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Jul 14, 2018, 8:10 PM

Social Media Usage and Students: What Can Be Done?

Social media usage is truly a global trend and is not only present in Israel, however, several researchers are showing that Israel is ahead of countries in North America and Europe regarding social media usage. For example, according to...

Carol Silver Elliott

Jul 12, 2018, 9:58 PM

Author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is quoted as saying, “I don’t mind aging -- I’m glad to be aging. I’ll never die young.” That’s a variation of the “it’s better than the alternative” comment that many people make about the...

Jul 12, 2018, 6:43 PM

The House of Death is Life.

I was always told by my grandfather that everybody was gone, deported, murdered, exterminated, burned, it was ‘the unspoken’, an unspeakable pain. There were no graves and therefore we never spoke of Jewish graves, cemeteries, or burial in general...

Jul 9, 2018, 11:48 PM

My Breasts and Me

Baby eating mother's milk. Mother breastfeeding baby. Beautiful mom breast feeding her newborn child. Young woman nursing and feeding baby. Concept of lactation infant.

My breasts were removed when it was found that there was cancer in them. It was, as you must know, rather devastating for all the usual reasons. A challenge to my immortality was high on the list. The miseries...

Jul 9, 2018, 6:09 PM

Wish you could do more? Steps to Healing America

You marched and Tweeted against this latest abhorrent injustice in America- the rage over the children separated from parents and abused in detention centers. Now what? We are grateful to the journalists who documented these horrors and woke the world...

Jul 9, 2018, 5:25 PM

Mother, Neighbour, Activist or Simply a Human Being?

MK Aida Touma-Suleiman

Today my house is being repainted and this morning I needed to get some paint mixed at the local Ace branch. My Gett taxi driver, an old timer like myself tried to explain to me what those trapped children...

Bracha Goldstein

Jul 9, 2018, 1:33 PM

Bring back our boys

I am waiting for the safe return of children trapped in a cave the way I would want someone to wait for mine

Jul 9, 2018, 7:43 AM

A daughter’s agonizing decision

As my mother lay dying, I packed my family up for our very first trip to Israel

Helen Maryles Shankman

Jul 8, 2018, 10:23 PM

Independence Day

Bang, bang, bang, BANG!! It sounded like war

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