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Michael Zoosman
May 2, 2025, 6:28 PM
Shattering La Vie en Rose: A Vancouver Mental Health Outreach Worker’s Response to Mass Killing
The horrific car ramming event that slaughtered eleven attendees and maimed dozens more at the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival on April 26, 2025, was Vancouver’s baptism by fire into a club into which no city seeks membership. This urban gem...
Audrey N. Glickman
Apr 22, 2025, 7:50 AM
BLAMED
Jews are blamed. Even when folks hold us high, saying they support us, we are blamed. They prop us up and point, the better to aim the blame. What is blame? Blamed if I know. (They used to say that...
Audrey N. Glickman
Dec 25, 2024, 9:33 PM
The Difference Between a Sentence of Death and Life in Prison
For millennia, humans have sentenced criminals to death, exile, or excommunication. The purpose of such a sentence is to sever the criminal from society, to separate the person from potential new victims and from followers and acolytes whom he might...
David Harbater
Oct 10, 2024, 6:36 PM
Yom Kippur 2024 and Coping with Vulnerability
There is, perhaps, no other time in the Jewish calendar year that we feel as vulnerable as we do on Yom Kippur. Denied all physical pleasures, we spend the day in synagogue asking God for forgiveness and atonement for...
Audrey N. Glickman
Feb 5, 2024, 3:26 AM
Healing, Resiliency, and Learning: Tree of Life Pittsburgh
All who are yearning, let them come. All who feel disconcerted, let them come and harmonize. All who are in need of healing, let us help you begin. I have been reading quite a few articles recently of the op-ed variety in...
Mort Laitner
Jan 26, 2024, 2:16 AM
The End of the Jewish American Renaissance
I sit on the couch, petting my Westie's white coat. Daisy, like all dogs, enjoys when I rub her belly. She feels safe and secure. And as she shuts her eyes, mine feast on another episode of Northern Exposure...
Michael Zoosman
Oct 27, 2023, 6:57 PM
L’chaim Marks Five Years Since Tree of Life Shooting – and War: ‘May the Killings END!’
Today marks five years since the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting - the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty,” reiterate now what we wrote in the...
David Kalb
Sep 19, 2023, 11:04 PM
Bruce Springsteen, “Land of Hope and Dreams”, Grace and Yom Kippur
Introduction: This article is based on a talk I gave at Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, NJ, on Thursday, September 7, 2023. I would like to extend my gratitude to Rabbi Lucas, Susan Werk, Gayle Wieseneck, Shani Drogin, Ami Talkow, Laura...
Richard E. Vatz
Sep 3, 2023, 3:49 PM
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The Tree of Life mass murderer deserves his sentence
The strongest argument against the death penalty is fear of error, but the odds of executing an innocent person these days are basically nil
Michael Zoosman
Aug 28, 2023, 11:46 AM
‘NO to the Gas Chamber!’ – L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty
The thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” stand together with all of civilized humanity against the use of any form of gas chamber - or any other means - to kill prisoners. It is inconceivable that...
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