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Todd L. Pittinsky

Feb 7, 2024, 3:18 AM

Mazi’s Moment

Journalists like to put people in their place—that is, in a particular category. She is a feminist icon; he is a far-right firebrand. Mostly, we tend to go along with that, but it’s exciting when someone just can’t be...

Feb 10, 2023, 3:48 PM

I’ll take my schadenfreude where I can get it

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With the world going to hell in a very worrying handbasket, I can still find pleasure in the misfortune of a select few

Jul 7, 2022, 7:57 AM

Daniel 6 was what Greg Jacobs, counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, recalled when rioters attacked the US Capitol on January the sixth. Comparing Daniel’s response to his confinement in a lions’ den makes far more sense than the one that...

Mar 7, 2022, 12:22 PM

Mike Pence’s Queen Esther Moment

Next week, Jews the world over will celebrate the holiday of Purim. This holiday follows the classic Jewish festival paradigm; they tried to kill us, God saved us, let's eat. The Purim story, as recorded in the "Book of Esther,"...

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

Jan 14, 2022, 10:28 PM

Enough with the Holocaust Analogies!

This flyer promoting the candidacy of Maryland State Representative Dan Cox for Governor of Maryland circulated through Jewish professional channels this week. It is unclear who created it, but Rep. Cox has been made aware of it and has not publicly denounced or renounced it.

Has anyone seen the latest flyer promoting Dan Cox’s candidacy for governor of Maryland? Aside from being a mortal offense to graphic designers everywhere, it contains a box on the lower, left-hand corner that reads as follows: Your loved ones...

Jan 10, 2021, 10:09 PM

When Kitsch Gets Dangerous

Elie Wiesel speaking at the ceremony in his honour at the White House. April 19, 1985. Credit: White House Television Studio Archive. The Reagan Library.

Modern History Perspectives series "Jewish tradition commands us to tell the truth to the power" - Elie Wiesel to President Reagan at the public ceremony in the White House, April 19, 1985. A Nazi for the Office. Or rather not Just over...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 1, 2021, 2:09 PM

Ousting Trump: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

By voting in Trump in 2016, the American People has proven without the shadow of a doubt that it is naive in great numbers. And that exactly is a bad basis to confront Trump and get him out of...

Jan 1, 2021, 12:35 PM

2021: A Strong and Smooth Transition

It is a New Year. Many are ready to put so much of 2020 behind. Indeed, we should look back at last year and never forget our losses, our anxieties, our pain. But we also must relish in all...

Helen Gottstein

Oct 17, 2020, 11:57 PM

Get interrupted less. Here’s how

Whatever you think of Candidate for VP, Kamala Harris, she was interrupted 11 times to Mike Pence's five during their debate. Again, no matter what you think of her and whether you like or her perspective or not, chances...

Oct 16, 2020, 7:21 PM

Four More Years of Trump and Pence

Credit: The White House

If you watched the Vice President Debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris then you saw exactly what I did. One candidate has the resolve, poise, record and passion for supporting American families while the other...

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