Celebrate With Me the Promise of America

11.11.2012 _____________________ 2012. Election night. Fifty years after the rioting that surrounded the forced integration, with student James Meredith at Continue reading →

It’s Romney Whom We Don’t Know

11.03.2012 _____________________ “How’d someone like that get to be your leader anyway?” “Charisma. Circumstances, promises… Not enough of us spoke Continue reading →

Social Justice, Socialists and Samaritans

10.12.2012 _____________________ “Do you wish to honor the body of Christ? Do not ignore him when he is naked. Do Continue reading →

Fifty Shades of Ignorance

10.07.2012 _____________________ I remember, in the 1950s, accompanying my mother to the First National supermarket. Waiting in the check-out line Continue reading →

Israel-Iran Tensions Complicate Coming Election

09.02.2012 _____________________ “Do you still think Israel will bomb Iran?” “Sadly, yes.” Each month, for more than two years now, Continue reading →

Mr. Romney: Welcome to (Occupied) Palestine

07.29.2012 _____________________ Mitt Romney arrives in Israel today as part of a three-country tour which began in, as Romney erroneously Continue reading →

Politics of Religion: 3 Muslims and a Mormon

10.16.2011 _____________________ I met Steve Jobs once, and shook his hand. In San Francisco. A fleeting moment. Had I known Continue reading →