What a stupid, stupid phrase. Be Best what? Be the best person you can be is probably what someone in Melania Trump's circle was thinking...

December 2019 Our group completed an arduous tour of the Majdanek Labor/Death Camp in Lublin, Poland. Among all of the Holocaust sites i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTYZa8asU4o Listen to the writers. You won't be disappointed. Thank you.

Racism has been with humankind for centuries. Americans focus on our sin of slavery. After slavery was abolished, a more subtle form of s...

Challenging, New, Fresh, Comprehensive--How To Be An Antiracist(Audiobooks version),by Ibram Kendi, encompasses those qualities. Listenin...

Odd as it seems, my sister, brother, and I embarked on a transcontinental rail trip, with our parents, in August 1968. The train conveyed...

Guilty as charged with the crime of grasping my purse to my body when passing a young black male on the street, especially when alone. Wh...

The soft spots on an infant's head do not remain a long time. So it is with my psyche. I feel a softness so seldomly these days. This mor...

Often, we are told to utilize our critical thinking skills. Or commentators and politicians report that schools fail to teach reasoning a...

Rabbi Kukla is a rabbi in the San Francisco Bay area. He suffers from a chronic disease. His recent article in The J rang true to me. (Th...

Coronavirus 2020 Another grey day Of solitary walkers Hidden in their thoughts Coming down the path. “Watch out! That’s not 6 feet.” My w...

Coronavirus and social action, you ask? Strange notion, I know, given we are told “to wash our hands” and to “distance ourselves from oth...

The book is a collection of essays, written from the 1970's to the very early 21st century. The writer, Gita Sereny, was born in 1923 in ...

These perpetrators are like serial killers, only they operate on a much larger scale, at a national or continental level. They certainly ...

"...both principles and an insistence on engaging with a world that often doesn’t have space for them." Quinta Jurecic, Atlantic Magazine...

Rocks on rocks--little ones, big ones, jagged, round, smooth, rough. Yisgadal v' yiskadash shmei raba Memory upon memory. Sadness for mil...

A very long day, actually two days of travel to Poland. Now resting in Gdansk, touring begins tomorrow. Watching voting in House of Repre...

The latest brouhaha on some Autism sites is Greta Thunberg and her diagnosis of "high functioning Autism" or Asperber's Syndrome. To add ...

I feel angry and sad that we have a President who does not care a whit about anything of value, and there are so many kids who shoot up t...