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Nov 4, 2023, 10:00 PM

Rage: a poem in remembrance of the October 7 Massacre

Rage in remembrance of the October 7 massacre It disturbs, this slanting light yellow & rapturous and once a part of promise. Mocking now, and strange these sighing palms that stirred with expectation. How like betrayal the stillness of desert flowers quiet, beautiful,...

Oct 15, 2021, 11:31 PM

Hello from Pittsburgh. Facing some grim facts today. Sorry! Antisemitism is on the rise again. A virus, metaphorically. Always there, always waxing and waning, never leaving, always adapting. Jews were once hated for their religion (think Spanish Inquisition) for their race (think Holocaust) currently for...

Jul 5, 2021, 11:20 PM

Hello Readers, Watched a video on Duke/UNC Conference on the conflict in Gaza held March 22-24, 2019. Anti-Israel rhetoric devolved into open antisemitism. Among other offenses was a antisemitic performance by Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar. Duke has finally dealt with a complaint about this filed...

May 21, 2021, 1:10 AM

Hello Blog Readers, As all undoubtedly know, Israel is under siege. In defense of its citizens and its land from a constant barrage of missiles launched from Gaza by Hamas, Israel is conducting retaliatory operations. Sadly, and perhaps predictably, these actions have spurred worldwide condemnation...

Jan 31, 2021, 12:35 AM

I don’t scare easy but now I am scared…

Greetings Readers, I think that often the Wall Street Journal gets it right. In the Saturday/Sunday, January 30, 2021 edition, an editorial called “Speech and Sedition” discusses the looming movement toward suppressing conservative voices in media. In clear terms the opinions of The Washington Post,...

Dec 5, 2020, 1:06 AM

We, the American Jews

Greetings, As some readers may know, I am a Jewish-American who has been observing my peers since mid-20th century. It is said that one should write about what one knows best. Although I’ve devoted years to other pursuits, mainly in the arts, i.e. painting and...

Oct 26, 2020, 9:28 PM

Remembering The Tree Of Life

Dear Readers, On the morning of Saturday, October 27, 2018, an armed assassin named Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa., shouted “All Jews must die,” and opened fire. Now we are two years past the event, and like so many...

Oct 7, 2020, 12:06 AM

Trying to Understand

Dear Readers, You do not need me to remind you that we are living in troubled times. Every day brings more sickness, violence and corruption. We are besieged by political, health and environmental catastrophes, day after day—-but of course, you already know that. I mention...

Sep 14, 2020, 11:55 PM

One Quiz Question

Hello Readers, I continue to puzzle over the psychology of American Jews’ rush to support Black Lives Matter. As we all now know over 600 Jewish Organizations signed on in support of the organization in a published in The New York Times on August 28....

Aug 20, 2020, 8:07 PM

Dear Reader, As are many of us in this summer of 2020, I am deeply troubled. This is an election year in our country, and I can’t remember another one that was as fraught with partisanship, anger and ill-will. We are also struggling in the...

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About Me

Judith R. Robinson is a visual artist, an editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet. She has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She has taught and conducted workshops for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, Winchester- Thurston School and Allegheny Community College. She currently teaches poetry for Osher at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.