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Nina B. Mogilnik

Jul 6, 2018, 12:22 AM

Fascists and Firefighters

There are few things in today's America that are surprising, I suppose. Americans' ignorance of history is legendary, so the unwillingness or inability of many to see what is being created (and what is being destroyed) before their eyes,...

Philip Lefkowitz

Jun 25, 2018, 12:14 AM

Is The ACLU Reconsidering Its Role?

The disclosure of an internal memo at The American Civil Liberties Union has questioned whether the ACLU, long the standard bearer for the protection of free speech at all costs, the First Amendment, is considering modifying their position. "Our defense...

Irina Tsukerman

Jun 7, 2018, 11:21 PM

Intrafaith Dialogue for Jews: Healing the Divisions Created by History and Politics

I spent three days at the Yemenite Conference organized in conjunction with the American Sephardi Federation. The Conference was focused on Jewish Muslim relations in Yemen, but of course touched on many other issues - the Yemenite experience of...

Raymond M. Berger

Jun 6, 2018, 1:29 AM

If I am Not Stupid, What am I?

The kids of IfNotNow are not the only Jews whose brains have fallen out. It seems to be a Jewish hazard: the alarming habit of many Jews to take the point of view of their enemies. A New Organization with a...

Nina B. Mogilnik

Jun 4, 2018, 6:33 PM

Democracy Dies in Darkness. Or Does It?

The tag line of the Washington Post is "Democracy Dies in Darkness." I disagree. Democracy dies when it is suffocated, when it is drowned in a sea of lies. Democracy is messy. It is complicated and in many ways...

May 31, 2018, 1:31 PM

In light of what’s happening in Italy (and not only)

“(Obama) had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people...

Dana Janine Diamond

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 8, 2018, 6:13 AM

What hath silence wrought?

If you walk eight blocks from my office in Center City Philadelphia you reach Independence Hall, where in 1776 the Founding Fathers of the United States drafted the Declaration of Independence, and in 1787 they drafted the United States...

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