by Rebecca Kennedy | Oct 2, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Prosecutor or Criminal? Prosecutor or Criminal? Prosecutor or Criminal? It was a consistent mantra throughout the Democratic National Convention. While I didn’t watch all four nights, I watched enough for that to be one of my takeaways. While this was still on my...
by Jack Moline | Aug 7, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
A few years ago, my friend Peter Maer called me with a request. Peter had a very successful career as a journalist for CBS Radio and he knows an important story when he hears it. He had gotten to know the guy he hired to do some work on his house in Northern Virginia....
by Fred Guttman | Mar 23, 2021 | Opinion
We have a wonderful family in our congregation wherein the mother is from the Philippines and the father is Jewish. The four boys in the family are being raised as Jews. Last week, the 13-year-old son, whose Bar Mitzvah Torah portion is from Leviticus, revised his...
by Fred Guttman | Oct 28, 2020 | Opinion
We have an opportunity on Nov. 9 to come together with people throughout the planet and take a stand against all forms of bias, bigotry, racism and anti-Semitism. Throughout the world, in commemoration of the anniversary of the terrible anti-Jewish riot known as...
by Nick Lear | May 30, 2017 | Opinion
Hate has been bothering me lately. Not, I hasten to add, because I am feeling hated, and not because I hate someone else. I was reading some comments online from someone I don’t know but whom I respect about the level of negative, critical, judgmental, cruel and...