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 morning, I listened to ...

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

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. (The Jewish Bulletin of...

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

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

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 Vienna. Ms. Sereny w...

These perpetrators are like serial killers, only they operate on a much larger scale, at a national or continental level. They certainly are not terrified, a...

"...both principles and an insistence on engaging with a world that often doesn’t have space for them." Quinta Jurecic, Atlantic Magazine, 2/9/20 I read this...

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

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

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

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 their schools. We onl...

"And you are? Ah, yes, I  remember you." Or "Oh, sorry, we were in such a large class, about 700."  These were the salutations ringing through the spaces of ...

Battle, War, Combat, Fight--common terms used to describe a response to illness. This metaphor, as in the "War On Cancer," originated in the 1970's. However,...