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March 22, 2013
You are a felon
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2013
“You are a felon.” Those were the words texted by one high school kid to another after the boy bragged via text about raping an unconscious 16 year old girl in Steubenville, Ohio.
A reaction to Obama’s speech in Jerusalem
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2013
This morning, as I listened to President Obama’s speech to students in Jerusalem, I was filled with frustration and mortification. I was watching the speech at the gym and read the words as they crossed the TV screen.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but those green onions scars will eventually heal
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Barack Obama: Leader of the free word
David Suissa
March 22, 2013
Words matter, especially when spoken by people of power. I once read a book that dissected the 271 words of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Would that speech have become historic if, instead of phrases like “a new birth of freedom,” he had used phrases like “a reaffirmation of our values”?
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