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Iraqi Parliamentarian to President Obama: Do Not Give Up on Iraq
August 19, 2014
by Heather Robinson
In a phone interview from Iraq last week, Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al Alusi thanked U.S. President Barack Obama for his decision to conduct air strikes against ISIS and urged the U.S. President to “make it clear to extremists the...
Israel: if we are not for ourselves, who will be for us?
July 30, 2014
by Heather Robinson
Earlier today a friend brought to my attention a recent blog post by James Howard Kunstler, a writer on environmental and economic issues. With all the tragic news coming out of the Mideast, I think the analysis of this man – who is not...
Hamas’s child victims and Israel’s survival
July 19, 2014
by Heather Robinson
Today I am thinking of Israelis and Palestinians, and all the children on both sides who deserve so much better than what they have, especially Palestinian children, because their leaders in Gaza simply do not value these children’s...
Should the Stain of a Youthful Mistake Last Forever?
July 8, 2014
by Heather Robinson
From The Jewish Week
In June’s Vanity Fair magazine, Monica Lewinsky, now 40, asks the world to reconsider who she is. In her essay, “Shame and Survival,” she writes about how, since 1998, when the news broke about her affair with...
Eric Cantor: dumped for having a heart?
June 11, 2014
by Heather Robinson
Yesterday brought the stunning political news that U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia lost his seat to a Tea Party challenger, David Brat, who accused Cantor of betraying conservative principles on spending, debt, and...
From Belarus, Without Love
June 3, 2014
by Heather Robinson
From The Jewish Week
Changing dating expectations in a city where men won’t grow up.
At 20, living in a small town in Belarus, Olga (not her real name) placed her picture on a website for American men interested in meeting Russian...
Valentine’s Is A Rotten Day To Be Single
April 28, 2014
by Heather Robinson
From New York Post
The day after New Year’s, the assault begins. Scanning the drugstore’s aisles for cold medicine, you come face-to-face with a pink and white teddy bear holding up a heart-shaped “Be mine” sign. Turn the corner to...
Table for One: Product Placement
April 28, 2014
by Heather Robinson
From The Jewish Week
“… fools give you
reasons, wise men never try.”
— From Rodgers and
Hammerstein’s “South Pacific”
Alison Greenberg, 40, a Manhattan marketer, has been online dating...
People minus propaganda = possibilities for peace
March 2, 2014
by Heather Robinson
“Israel Apartheid Week,” a movement analogizing Israel to apartheid-era South Africa and calling for blanket boycotts of Israeli products, divestment from companies that do business with Israel, and an end to academic cooperation...
Scarlett brave and beautiful
February 17, 2014
by Heather Robinson
Although I’m a few weeks late, I wanted to mention that actress Scarlett Johansson deserves praise for honoring her contract with Israeli home carbonation company SodaStream. (To recap: she appeared in a halftime advertisement for the...