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fear
After San Bernardino, don’t let fear change our daily routines
Jewish Journal
December 7, 2015
With the recent shooting in San Bernardino, television and social media have yet again brought images of fatalities and injuries and the grief of those directly affected into our homes.
The San Bernardino terrorists’ 6-month-old
Marty Kaplan
December 7, 2015
Think about the day she finds out who her parents were.
To be a Jew means ‘I love you’
Jewish Journal
November 23, 2015
On Thursday last week, a suicide bomber murdered forty three human beings in Beirut and injured two hundred and forty.
The Republicans’ rhetoric of hate and fear
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
Fear, laced with paranoia, is driving the American response against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States
Welcome the refugees
Jewish Journal
November 19, 2015
In the 1940s, politicians and the State Department saw the war ravaging Europe and said only Christians could enter this country as refugees, and only a select few at that.
In wealthy Paris hamlet, some Jews reconsider their future
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2015
Babette and Sasha Bergman lead what many would consider a charmed life.
The politics of fear threatens Israel from without and within
Jewish Journal
February 26, 2015
There was something surreal about visiting Israel last week. I had come to learn about Israel’s independent sector, and it was inspiring to see how nonprofits were taking up the task of shaping Israel’s future, regardless of who forms the next government.
Military rulers spread fear throughout Egyptian media
Jewish Journal
February 15, 2012
The ousting of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak one year ago was supposed to be the harbinger of an era of democracy, freedom, justice and, ultimately, freedom of press. But only a few days removed from the anniversary of Mubarak’s “departure,” journalists – foreign media and locals alike – are facing the heavy hand of the Egypt’s governing military council as they seek, day-by-day, to do their jobs.
Fear of an Obama Planet grips some Americans
Jewish Journal
July 17, 2008
As soon as I saw The New Yorker cover spoofing right-wing fear mongering over Barack and Michelle Obama, my first thought was that my friend, Sanjay, in Mumbai, India, had a point about Americans and stupidity.
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