by Diane | Jan 16, 2021 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
Why the Jews? Because we are a stiff-necked people. Heinrich Heine wrote: “The Jewish people are a nation that has defied the centuries – a great eternal holy people, the people of God, which serves as the model for all humanity.” Jews have two choices, today,...
by Diane | Jan 11, 2021 | Ethics, Politics
All over the world, we are witnessing police forces and security guards attacking citizens for not wearing a mask, walking outside, playing hockey, surfing alone in the ocean, sitting around a family dinner table, opening their businesses. The police are following...
by Diane | Jan 4, 2021 | Ethics, Politics
Allan Bloom, author of the Closing of the American Mind,1987, wrote that many of us find our purpose and our intellectual and spiritual connection to the world through the stories and wisdom of the Bible, unlike many people who live with “an open-ended future...
by Diane | Dec 28, 2020 | Politics
For those of you who follow me on my blog, you know I have been following and writing about Covid 19, the Chinese Virus, since March 2020. I have read as many expert opinions as I could find, and that has been problematic as Twitter and Facebook have refused to post...
by Diane | Dec 16, 2020 | Ethics, Politics
What happens when we take freedom for granted? There was a time when many knew the poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller who was in concentration camps from 1937 to 1945, first in Sachsenhausen, then in Dachau. Niemöller had preached against the Nazi...
by Diane | Dec 10, 2020 | Politics
American Progressive Jews remind me of black people who were thrilled if they could pass for white. I understand that desire. Black people were not welcome in the white world. To get ahead, to get anywhere, it was easier if one could “pass.” It appears to me...
