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Jun 28, 2018, 4:03 PM

America’s Farewell to Judeo

I conducted research on this since the election. A lot of people voted for Trump because they wanted Gorsuch, because their Christian religion values embryos equally or even over actual human life. This is not true in the Jewish...

May 27, 2018, 8:07 PM

Saluting the Brave

You can count on me to be a voice of good cheer on this holiday weekend. More school children were gunned down in America than US soldiers were killed in battle last year. Black men are 13 times as likely to...

May 17, 2018, 10:43 PM

A Summer Camp Memoir

This is one that is hard to begin. About a week ago, Hannah Dreyfus reported in The Jewish Week (also published in Times of Israel) on suspicions of corruption surrounding Reform Jewish summer camp programs on child sex abuse....

May 9, 2018, 9:45 PM

When Darkness Comes to Light

When Trump bitched about Hillary's "Pay to Play" schemes, he wasn't outraged so much as deeply jealous. As a self-pronounced Greed-aholic, Trump has always been willing to do whatever it takes to get money - including money laundering, traitorous...

Apr 6, 2018, 9:18 AM

Well, either Evangelical Christians believe, as this research demonstrates, that Trump was anointed by God, which is more cult voodoo than actual Christianity...or, they easily identify with sexual predators. 78% of Evangelicals STILL support Trump, only down 2% from the...

Mar 20, 2018, 4:43 PM

I was obsessed with Watergate when I was a kid. But as I read each news story, I was rooting for the national nightmare to come to a just conclusion - and it did. I don't know anymore. Because we...

Mar 12, 2018, 6:05 PM

Spiritual Feminism

This OpEd in the Washington Post is eye-opening. Winston Churchill propagated the famine in India. He was far more racist than hero. Today, we have a madman at the helm in America and a Republican Congress that sits on their hands...

Sep 21, 2017, 12:40 AM

Prayers for a Queen to step out of her shadow

Buried all the pain but it insists on climbing through the mist skeletal fingers clawing, peering out of the mud feeling their way pulling us back underground it’s been more so much more it shouldn’t have been at all for all the little flowers emanating light sending wishes like honey candles in the blue, sugared night I don’t...

Aug 31, 2017, 8:18 PM

What's happening in the world is overwhelming. The relentless rains are significant to us all and we can see our lives, our stories, our countries, in this context. From coast to coast, continent to continent, it could be any...

Aug 27, 2017, 12:03 AM

The Art of not Forgiving

When I was younger, as I've mentioned, I was keenly interested in the Watergate political scandal. It was the story of our time. And it served as a metaphor for the lies and whispers surrounding me. We had a neighbor,...

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About Me

Dana is a Jewish feminist and writer who tries to lead a poetic, spiritual, creative life. She is passionate about her daughter, love, kindness, the artist's voice, and speaking out for the vulnerable. She lives in Music City, Nashville, TN.