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Should we remember the Holocaust without mentioning the Jews?

Do Jews have a special claim on the historic catastrophe of the Holocaust? Do words with accepted meanings still hold those meanings, even in the age of Donald Trump? The Cambridge, Oxford, Collins,...

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Stop Ryan’s attack on America’s safety net

What kind of America would we have if we allowed Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare Repeal Plan to pass? According to the AARP, the Ryan plan to repeal Obamacare would dramatically increase healthcare costs...

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Stop Ryan’s attack on America’s safety net

What kind of America would we have if we allowed Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare Repeal Plan to pass? According to the AARP, the Ryan plan to repeal Obamacare would dramatically increase healthcare costs...

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Much pain for the many, to benefit the richest few

The tax bills just passed by the House and the Senate are each an historically catastrophic disaster for most Americans in general, and for most New Jerseyans in particular. These bills still need to...

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Should we remember the Holocaust without mentioning the Jews?

Do Jews have a special claim on the historic catastrophe of the Holocaust? Do words with accepted meanings still hold those meanings, even in the age of Donald Trump? The Cambridge, Oxford, Collins,...

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Stop Ryan’s attack on America’s safety net

What kind of America would we have if we allowed Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare Repeal Plan to pass? According to the AARP, the Ryan plan to repeal Obamacare would dramatically increase healthcare costs...

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Stop Ryan’s attack on America’s safety net

What kind of America would we have if we allowed Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare Repeal Plan to pass? According to the AARP, the Ryan plan to repeal Obamacare would dramatically increase healthcare costs...

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Much pain for the many, to benefit the richest few

The tax bills just passed by the House and the Senate are each an historically catastrophic disaster for most Americans in general, and for most New Jerseyans in particular. These bills still need to...

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Defend Our Borders, But Keep Our Values

The US Constitution prohibits the removal of illegal immigrants from America without due process. US law and every major faith on Earth also require that we welcome the stranger seeking asylum. It is...

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Big Brother takes giant steps in China: How they could affect us all

A totalitarian data-collection policy that is redefining what it means to be a free person has global implications

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Condemn all acts of racism and anti-Semitism, from whomever

We sure are an odd political couple: A Centrist/Liberal Democrat who is a former U.S. Congressman from Bergen County and a Conservative former Chairman of the Bergen County Republican Party. We join...

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The Human Future In The Great Age of Computers

Will self-learning computers, initially programmed by humans, continue to be governed by the judgments of our relatively slow-thinking homo sapiens species? According to Yuval Noah Harari, whose three...

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On Israel: Do The Actions of a Few Define The Many?

If I read one more article about the two new Democratic House members, out of the 235 Democrats there, who are suspect or worse on Israel, I think I’ll plotz. These pieces, usually written by...

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GOP’s election efforts are more of a threat to Jews & America than The Squad

Would America still be a safe place for all Americans, including American Jews, if the United States was to become a country where the person who lost the presidential election could be installed as...

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The Taliban don’t completely control Afghanistan – maybe it never will

China and Russia are right to be nervous anyway People who think they know what will happen in Afghanistan need to hold off on their predictions. The Taliban don’t have complete control over...

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A Dangerous, Odd and Unconstitutional Texas Law

“It is legal because I wish it.” Louis XIV. The new Texas anti-abortion law is unconstitutional as its purpose and effect is to hinder, if not to entirely prevent, the free exercise of a Texas woman’s...

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Why I’m Cautiously Optimistic For America

The general mood in America is one of near exhaustion and some concern. Since the Spring of 2020, many have been stressed to the max: Tens of millions who feared or suffered the loss of their jobs or...

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