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Why removing a cross would be bad for Jews
Jonathan TobinJul 03, 2019
In the view of some ardent defenders of the separation between religion and state, there was no doubt that a war memorial in the form of a 40-foot-tall cross should not...
Bike to Work Day
Shana GoldbergJul 03, 2019
If you noticed a lot more Lycra on the roads last Wednesday, there was a reason: June 26 was Bike to Work Day. As a regular cyclist (in the summer at least), I’ve...
Who gets to define a hate group?
Hillel GoldbergJun 27, 2019
How do we prevent “hate” from becoming a badge of honor? By defeating all haters and hate groups, I would hope. Unfortunately, the matter is not so simple. The fight...
Happy birthday America
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 27, 2019
It was 1984. I was just a little girl visiting my grandmother in Denver, from Israel. We went to one of my great aunt’s for a July 4th barbecue. Of course, I had never...
Garbage Police
Shana GoldbergJun 27, 2019
If Weird Al Yankovic were to choose Radiohead’s “Karma Police” for one of his absurdist spoofs, the title could be “Garbage Police.” But the joke would be on...
Silences speak loudly, words echo softly
Hillel GoldbergJun 20, 2019
So I have been told: Rabbi Gershon Liebman (1905-1997) went through Nazi slave labor camps and the concentration camps not only with his body intact, but with his...
Know when to hold ‘em, fold ‘em
Amy LedermanJun 20, 2019
I arrived in Tucson in the sweltering heat in the summer of 1976 with the intent of visiting my Aunt Gen for a few weeks and enhancing my already freckled tan. But what...
Summer reading
Shana GoldbergJun 20, 2019
Summer is all about light beach reads, but there are two non-fiction books I recently read that are an ideal compendium to fluffier material. Babel is ideal for...
Yes, AOC, you invoked ‘extermination’
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 20, 2019
Here’s a good rule of thumb for Congress: Unless it’s an actual genocide, don’t ever compare anything to the Holocaust. Ever. The fate of the victims of the...
David Friedman and ‘annexation’
Jonathan TobinJun 13, 2019
The New York Times got quite a scoop when, in an interview with its Jerusalem bureau chief David Halbfinger, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said that he favored...
