Recent content by JBG

I just finished reading Maps and Meaning: Levitical Models for Contemporary Care by Rabbis Nancy H. Wiener and Jo Hirschmann. This book was recommended to me by one of the cantors at my synagogue. I must admit it was a difficult read, but I am glad that I read it. I also must admit that I...

I just finished reading Battle for the Jewish State by Victoria Coates. The book is an extremely good summary of the history of Israel’s struggle for existence, recognition, and normalcy. The author also aptly describes the evolution of the relationship between Israel and the United States from...

How is there no such thing? I am: Pro-choice Pro-integration; In favor of wolf reintroduction to wild parts of the U.S.; and I approached an animal that is 98% wolf. I am a liberal Democrat, maybe a progressive one.

The linked New York Times article (Link to article, no paywall, print edition headline, Suez Signaled Britain’s Slide. Could Iran Do That for U.S.?) attempts to draw a misleading parallel between The West's self inflicted wounds in 1956 and Trump's attempt to do exactly the opposite. In 1956 (in...

I just finished reading Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War and Morality by Shlomo M. Brody. It was an important book but by no means an easy read. It's material was utterly unfamiliar to me. The 30,000 foot view is that Israel in particular and the civilized Western world in...

Maybe at a "learing center"?

Fox News?

I assume you mean "unaccompanied."

I know but there are forum rules and most require "G-rated" language. I linked interested readers to the language.

The majority opinion of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest court for the Pacific rim states, in OLYMPUS SPA; et al., Plaintiffs - Appellants, v. ANDRETA ARMSTRONG, Exec. Dir. of the Washington State Hum. Rts. Comm'n & MADISON IMIOLA, Defendants - Appellees., No. 23-4031, 2026...

I just finished reading George Orwell‘s Animal Farm. This book, obviously a classic, is a parody Communist takeover and of life under Communism. I am surprised that I had never read this book before. It was not assigned to me in middle school or in high school. I found it sitting on my shelf...

I think that someone that maintains email correspondence with a pedophile does not become one by association.

Loitering around its corridors and "working" by having a few hours of debate a week.

I do not understand your last sentence, highlighted.

The United Nations has its origins in the brutality of World War II, that war's origins in Germany's and Japan's unchecked territorial ambitions, and the need to end the war in the debris of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden. The U.N. was supposed to replace war with dialogue. To quote George...