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Sep 12, 2024, 8:08 AM

September 11th to October 7th. 26 Days.

When I went to look at Facebook memories of September 11th, I saw that I’d posted in years past about waiting by the phone that 2001 morning. About how the call had come from my husband, telling me that...

Mar 2, 2022, 5:00 PM

We pray for the souls of those lost And the hearts of those fighting We pray that the spirit of democracy soar And that freedom, marrying right to responsibility, echo through fear and disease We pray for the memory of those who knew...

Jan 15, 2021, 2:58 AM

10 MAGA tactics that can end the COVID-19 pandemic

10 MAGA Tactics That Can End the COVID-19 Pandemic 1. Conspiracy theories. Pssst... Have you heard the morgue, cemetery and funeral industries don’t want you to take the vaccine? Or wear a mask? That’s right — BIG DEATH has it in for...

Sep 27, 2020, 1:01 AM

Forgive me for seeing you as a threat For disappearing into my isolation and not worrying enough about you For being so happy to get out of my house that I didn’t put your safety first For not initially taking this pandemic...

Mar 14, 2020, 12:55 AM

A Prayer In Isolation

This is a prayer for faith and for science That the sick be healed and fears quelled That the lives of others take precedence over our own convenience And that in our stillness, we find gratitude and peace. A prayer that we value...

Jan 1, 2020, 11:34 PM

There is a war going on against the Jews, and without knowing we’ve been enlisted as foot soldiers against each other, against ourselves. Neither opportunists nor apologists are safe, and Jewish light shines too brightly to keep a low...

May 2, 2019, 12:05 AM

Anti-Semitism & White Supremacists: What to Do Now

The latest explosion of hate from a disaffected young white man was pre-explained in a digital tangle of incomprehensible worn out cliche learned on the internet. Hate is not in hiding: white supremacists present clear domestic terror threat. Not...

Dec 2, 2018, 8:49 PM

It’s Greek to Me

The miracle of Chanukah (or Hannukah or Hanukah) most remembered in our holiday celebration is not the battle, but the miracle of the light: a tiny vessel of oil lasting eight days, menorah remaining lit, a defiled temple purified. ...

Nov 2, 2018, 10:47 PM

Solidarity Shabbat

You don’t shoot just one Jew These are bullets felt around the world. Through generations. Pain encoded from Pittsburgh to Paris, reconstructionist to Lubavitcher Victim of cossack, concentration camp, Neo-Nazi... You don’t shoot just one Jew Even when barely a minyan, we fill auditoriums and social...

Oct 28, 2018, 5:05 AM

Never again, we learned

Never again, we learned. We must always be aware. It’s the right, it’s the left We say We divide They are better for Israel. Iran. The embassy. On both sides. Hate crimes. BDS. College campuses. Dog whistles. They are better for the Jews. They give tax breaks. They spew hate. They are violent. So...

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Judi Zirin is an attorney and freelance writer in the New York area.