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"Soul On Fire": In Memoriam Elie Wiesel

Diatribe ahead! Liberal! Liberal! Liberal! I am a proud Jewish liberal and if you don't like that than too bad! I cannot stand Trump. He is a very wicked man...I'm not just talking politician. Hillary Clinton was not my choice...Bernie Sanders was...but I think I'm voting for her anyway. I'm afraid if I support third party it will give the vote to Trump and G-D knows that would be a BIIIIIIIG mistake. This is my profile page and I will publish my opinion on my own wall. Yeah, years ago I was a right-wing conservative but after educating myself and soul-searching I changed my political views. Maybe some of the Trumpets should do the same. So, if you support Trump and don't like what I say you have two choices. You can go to my profile page and right by the "Friends" button there is a "following" box enabled by default. You can remain my friend and "unfollow" me. Or, you can "unfriend" me...because I am not going to change or hi...

Inside Homan Square: 'They shackled me to the bench' – exclusive video | US news | The Guardian

CHANGING LANES: Giving homeless a voice to be heard - NEWS - The Hingham Journal - Hingham, MA HINGHAM I have a friend named James Shearer. Born in the south, we both prefer the north. As fourth graders we were both voracious readers who won prizes for how much we read. As teens, we both found a release in writing that helped us transcend difficult circumstances. Life has been hardest for both of us when we were suffering writer’s block. Today, we are both columnists and take great joy in that privilege. We have some differences. I went to prep school and James grew up in the projects. James is a black man and I am a white woman. James used to be homeless. I used to be wealthy. But really, we’re both just people. (Continued at the above link...)

Watershed Creation In the Huffington Post, Rev. Donald Heckman recently said that the interfaith movement has a "brand" problem.  In the face of the terrorism, hatred and violence of our time, I would say that those of us committed to moving beyond triumphal religion have more than a brand problem.  We have to raise the ante by moving our interfaith dialogue to interfaith action on a far greater scale than the individual efforts of local faith-based community organizing or even the national coordinators of such local efforts. It is not enough to welcome an opportunity to be invited into a conversation at the White House.  SCLC would need the Federal government in forging successes for its movement, but the power of the Civil Rights movement was its rootedness in religious vision AND its capacity to harness that vision to serious political action.  I offer the following analysis for consideration by fellow religious pluralists, in the face of the contemporary human c...

Chicago Police Use Local News Media to Downplay Secret Torture Site Justin King February 25, 2015 ( ANTIMEDIA )   CHICAGO, IL  – Amid controversy over the Chicago Police Department’s off the books interrogation site, the  Chicago Sun-Times  ran a  piece  fully exonerating the police department, by basing the article entirely off statements made by the police department. Don’t worry good citizens, the police have investigated themselves in less than 24 hours and found they’ve done nothing wrong. The opening paragraph of the masturbatory fantasy that might as well have been written by CPD’s public affairs division states that the building exists, and apparently this disproves all allegations. “Police officials responded that the facility isn’t used to violate suspects’ rights — and isn’t even secret.” (Continued at the above link Justin King February 25, 2015 ( ANTIMEDIA )   CHICAGO, IL  – Amid controversy over the Chicago Police Department...

Subpoenas issued, lawyer assigned in the Drew Peterson murder-for-hire case | Justice Café Subpoenas have been issued for a  Chris Straub  and  Brian Clark  in Drew Peterson’s solicitation of murder case.

John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 6 days, and 79 other facts about the '80s You may wish that you had "Jessie's Girl," but did you know Rick Springfield had a role on  General Hospital  in 1981? Some of the other lesser-known '80s tidbits include the fact that John Hughes wrote  Ferris Bueller's Day Off  in just six days, and Prince wrote The Bangles' "Manic Monday.  Click the above link for more fun facts!

