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When we see injustice, when we witness oppression, we are called to be menschen—women and men of integrity, compassion and goodness.

I was about nine years old yet I remember it as if it were yesterday.

Theodore Roosevelt did not even have a vice president for his first term in office, and several 19th century presidents never got around to filling the position at all. It wasn’t until Walter Mondale took the job under Jimmy Carter that the second-ranking official in government was entrusted with identifiable duties. 

I often find myself calculating how many good years I have left. And I know I’m both obsessive and sanguine.

Due to the general dearth of rain in Southern California that leaves most of us with little experience driving on wet roads, coupled with the ubiquity of oil and debris on the roads, Angelenos are known to exhibit signs of severe discombobulation at the first trickle of water on our windshields. 

Relying upon data supplied by the New York City Police Department, 94% of the reported incidents of violence between 2018 and 2022 were committed against Orthodox Jews, primarily in the neighborhoods where Hasidic Jews live.