A career becomes more rewarding when it supports rather than consumes the rest of life. Wealth becomes more meaningful when it creates security and enables generosity.
Students like me have come to understand that pro-Israel students being othered is the new campus normal. It shouldn’t be.
I just completed a project I started in November 2023: taking each of my three sons on vacation separately.
More than half a century later, I remember the punishing hills, but I also remember the chaplain who saw a brother rather than merely a soldier, and a Jewish community that made a young man from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, feel at home.
Raman repeated her previously-stated opinion that the Israeli military’s efforts to protect its country’s people from terrorist attack constituted genocide. Bass said that it did not.
Was a single day’s attack, no matter how savage, too brief to qualify as genocide? It turns out that duration has never been the legal test.
The war in Gaza may be in abeyance, but Islamist expansionist ideology has shown great gumption and forward movement. All the crazies have come out since October 7, 2023.
Perhaps Sept. 30 showed up right before we paid tribute to Oct. 7 to deliver this message: Remember the tragedies but never forget the miracles.
In those moments when we have needed leadership most, our Congressman has been silent.
It’s hard to imagine commemorating such a dark event on a day of joy. The cognitive dissonance would be unbearable.
