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Dana Janine Diamond

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...

Jun 25, 2018, 6:26 PM

My Love Letter to Hannah Senesh

I majored in history as an undergraduate at Youngstown State University, and was privileged to take several classes with noted Jewish scholar and author Dr. Saul Friedman. When I took his course on the Holocaust as a nineteen-year-old, he asked...

Carol Silver Elliott

Jun 14, 2018, 5:27 AM

Combating elder abuse

Friday June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. It’s a day when we work to get the larger community to focus on issues of elder abuse, to be not just aware of the problem but also to be...

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 25, 2018, 5:50 AM

The spiritual journey that will forever change the way we look at single dads

I’d like to tell you about a new book, Leader of the Pack. It is the story of a man who, like many men, had been going through his life apparently content and positively clueless. A man devoid of...

Dana Janine Diamond

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....

Dana Janine Diamond

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...

May 1, 2018, 7:16 PM

We’ve Solved the Agunah Crisis

I recently received a very exciting text message. It was from a woman whom I’ll refer to here as Ayala, letting me know that, after a two-year process, her civil divorce had been finalized. Finally. Thus concluded a marriage...

Shammai Engelmayer

Apr 19, 2018, 7:46 PM

Dealing with our ‘dirty little secret’

This Sunday, Project Sarah hosts its 12th annual breakfast in Bergen County. “Sarah” is the acronym that describes the organization’s stated mission — to “Stop Abusive Relationships At Home.” As well as offering its informational programs, the organization also...

Apr 19, 2018, 2:16 AM

70 extraordinary women of Israel

Painting by Yael Harris Resnick, in honor of Israel's 70th birthday and Israel's women soldiers. (Courtesy, Miriam Lottner)

Celebrating those who have made the Jewish state their home, giving of themselves and their diverse talents

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