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Posts Tagged ‘American Diversity’
Can African Americans Become Just (White) Folks
Study: Black students at white colleges fear losing cultural identity[...]
October 1st, 2013 - 9:52 am § in America
Of Communists and People of Color
Does Communist Detachment Create People of Color?: What happened to a Jewish family after Castro. Miriam B. Abrahams, a contributor at The Tablet, wrote a memoir of the death of her uncle, a Jew and a Communist, left behind when the rest of her family fled to the US. The uncle was estranged for [...]
September 26th, 2013 - 7:00 pm § in Uncategorized
Origins of Kashrut
Leviticus 11:5 And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. A lot of my recent posts have bounced off the behavior of my own family . More ty0icall7y, however I find myself responding to things I read at David Goldsteins blog, esp his weekly [&hellip[...]
September 26th, 2013 - 10:28 am § in Uncategorized
Schwartz Family: A Former Student Writes About Robert
Bob with his second wife, Betty. I am sure that Arnie’s comments (left) will mean a lot to her. from my sister’s website: by Arnie Berman, a former student at the time of Robert Schwarz’s death “I first met Bob almost 40 years ago when I was a 1st year medical[...]
September 17th, 2013 - 10:07 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
How Podments Can Solve Seattle’s Urban Parking Issue!
Make Amazon offer podments instead of parking spaces! Imagine if Amazon’s expected thousands of nerd employees wanted to buy cars! Where would they park? Read about the debate here. Sure, Jeff Bezos and company can build parking spaces under the worker hives, BUT … why not build underg[...]
September 14th, 2013 - 12:21 pm § in Hypocrisy
President Romney: Gramps #23
The First Lady made a humorous mistake today, welcoming her 23rd grandchild as her 22nd. “Our 22nd grand child was officially adopted today: Kieran James Romney. cc: @AnnDRomney pic.twitter.com/7t1ZFxOJS4″ Mr. Romney corrected his wife: “Our Josh and Jen also had a new baby boy y[...]
Hypocrisy on the left
Shortly after Mitt Romney selected a Veep, Melissa Harris-Perry took issue with Paul Ryan’s quoting Thomas Jefferson’s line in the Declaration of Independence. Ryan had boasted of Jefferson’s giving credit to the “Creator” for our rights ans humans, Melissa dissed Rya[...]
Are there Jewish atheists?
A World Without Jewish Atheists … no Israel, less science, worse law, massive loss of literature and art ???? I had not realized that this was even a question until my brother sent me a very derogatory email asking how could I, an atheist, have said Torah blessings at my kids’ bna[...]