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Karl Grossman

Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury who has specialized in investigative reporting for 45 years… [More]
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April 28, 2013
6:00 pm

GMO Food — Banning or Labeling It. And Is It Kosher?

More than 60 countries have enacted laws banning or requiring the labeling of food produced with or containing what’s become known as GMO—genetically modified organisms. But in the United......

March 19, 2013
11:07 pm

Murray Barbash: Championing the Environment of Long Island — and Israel

A major figure championing the environment of Long Island—and Israel—has passed away. Maurice “Murray” Barbash was the long-time chairman of North American Friends of Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research. IOLR......

February 19, 2013
3:58 pm

Mayor Bloomberg’s push to ban Styrofoam

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week announced that he would push for a ban on polystyrene food packaging. “One product that is virtually impossible to recycle and......

January 25, 2013
4:40 am

A Free Internet–Will It Last?

From seemingly out of nowhere has come the Internet—to be, suddenly, the greatest global platform for free expression the world has ever seen. But will this last? Last month, an international......

January 3, 2013
2:57 am

America’s dysfunctional Congress – and the ‘Fiscal Cliff’

Well, the United States this week barely avoided dropping off the “fiscal cliff”– although in the months ahead more fiscal crises are feared because of conflicts between President Barack Obama and......

December 20, 2012
4:13 pm

Changing America’s “Culture of Violence”

“We live in a culture of violence,” Rabbi Shaul Praver told his congregants at Temple Adath Israel in Newtown, Connecticut last week after the killing of six-year-old Noah......

December 9, 2012
4:03 pm

From Borscht Belt to a Contaminated Gasland — It’s No Joke

There’s an uproar in the Catskills – long the iconic vacation getaway for Jews from New York City – over plans to do extensive hydraulic fracturing for gas, a process known as fracking. Fracking......

December 1, 2012
10:18 pm

An End to “Organized Tobacco?”