally noted.Multiple European news sources are reporting that Rudolf Brázda, believed to be the last gay...
View Article100 Years of Injustice: Jewish Perspectives on the Armenian Genocide
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” - Adolf Hitler. So queried the leader of Nazi Germany on August 22, 1939, as plans to invade Poland and ramp up the Final Solution...
View ArticleWorld War II Memorial (photo diary)
I lost lots of my photographs last year, including some that I had set aside in the hope that I could write a diary with photos from the World War I memorial in Kansas City on Veterans' Day. But...
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