Articles written by: Diane Weber Bederman

Ukraine’s Sunflower of Peace

    The sunflower (Helianthus), called “sunyashnikiis” in Ukrainian, is the national flower of Ukraine. The bright yellow blooms are an integral part of its culture, heritage, and even its economy. Sunflowers were first imported from North America to Ukraine...

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Covid: Two years later

  I wrote my first article about Covid in March 2020. I am sharing it again. Here are some facts to keep in mind as you read it. Reported Covid deaths There are approximately 7.8 billion people in the world: 5.96 million have died. That is 0.08%. In America there...

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The Canada Trucker Convoy, the Yellow star and a missed opportunity to teach

Remember when AOC compared Trump’s border detention centres to concentration camps?

“The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are – they are concentration camps,” Ocasio-Cortez told an Instagram Live audience Monday evening. “And if that doesn’t bother you … I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should not, that ‘never again’ means something,” a reference to a phrase commonly invoked by Jews about the Holocaust.

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