Many of us who believe we are open minded and are swayed only by the truth are liars. We lie to ourselves because we wan’t to believe that we are thinking through situations and using reason to come to our particular stance even when so much of our positions come from built in bias and…
After the October 7th Hamas invasion/terrorist act/uprising (whatever you’d like to call it), a proliferation of signs started appearing overnight. There were several flavors: Free Palestine, Stop the Genocide, Bring Them Home, Ceasefire Now and We Stand With Israel. As with all things these days, everyone has a side. It seems that most get their…
To say Jewish identity is complex is a grand understatement. Are we a race? An ethnicity? a religion? All three? Maybe just two? Perhaps only one? Oh and so many more possibilites. Are we still Jews if we are only culturally and not religiously connected? Does a Jew born in suburban Philadelphia have some natural…
For some time now it has occurred to me that the Jewish state should simply move itself to Florida. South Florida to be precise. Why, you may ask, would the fledgling state (Editor’s Note: hmm, what is the statute of limitations on using a word like that?) of Israel make a move over 6,000 miles…