If Only We Could Be Like These Kindergarteners

On December 4, 2009,

Like lots of Jew­ish par­ents, my hus­band and I grap­pled with whether to keep our kids in a synagogue-run school or go pub­lic. We made the deci­sion to try pub­lic kinder­garten after mov­ing to an area where the near­est syn­a­gogue school was about half an hour away. There were times that we wor­ried our daugh­ters would feel iso­lated in […]

Get Tiger Out of the Woods

On November 30, 2009,

What is it about pro golfer Tiger Woods’ recent car crash that has cap­ti­vated the world? Is it because he is one of the great­est ath­letes of all time? Or because he has gone to great lengths to keep his pri­vate life pri­vate? Is it because tabloids are spread­ing rumors that he’s involved in a love […]

Breaking Silos: Greater Transparency Vital in Terrorist Investigations

On November 21, 2009,

The sil­ver screen is infa­mous for fea­tur­ing bum­bling intel­li­gence agents who hoard sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion from local agen­cies. This is not too far from the truth when it comes to the blood­bath at Ft. Hood. Con­sider the FBI mon­i­tored email exchanges released Sat­ur­day in the Wash­ing­ton Post. True to Oscar Wilde’s quote, “Real­ity imi­tates art far […]

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