As all people who specialize in brainwashing know, a key feature of the brainwashing process is repeating the same lies over and over again to a captive audience of initiates.
I do not like what Israel is doing right now in Gaza. No Jew in my world likes what Israel is doing. But the situation is extraordinarily complicated, has deep historical context, and deserves a nuanced view instead of a wide brush.
In light of Judaism’s well-known position that the actions of any Jew, good or bad, impact the entire Jewish community, how can we not feel a profound sense of shame about what the IDF has been doing in Gaza in our name?
The lack of local emergency veterinary care places undue stress on both animals and their families and exposes the limitations of our current resources.
Our nation may be waking up. Immigration and the fear of the other was the Trump linchpin for his electoral success, and the polls now show a turning away from his brutal enforcement and his deportation policies.
I see this controversy as a distracting sideshow to the even larger, scandalous, and pervasive abuses of the welfare of millions of our minor citizens, abuses embedded as fiscal time bombs in the recently passed federal budget bill.
It all started quite innocently. While standing on a corner on Market Street in San Francisco, I was approached by two very friendly young people who struck up a conversation with me. Always game for random social interaction, I wandered down the street with them.
I am amazed the MAGA faithful have been mostly silent on all the law-breaking, horrid, cruel—add you own adjective here—acts Trump has gotten away with, only to find the Epstein files to be what has shaken the MAGA bedrock. Who knew?
Before the election, after Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and other right-wing conspiracy theorists claimed that the FBI had the Epstein file but refused to release it because Bill Clinton and other Democrats were likely included, the MAGA drums were beating for raw meat.
That Great Barrington has a housing shortage is indisputable—both affordable and market-rate housing. I think that every person on Mahaiwe Street is in agreement. I am concerned about the wholesale selling of our community to developers without input from us.
