While attending last weekend’s “Pride in the Park” festival, I witnessed an act of religious masochism. It wasn’t hard to miss. A tall man with a large sign saying, “Let me tell you...
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Demonstrations in Israel and the world are urging the return of the hostages and support for Israel war of extermination against Hamas; opposing rallies in the Arab world and around the globe are...
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Earlier this year, Whoopi Goldberg said that the Nazi-led genocide known as the Holocaust was “white on white” violence.  Her comments that landed her a two-week suspension from “The View.”...
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Some American politicians like to claim that their policies are based on the values of the Judeo-Christian tradition. For Jews, there are no Judeo-Christian values and the Judeo-Christian...
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Roe v. Wade is based on the Supreme Court’s decision that the Constitution includes a right to privacy and thus a woman’s right to determine whether or not she needs an abortion, i.e. what...
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Now that I have completed seventy earth orbits I feel it is time for some reflections. Seventy years is the start date of the planned obsolescence of the human body, as is stated in Psalm 90:10...
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The Bible has been used and abused by Jews as well as Christians to justify positions that subsequently became morally objectionable. Both slavery and the subservient status of women were defended at...
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Maybe it’s because I grew up in Toronto, Canada in the 1950s and had limited exposure to people whose African ancestors were brought to North America.  Perhaps it’s because I grew up mostly in...
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“Kvetch” for those of you unfamiliar with the word is Yiddish, meaning to fret, complain or gripe.  I choose this word as key to my blog because, more often than not, something--usually an item...
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