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I've Seen Enough.
I’ve been an advocate for Palestinian rights for many years but as a Jewish American, born in the year of Israeli independence, my connection to Israel is a lifetime long. That connection has become...
View ArticleJewish Marylanders, Please Sign This Letter Supporting Sen Van Hollen
I received an email from a Jewish friend today. She explained that a number of Maryland rabbis (80+ at last count) had recently sent a letter to our very own Senator Chris Van Hollen angrily...
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Jewish Trauma, Gazan Suffering
I’ve spent the last couple of days listening to Rachel Maddow’s book, Prequel, which tells the tale of American Nazis, Nazi sympathizers and agents in the U.S. prior to WWII. I knew the book would show...
View ArticleI Don't Remember the Year of My Son's Death
I understand completely, and even more now that I’ve thought it through, why Biden had trouble coming up with the year of his son’s death. My son (the little guy on the right) died in 1991. I can say...
View ArticleIowa Gov Refuses Fed $ for Food Because Kids are Too Fat
Apparently Iowa has decided that giving low income families a little extra money to buy food in the summer months when their kids aren’t getting school lunches is a really bad idea. DES MOINES, Iowa —...
View ArticleNot Another I/P fight diary.
I keep seeing, and dipping in and out of, diaries about Israel and Gaza, horrified by the one-sidedness of almost all of them. Clearly Hamas was successful in helping Putin by dividing the progressives...
View ArticleThe Kindness of Strangers
This is a brief, almost (not quite) Tevye-type story, but it happened to my daughter so it’s very personal. And she experienced both great kindness and elitist indifference. Our younger daughter was...
View ArticleProtect Abortion Rights and Democracy in Virginia. Write Postcards for Aaron...
Daily Kos Political Director & elections expert David Nir has a story up about Democrat Aaron Rouse, who’s running for a vacant seat in the Virginia state senate. While Democrats in the state...
View ArticleAmerican Jews and Fascism Which side are we on, which side are we on...
So here I was, kvelling (essentially doing a happy dance) over Reform Judaism and a wonderful Rabbi in FL taking part in religious suits against Florida over the state’s abortion law. And then I get...
View ArticleThe Very Questionable "Good News!" About Omicron, Updated
A couple of weeks ago a diary was published claiming that Omicron was likely good news because it’s milder and also more transmissible. The idea was we were finally turning the corner, SARS-CoV-2 was...
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Libertarians Said What? Another Example of Why Unions are Essential
I just had to post this because it’s at Onion/satire level. And it’s scary as hell. The Libertarian Party of NH’s official twitter account just tweeted this:xAt the very least, the minimum age to work...
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Advocating for Palestinian Rights & Reclaiming Judaism
About 10 years ago, I posted a series of diaries that were my older daughter’s written record of her experience in Israel and Palestine. The first one in the series was:Notes from An American Jew in...
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Glenn Greenwald's Take on What's REALLY Important...
I usually start the day looking at my newsfeed, which sometimes includes a headline from fox “news.”So yesterday I saw this headline:'Unleash this monster and one day it'll come for you': Glenn...
View ArticleRep. Jamie Raskin Posts Heartbreaking Piece about His Son (trigger warning:...
Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy RaskinJust read this and cried for quite a while. He sounds like a wonderful young man.This is very personal...
View ArticleNYC Schools Re-Opening Plan Endangers Students & Staff: There's a Better...
New York City has a major problem – they have a terrible budget shortfall because of COVID-19: a combination of both massive expenditures and massive loss of income due to the pandemic.So, it’s not...
View ArticleConsidering the Times, Biden Might Be the Best Candidate We Could Have
I never expected to feel this way, but in our current situation, Biden seems like absolutely the right person to be our next president. I started this primary season extremely enthusiastic about Kamala...
View ArticleSecond "accusation" Against Biden Goes Down in Flames
The young woman who is a relative of “I am not a witch” Christine O’Donnell and who has accused Biden of speaking to (and looking at) her inappropriately when she was 14 has just been fact-checked by...
View ArticleSanders Inappropriate Endorsement of Cenk Uygur Withdrawn
Maybe I just missed it but don’t see a diary covering the news that Bernie Sanders has retracted his endorsement of a$$hole extraordinaire Cenk Uygur, but only after Uygur issued a statement saying he...
View ArticleSo Hillary Was Wrong About Tulsi, Right? Wrong.
Just saw this on twitter — Tulsi Gabbard parroting the Republican line about the impeachment inquiries. She softens it a bit, but there it is. On Fox News, because where else would she be saying this...
View ArticleRavelry, The Premier Knitting/Fiber Site, Bans Trump
I’m so excited, I can hardly work the keyboard properly. I’m a weaver, a sometimes spinner, and a knitter and I spend a lot of time on a site for people like me called Ravelry. It’s a site for all...
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