Time Warner Cable calls customer “C**t” after she reports cable box problem | Ars Technica Time Warner Cable (TWC) isn't yet a part of Comcast, but it's taking after its potential parent company in one very unfortunate way. Comcast customers have complained about their billing account names being changed to insults like " asshole ," " whore ," "dummy," and " super bitch ." Now, the same thing has happened to a Time Warner Cable customer named Esperanza Martinez. (continued at link above)

We Jews must face the reality of discrimination on the West Bank | Shaiya Rothberg | The Blogs | The Times of Israel This blog is a “Human Rights Report Review”. The report I’m reviewing is called  One Rule, Two Legal Systems: Israel’s Regime of Laws in the West Bank  and it was published by  The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)  in October of 2014. In the review, I’ll briefly present the contents of the report. I’ll also say what parts of it I accept and what conclusions I draw from it. I know that a lot of reasonable people who care about Israel are cynical about “human rights”. They see how racists and fundamentalists sometimes use “human rights” rhetoric as a justification for criminal violence against Israeli Jews. And they see anti-Israel bigotry parading as “human rights activism” on college campuses and other places. And so they write off “human rights” altogether. But the difference between real and bogus human rights discourse is easy to iden...

The Best Time To Buy Flights, Because Not Using Vacation Days Should Be Illegal Finding cheap flights is complicated. But what if there were a magical day when you'd be guaranteed to find them at their absolute cheapest? Surprise! There is.  Forty-seven days before takeoff is when domestic plane tickets are at their absolute cheapest , according to a study of 2014 flight data from online travel agency  CheapAir . The number is seven days sooner than  last year's estimate  of 54 days before takeoff -- it's based on 1.5 billion fares from 2014, while last year's study analyzed data from 2013. (continued at above link)

Watch: Second Comcast customer gets profane bill - UPI.com ADDISON, Ill., Feb. 5 (UPI) --  An Illinois woman said she was shocked and outraged to discover her Comcast cable TV bill referred to her as "Super [expletive]," using a word for a female dog. Mary Bauer, 63, of Addison, said she had been having trouble with her Comcast TV service and she needed to have 39 visits from technicians between November 2013 and April 2014. Read more:  http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/02/05/Comcast-bill-names-customer-as-Super-B/4201423153556/#ixzz3Qtg9ymcT

The Gacy Files: One Detective's Quest to Identify A Serial Killer's Lost Victims - BuzzFeed News Thirty-five years after Chicago’s infamous “killer clown” was convicted for murdering 33 men, eight of John Wayne Gacy’s victims remained unidentified.  Jason Moran, Cook County’s one-man cold case unit, has made it his mission to find those names, exposing what has been called our criminal justice system’s “silent mass disaster.” (to continue reading click on highlighted link above)

Polaneczky: TSA jails innocent traveler when he asks to file a complaint APPARENTLY, working as a supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia International Airport comes with a perk: You get to throw people in jail for no good reason and still keep your job. If that's not the case, why is Charles Kieser still employed by the TSA? Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150204_TSA_jails_innocent_traveler_when_he_asks_to_file_a_complaint.html#1VS2RlKct8yV5KEW.99

AJC Remembers Victims, Survivors on International Holocaust Remembrance Day - AJC: Global Jewish Advocacy AJC REMEMBERS VICTIMS, SURVIVORS ON INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY January 25, 2014 – New York – In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, AJC issued the statement below. The United Nations designated January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, as the day for the world body and countries around the world to recall and commemorate the Nazi destruction of six million Jews. For this occasion, AJC re-released its short film on the Nazi death camp, Belzec. More than 500,000 Jews were slaughtered there in less than a year. Only two Jews survived. Ten years ago, a memorial and museum were dedicated at Belzec, a joint project of AJC and the Polish government.  Full text of AJC statement: We Remember In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). On January 27, we commemorate International Holo...

Nanotech in the Negev: Israeli scientists see big opportunity in tiny tech - TechRepublic

Caroline B. Glick: Norway's Jewish problem Jewish World Review August 9, 2011 / 9 Menachem-Av, 5771 Norway's Jewish problem By Caroline B. Glick Norway's government attacked the author for merely pointing out in various ways, that Norway should not use Breivik's attack as justification for further weakening Norwegian democracy http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In the wake of Anders Breivik's massacre of his fellow Norwegians, I was amazed at the speed with which the leftist media throughout the US and Europe used his crime as a means of criminalizing their ideological opponents on the Right. Just hours after Breivik's identity was reported, leftist media outlets and blogs were filled with attempts to blame Breivik's crime on conservative public intellectuals whose ideas he cited in a 1,500 page online manifesto. M...