Come on Iran. How petty can you be?
By Debra Rich Gettleman Okay, we’ve all played team sports. We’ve all shaken hands after winning or losing a big game. We watch professional ball players congratulate winning teams with tears in their eyes. It’s called “sportsmanship.” We even punish our kids when...
Hate crime or pubescent prank?
by Debra Rich Gettleman This past Shabbat, the first one of the 2023 school year at UC Berkeley, proved to be anything but restful for Jewish Fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi). Instead, it offered a glance into antisemitism on campus. At about 1am Saturday morning, a...
Traversing the city of Jerusalem
by Masada Siegel “Would you like to go to the ‘Ninja Park’?” former Arizona resident and Jerusalem based Rabbi Ian Pear of Shir Hadash asked my son Jacob on his first trip to Jerusalem. Jacob enthusiastically responded, “Yes.” Moments later, after spending time at...
Yom Kippur caffeine fix
by Debra Rich Gettleman Yom Kippur. The holiest day of our year. We delve deep into our own psyches to acknowledge failings, face painful truths about ourselves, and recognize where we have erred against others, ourselves, and God. Until…we have a bitter clanking in...
Love is the Answer – said no neo-Nazi ever!
by Debra Rich Gettleman What if there was a drug that could rid the world of hatred and antisemitism? Would you lobby to make it legal? I certainly would. Well, a guy known as Brendan, a leader of the Midwest faction of Identity Evropa, the infamous white supremacist...
@LawyerLimor Talks Sense
by Debra Rich Gettleman I must admit that I’m not one to tune in to celebrity gossip shows or find myself glued to the tube watching “Judge Judy” or “Divorce Court.” Full disclosure, I did watch a fair amount of the OJ trial, but that was mostly because I was living...
TURNING THE TABLES
By Debra Rich Gettleman When someone says “fashionista,” your first thought probably isn’t “prostitute.” But thanks to an innovative Israeli NGO, Turning the Tables, a small cadre of Israeli prostitutes in Tel Aviv and Haifa, are finding a way out of the oldest...
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