Tough love for Black Lives Matter
David Suissa
August 24, 2016
You have to hand it to Black Lives Matter. They have cojones.
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Dancing ‘til the end of music
David Suissa
August 11, 2016
When I was in my late teens, I listened to the second side of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album, pretty much every day for three weeks in a forest about an hour north of Montreal.
Politicians will never make us happy
David Suissa
July 27, 2016
According to a 2015 Pew report, just 19 percent of Americans say they can trust their government “always or most of the time,” while only 20 percent would describe government programs as “being well run.”
Israeli religious court goes off the deep end
David Suissa
July 13, 2016
Why would a rabbinic court in the world’s only Jewish state do something that would blatantly turn off most of the world’s Jews?
Black fathers matter, too
David Suissa
July 11, 2016
I shudder in rage whenever I see one of those videos showing police brutality. We all do.
Elie Wiesel — the Jew who taught us melancholy
David Suissa
July 3, 2016
Of all the contributions Eli Wiesel made to humanity as a global humanitarian, prolific author, Nobel laureate, proud Zionist, Judaic professor and Holocaust memoirist, maybe the least-talked about is his embracing of melancholy.
The occupation that killed Hallel Yaffa Ariel
David Suissa
July 1, 2016
It’s not the disputed occupation of the West Bank that convinced a 17-year-old Palestinian teenager to stab a 13-year-old Jewish girl to death while she was sleeping.
Micah Goodman’s fearless realism: A partial peace solution
David Suissa
June 29, 2016
One of the major obstacles to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is boredom. Years and years go by, and no one says anything new.
My visit to the Broken Wall
David Suissa
June 24, 2016
I could never have imagined that I would find something missing in the Western Wall, that epic monument to Jewish suffering and collective memory that I have been visiting for decades.
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