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Jan 31, 2025, 10:29 AM

JFK, Jack Ruby, and Me

A group of rabbis present a Torah scroll to President Kennedy that belonged to Isaac M. Wise founder of American Reformed Judaism .

Last week’s executive order by President Trump to finally release the classified files on the JFK assassination led me to reflect on my own personal connections to this cataclysmic event. Although I was not alive in 1963, so I...

Dec 23, 2024, 12:57 AM

Suicide prevention: Talk! It can save lives.

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My 6 takeaways, as a grieving father who lost his son to suicide and is living with the 'what-ifs'

Adam S. Ferziger

Dec 19, 2024, 4:19 PM

The Maccabi miracle and the Manhattan murder: On Hanukkah and healthcare

Maccabi clinic in Tira, the Sharon.

Instead of the apparent contempt for human lives that emerges from the US healthcare system, the US should look at Israel's healthcare; Israel gets it right

Warren J. Blumenfeld

Dec 17, 2024, 2:05 AM

The Firearms Culture Is Encoded into the DNA of US Identity

“We pledge allegiance to gun manufacturers and the NRA of America, and for campaign funds for which they give, we sacrifice, under God, our integrity and compassion for all.” The Pledge Taken by Too Many Politicians I write these words after...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 12, 2024, 11:02 PM

A CEO’s murderer might want societal change but not to become a social activist

Don't underestimate: The ego and fame growing up elite that are expected of you. How hard it is to find meaning and pride growing up elite. The shame when you are only liked for what you got handed. How...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 10, 2024, 8:47 PM

The US health fund CEO’s murderer’s mistakes

The perfect crime is the one not committed Background: Healthcare reimbursement denial is the leading cause of bankruptcies in the US. The insurers have just one goal: to make money. Armchair therapists will tell us that it was almost as if...

Mindel Kassorla

Sep 13, 2024, 6:13 PM

What does Scott Hayes have to do with me?

I opened my computer this morning to find news of a very disturbing incident that occurred in Boston last night. American war veteran Scott Hayes, a self-proclaimed zionist (though apparently not Jewish) is being charged with assault and battery with a...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 21, 2024, 7:52 AM

U.S. Secret Service Circles The Wagons

One week ago, the U.S. was ravaged by an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Unfortunately, Israel knows too well the devastation that can be wrought by such attacks given the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...

Joshua Hammerman

Jul 21, 2024, 3:08 AM

Does God Send Bullets – or Hints?

Last Saturday’s despicable and tragic shooting in Pennsylvania has, as one might expect, become fodder for millions of armchair theologians convinced that God steered that bullet away from a direct hit on Donald Trump. Trump himself has, not surprisingly, promoted...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 16, 2024, 11:33 AM

If you don’t want lone wolf shootings, stop bullying boys who are a bit strange

When a guy has nothing to lose, he may hit back as a last try at dignity No motive justifies machine-gunning anyone. But it certainly explains it. Reportedly, the would-be assassin of Trump was bullied almost daily. He had no life,...

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