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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,...

Jul 5, 2018, 7:21 AM

I know it’s hard to report those in power

When I was fresh out of social work school and working in a group home for teenage boys, I often had to call 911. The boys would get into outrageous fights that could last up to an hour, occasionally...

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...

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...

Jun 12, 2018, 3:49 PM

North Korea: Why it’s a global game changer

For some years now I have been telling anyone who might listen – and they have been precious few – that the tectonic plates are shifting. Europe and European civilization is waning on the express track. Childless societies dependent...

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...

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 21, 2018, 2:22 PM

Rewriting the princess story

I confess: I was a little tearful while watching highlights from the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle over the weekend. I might be British but I’ve never been much of a Royalist and I generally don’t take any...

May 18, 2018, 10:39 AM

#MeToo at Mount Sinai

Moses Breaking the Tables of the Law (1659) by Rembrandt. (Wikipedia)

How could the Children of Israel stand in God's powerful presence and truly consent to His command?

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....

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