An Era Comes to an End in Portland, Oregon
Crossposted from The Progressive ZionistI opened my mailbox here in Southeast Portland on Saturday morning and pulled out the last ever copy of The Jewish Review, the semi-monthly newspaper which has...
View ArticleNJ Rec Center WiFi Signal: "F* All Jews and N------"
Teaneck is a town of roughly 40,000 in North Jersey, not more than a dozen miles from Manhattan and just a few miles from my family's 'home base.' It's also one of the most diverse towns in the state,...
View ArticleGBCW
I have little patience for melodramatic TTFN's and GBCW's written to garner attention and sympathy. This is real. And its permanent. I'm not sick. I'm not depressed. I don't have a fancy new job that...
View ArticlePresident Obama, President Peres at AIPAC: U.S. and Israel share common...
Cross Posted at The Progressive ZionistSpeaking at the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) annual conference speakers U.S. President Barak Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres...
View ArticlePioneer of Global Peace Studies Turns Out To Be Anti-Semitic Bigot
This news is beyond disappointing and disheartening. Not much to add, other than to share the story.From Haaretz:Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist nicknamed the “father of peace studies,” made...
View ArticleThe last known gay Jewish Holocaust survivor has died
On Sunday, at a senior citizens' home in Berin, Gad Beck passed away. He was 88 years old. He was also the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.Beck's story has been well documented. He was...
View ArticleA Kaddish for the Connecticut Victims
On what should ordinarily be a joyous evening--the penultimate night of Hanukkah--we are instead facing a horribly grievous tragedy. As of this writing, twenty-seven people are dead, eighteen of them...
View Article***Update: Statement of Opposition to Racist Labels Used by Kossacks to...
***UPDATE - due to the overwhelming and gratifying response to this diary - it has now become almost impossible for some people to get it to load, and we are struggling to add all of the names of...
View Article"[A]s President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide."
In October of 2008, as the Presidential race was reaching a fevered pitch, then-Senator Barack Obama came out with a statement that was subsequently published by the news site, The Armenian Reporter....
View Article100 Years of Injustice: Jewish Perspectives on the Armenian Genocide
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” - Adolf Hitler. So queried the leader of Nazi Germany on August 22, 1939, as plans to invade Poland and ramp up the Final Solution...
View ArticleWorld War II Memorial (photo diary)
I lost lots of my photographs last year, including some that I had set aside in the hope that I could write a diary with photos from the World War I memorial in Kansas City on Veterans' Day. But...
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