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Jun 8, 2023, 4:17 PM

The Moral Dilemmas We Are Being Asked To Confront These Days

It’s just not natural to burn your hand, and not scream out in pain. Likewise, if you are a trusted and loyal employee, it’s just not natural to watch a bunch of thugs come into your store, and make...

May 14, 2023, 3:30 PM

If You’re Still a Woman and a Mother, Happy Mother’s Day

While the title of this article may seem a bit absurd, these days, you can no longer take it for granted that someone, born a woman, still identifies as one. So, in the effort to be politically correct, these...

Apr 14, 2023, 8:11 PM

Shaming – The Up-and-Coming Control Lever

Someone figured out that most of us care a great deal what others think about us. Our standing, amongst friends, co-workers and neighbors, has always been a strong motivator to self-regulate in order to maintain our good name and...

Mar 1, 2023, 4:55 PM

If It’s Not About Politics, Then What’s Causing Our Downfall?

It was en route to one of our Lapland destinations, just a few days ago, that our tour guide decided to engage our Israeli group in a philosophical discussion in order to pass the two-hour bus ride a bit...

Jan 25, 2023, 10:15 AM

Why China Looked Good to This American Mother

When an American mother feels the need to write an article entitled, “China Helped Raise My American Kids, and They Turned Out Fine,” (NYT, 1/18/23) you know that something is way off. The same government, which hid the origins of...

Jan 11, 2023, 12:12 PM

Humanity Needs to Get a Backbone

Did you ever warn someone that what they were about to do would result in a huge mistake that would cost them dearly? If so, you may have been met with resistance and anger from a person who felt...

Dec 2, 2022, 6:01 PM

There Are Certain Things I’m Just Never Going to Do

My philosophy in life has always been – if it makes sense, do it. If it doesn’t, don’t. So, there are certain things I’m just never going to do. If the light is red on a one-way street, but there...

Nov 21, 2022, 1:36 PM

The ‘Don’t Pay Attention’ Strategy

A day doesn’t go by that I don’t receive what I would have called, years ago, a hyperbolic text. The headlines read, “Depopulation is on its way” or “Get Used to having all your movements be controlled.” But as...

Nov 7, 2022, 5:52 PM

Just Learn to Adjust

It must have come as a welcomed endorsement to Chef Boyardee when Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, Rep. Sean Patrick, Maloney, D-N.Y., suggested that those who are financially challenged do what he did as a boy, eat the canned...

Sep 27, 2022, 6:25 PM

Is the Future of Doctors Just to Become a Cog in the Wheel?

A good friend of mine was recently told that she will need surgery in order to repair a slipped vertebrae which is now preventing her from walking more than a few minutes before experiencing numbness and the inability to...

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A former Jerusalem elementary and middle-school principal and the granddaughter of European Jews who arrived in the US before the Holocaust. Making Aliyah in 1993, she is retired and now lives in the center of the country with her husband.