Saturday, December 13, 2025

Rabbi Elliott Cosgrove Seeks to Open an Important Discussion in the American Jewish Community

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  Last spring, Rabbi Elliott Cosgrove sparked the overheated attacks by New York and other rabbis on now-Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.  I foun...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon

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I just finished reading The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope in Israel's Borderlands by Amir Tibon.  Tibon is a wri...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Haaretz report on the Israeli Government's plans to make a two-state solution impossible.

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  Israel to Okay Plan Splitting West Ba nk in Two to 'Bury the Idea of a   Palestinian State' Smotrich vows to 'bury the idea of...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

History of LGBTQ+ Progress in the Montgomery County MD Public Schools (MCPS), 2002-2025

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In 2015, PFLAG National published on its website a monograph entitled Curriculum Victory in Montgomery County,  Maryland: A Case Study and H...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The Supreme Court's terrible 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti

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We need to work toward a society in which people are not so afraid, or ignorant, of differences that they will countenance cruelty to famili...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

“Say Their Names” and “Thinking about the Unthinkable”

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  “Say Their Names” and “Thinking about the Unthinkable”   1.  The murders of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky   Extremists on all sides t...
Monday, May 26, 2025

On Matt Bai's column, Graduates speak their minds. Universities freak out. In punishing students who make pro-Palestinian commencement speeches, schools lose their way.

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  Matt Bai got this right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/22/higher-education-gaza-universities-graduation/  If you are bl...