
Remembering Annette Shapiro: A Smile Eternal
Maintaining a positive disposition so consistently is difficult to pull off. I know I can’t.

Maintaining a positive disposition so consistently is difficult to pull off. I know I can’t.

On Monday, the council will vote on a motion to cut ties with Israel.

“Good for America” should enter the American Jewish bloodstream. Just as we make lots of noise fighting antisemitism, let’s make lots of noise fighting for America.

The minyan included mechanics, replete with the mandatory oil-stained hands and grime beneath their fingernails.

Trump’s administration has been conducting a multi-front war against America’s oldest university, freezing previously approved federal research grants, restricting international student visas, and targeting the school’s tax-exempt status.

“Her prose disrupted my mind,” I wrote, “confronting me with words I had never seen come together before.”

We may be able to tolerate an irrational mob that goes after anything associated with Israel, but academics whose lives revolve around the search for truth and knowledge?

The courage it takes for this father to share his son’s story and relive that tragedy is beyond words.

How wonderful it would be if instead of shandas and stoopers, we had courageous leaders who refused to be part of any “big tent” that included antisemites, racists, and those who would slander and undermine the state of Israel.

For a Jewish Democrat, there is no good option between Al-Sayed and Donald Trump. That decision will carry immense political ramifications far beyond Michigan’s borders.




