How do I convince my relative that she is wrong to be so concerned with animal rights & veganism? She is a good person but its seems that she is more concerned w/animal welfare than people welfare. Where did this attitude come from? Bernadette Dear Bernadette, We have a two-word answer for you: You don’t....
In January 2007, in a dazzling speech at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Steve Jobs introduced his iPhone with these words, “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything…” On June 4th, 1940, Winston Churchill gave a speech warning of a possible Nazi invasion. This was its climax: “We shall defend...
A ‘Your Mother’s Guidance’ post by Rebecca Masinter In Exodus 15:20, Miriam leads the Jewish women in song after the splitting of the Red Sea. Actually, if you look at the verses closely, she started while still in the middle of the sea! And it wasn’t just singing: these women had musical instruments ready for...
Picture this scene. Your eight-year-old daughter comes running in with blood pouring down her hand. Sobbing, she explains that her teenage sister left the food processor cutting blade in a sudsy sink full of water. When younger sibling reached in to get a spoon, she badly cut herself. In addition to bandaging up the wound,...
As a chef, I have a question pertaining to the traditional Passover meal. The traditional Seder dinner typically includes gefilte fish, matzo ball soup, brisket or roast chicken, potato kugel and carrot and prune tzimmes. Now, we know that none of these foods originated in ancient Israel – they’re from a later period in Jewish...
Progressive societies tend to quickly impose restrictions on behaviors that are considered dangerous to ‘society’. Occasionally, this goal of providing security for society is achieved at the cost of people’s freedoms but progressive voters don’t doubt that the exchange is a worthwhile one. For instance, some people, many of them thoughtful and educated parents, choose...
If there is one thing that, until now, I have never been accused of, it is being a helicopter parent. If anything, more than a few of our children’s friends’ parents thought that my husband and I allowed our children too much independence. One of our daughters was incredibly upset that we did not sign...
Our hearts and prayers go out to our Christian friends whose co-religionists were massacred on one of the holiest days of their year. This is a crime not only against them, but against all humanity.
I recently wrote about the #Walkaway Movement, founded by Brandon Straka, as one of the bright lights on the American horizon. I avoided mentioning one aspect of his crusade that I do think deserves discussion. I would like to do so now. How I can ally with them and, more so, greatly appreciate their involvement...
Landing an American on the moon and bringing him home again in 1969 was a multi-year project that involved all Americans. A few directly but most through willingly paying their taxes that underwrote the huge expense. Building Notre Dame Cathedral on its island, with its sandstone walls, its rib vaults and its flying buttresses took …
