Inspiring People / 24 Feb 2020
What My Holocaust-Survivor Father Taught Me About Love
How love became my higher power.
Hold Dualities Together / 20 Feb 2020
The Mixed Emotions Of Attending A Bris In A Place Where Many Jews Died
Attending a bris at Squirrel Hill two years after the massacre.
Inspiring People / 11 Feb 2020
The Bold Wisdom Within Langston Hughes’ Poems
The universal messages found in the poetry of Langston Hughes.
Mundane Into Sacred / 03 Feb 2020
I Didn’t Know What To Expect On A Religious Pilgrimage
A non-religious person takes a trip to Camino De Santiago and experiences unexpected moments of spirituality.
Art & Culture / 30 Jan 2020
What I Learned From A Druze Artist About Battling Antisemitism
How Botaina Halabi, a Druze artist who paints Holocaust images, is an inspiration.
The work of the artist, the act of creation, is an act of naming and making a thing known....
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In the span of two days, two mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton have once again brought anguish over gun deaths to the forefront of the public conversation. An outpouring of emotion was followed by questions of how many times this needs to happen again before lawmakers make substantial steps to reduce gun violence. Soon afterwards, Neil deGrasse Tyson attempted to help bring reason to a very emotional topic: Understandably, Twitter and the media excoriated him — for the timing, for some potential inaccuracies in the numbers, and for coming......
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History and policy teach us that citizenship—especially citizenship in a stable, peaceful democracy-- is almost always a matter of luck, not righteousness. ...
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Dear God, let me say the right things, with the right motivation in my heart and let it make a difference, in accordance with Your will....
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The goal is to shift the responsibility from the parent to placing the responsibility on the child or teenager....
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Watch: Barbara Johns, Teenage Revolutionary Against Racism
16-year-old Barbara Johns stood up against racial segregation and inequality in America's schools,
