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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...

Elaine Rosenberg Miller

Jun 21, 2018, 3:25 PM

Death, uninvited, entered the room. My father's fingers slipped from mine, his once strong hands, blotched, torn by the ravages of his illness. He fought and fought and yet, the heartless clock on the hospital wall advanced. In my mind, he is...

Jun 17, 2018, 12:54 PM

‘As I Like It’…. But Really ‘As You Like It’

Some 13 years ago I walked onto a stage in Merkaz Hamagshimim's Center Stage Theater in Jerusalem' German Colony never knowing that I would not only one day run the place, but that I would have one of the most...

May 30, 2018, 8:19 AM

A salute to the brave people

There they go The brave people Whom you and I see every day We don’t know the extent of their bravery (Because many of them wear the concealing mask of a brave smile) A senior hobbling at the supermarket Post hip surgery, it’s her first...

May 24, 2018, 3:38 PM

On prosecuting poets

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, who is under house arrest. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Dareen Tatour has some responsibility for violence her words may inspire, but she should not be under arrest

May 21, 2018, 12:53 PM

A voice lost in the whirlwind

Yes, the "evil" Israelis again have upset The world -- shot civilians who'd peacefully met To throw stones, cut wires, send kites to burn farms With guns at the ready in case they could swarm Through some breach in the border to where...

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....

May 13, 2018, 8:24 AM

Mom’s the word

Kick up your heels, crocs, birkenstocks Flip flops, nikes or plain ole feet; Today's the day where many moms meet At that mighty mountain: Motherhood So here's my cyber-blessing maternal greet Celebrate your family Seize today, tomorrow, and thereafter Fill your time with meaning, love, light...

May 11, 2018, 7:42 AM

Being a Mother Demands the wisdom of Solomon Patience of Hillel the Sage And strength of Samson the Mighty Being a Mother Requires the wallet of Rockefeller Innovation of Benjamin Franklin And comedic timing of The Three Stooges Being a Mother Entails burning the midnight oil Seeing the glass...

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...

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