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A Presidents Day of Firsts
George Washington’s Birthday 1969 will always be remembered as a weekend of firsts for me. Our long weekend getaway up to the Borscht Belt was the place where I learned to ski for the very first time...
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Crying For America
I am crying for America. On the morning after the Presidential election in 2016, the first person who called me was my father, whose words were “I’m sitting shiva.” Shocked and in despair we mourned...
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The Man Who Will Never Be King
Every schoolchild knows George Washington’s rejection of an American monarchy was absolute. Little Donnie was too busy dipping a girl’s pigtails into the inkwell to pay attention during class....
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Down of The Farm with RFK Jr.
They’re coming to take me away haha Robert .F Kennedy Jr, the man with a worm in his brain, is not just going after the prescription drugs people use to prevent and manage depression. Bobby wants to...
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What Will it Take?
What will it take? I am sickened to the core. I can’t help but wonder what my brother-in-law who voted for Trump, a man whose parents and brother were Holocaust survivors, whose grandparents, aunts,...
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How Rugged is the Constitution?
America’s Constitution was once our insurance policy against tyranny. Against a dictator. There were laws. There were the checks and balances they created that served as our guardrail to prevent any...
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Russia’s Insatiable Appetite
On Monday, the world we knew shifted under our feet with 4 simple words- U.S. sides with Russia. Eighty years of foreign policy flip flopping gave me whiplash. I have spent several decades studying,...
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Is Trump Putin’s Puppet? Cold War Paranoia Here Today
A Russian-controlled puppet placed in the White House was the stuff of Cold War paranoia and pop culture Putin has done what the Soviets long dreamed of accomplishing- a Russian-controlled puppet...
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Ambassador of Peace No More
For several months, my collage “Ambassador of Peace- We are Friends” hung at the Hecksher Museum of Art. When I went to pick up my piece at the end of the show last week, it was with a very heavy...
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Toxic Trump vs Demure Democrtas
Last night Donald Trump came out locked and loaded with lethal lies. He spewed out his toxic partisan dribble and delusions with the rat-a-tat-tat speed of a Tommy Gun showering his vile words across...
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Eek! It’s a Transgender Mouse!
Eek! It’s a Transgender Mouse! Coming out of the closet, meet Annie, one of the transgender mice Trump claims we are spending millions of dollars on creating. This once-manly mouse named Andy was...
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Feeding The World’s Hungry -This Is Who We Are
How many of us of a certain age were admonished as children to “clean their plates” at mealtime because “people were starving in Europe.” Wasting food was sinful. Images of shivering, hungry,...
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International Women’s Day Celebrating Female Spirit
Eva Katz and her son Hershel 1946 in a Displaced Persons Camp, Germany. Photo Katz Family collection Today on International Women’s Day, along with the bravery of the Ukrainian women, I would be remiss...
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Ukraine, Jews, and a Traumatic History
Ukrainian blood runs through me. As does Russian blood. I am a descendent of Eastern European Jews. Centuries of shifting borders and maps redrawn create ambiguity over nationalities. But never over...
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Canada My Favorite Neighbor
Oh, Canada, we the people of America never wanted this breakup. Our commitment to Canada was once something unshakeable. True Blue. Literally written in stone. John F. Kennedy famously defined the...
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My Proustian Moment
While poking around the basement the other day, I unearthed a treasure that I hadn’t seen in decades- a well-worn wooden box of Cray-Pas from my childhood. As I carefully opened up the cedar-colored...
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Social Insecurity
I am now breaking into old childhood piggy banks in search of vintage coins that might be worth money. This is how terrified I am of losing social security. Not to mention the crashing stock market....
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Picturing Donald Trump
Watch out Jerry Saltz. There’s a new art critic in town, and he’s nasty Donald Trump who likely hasn’t been inside an art gallery or museum for over half a century – if ever- has gone on a tirade on...
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What in Your Life is Irreplaceable?
If you had to flee your home in an instant, what would be the one object you absolutely had to take with you? In a recent Zoom with friends, whose lives have been touched by the recent natural...
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Turning 70
Today I turn seventy, a number Hallmark decrees a milestone based on the number of greeting cards there are. I’ve moved through all my significant birthdays pretty smoothly. Thirty was a breeze, and...
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