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Sarah Palin has done a terrible injustice to humane, caring and coordinated healthcare when she spoke out against palliative care without any factual or medical knowledge. I have written this Open Letter to Mrs. Palin to help educate people and try to undo some of the harm she and others have done.
From Penn State’s accommodation of pedophilia and rape to baseball’s decades-long toleration of steroids to Ritchie Incognito’s racist rant, our athletes and our coaches are – to a greater extent than we’ll admit – exactly what we’ve made them.
The gold rush is on and here I am, about to add another player to the religious marketplace: a spiritual travel agency. Let me offer a hint of how it might work, specifically in a little experiment I’ll be trying locally in Washington, DC in the next few months. Here’s my pitch.
This Wednesday, November 20, could be defined by one of the largest labor strikes in the history of the University of California. Custodial, food service, grounds, and health service workers affiliated with AFSCME 3299 are planning to strike on all UC campuses. They are forming picket lines to contest the stark acts of intimidation they faced from supervisors prior to a work action some of them undertook last spring to preserve safe staffing levels at UC hospitals. A number of workers were pulled into private meetings with supervisors and threatened with consequences if they joined the strike.
Perhaps because I descend from an intramixed Jewish marriage I’ve always been aware of the exclusion of Sephardic or Spanish Jews from the exclusively Ashkenazic histories of the American‑Jewish experience.The ultimate fault of anthologies that do the same is the closing down of our sense of the multi-lingual Jewish literary experience in America, apparently out of thoughtless ignorance.
We hear it all the time. Meditation is narcissistic. Not only is this offensive and inaccurate, it’s not even new.
So is my fiction book true? I think the next time somebody asks me, I’ll have to tell them, yes, it is – absolutely. I hope they’ll forgive me if that’s not exactly true.
The Anti-Defamation League, has branded various groups as “anti-Israel,” condemning activist groups such as the Jewish Voice For Peace to social ostracism and marginalization, and potentially creating an invitation to violence against them.
Sigfried Gold suggests there is an abundance of spiritual wisdom that can be gained by approaching fundamentalists with humility, care, and curiosity, and provides us with the seven best reasons to do so.
Amy B. Dean explores the issue of Jewish support for immigration reform with a new angle: Rather than simply following the teaching to welcome the stranger, or out of a sense of obligation to the legacy of American immigration policy that welcomed Jews in past centuries, some Jewish activists are organizing for immigration reform with the idea that their fate is bound up with the fate of new immigrants–in other words, out of a sense of solidarity.