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Jan 7, 2017, 11:05 PM

Saying kaddish for the squirrel

He set out to teach his kids that death is part of life, but they already knew saying goodbye comes before pizza

Nov 10, 2016, 6:31 PM

Alarmism saved my family from Hitler: Why I won’t tell anyone to calm down about Trump

President-elect Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

He won't tell anyone to calm down about Trump -- optimists didn't fare well then, and they might not now

Aug 13, 2016, 10:46 PM

Karaoke on the psych ward

Illustrative photo of a psychiatric hospital. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Crushed to learn he was still too sick to go home, he found salvation in a paranoid schizophrenic's wise words

Sep 24, 2013, 12:27 AM

Why do we call terrorists who are willing to die for their cause ‘cowards?’

Why has the charge of fearfulness become the worst thing we can say about those who perpetrate evil?

Sep 17, 2013, 1:18 PM

We were told he would live forever

Remembering the kindness of Rabbi Philip Berg, founder of the controversial and high-profile Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles

Jan 24, 2013, 12:47 AM

In frozen Ukraine, warming up to my Jewish forefathers

I am not a Jew. My father’s family was, however, and part of this trip was about connecting to my distant paternal heritage

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Hugo Schwyzer is a freelance writer and editor and father of two, living in Los Angeles