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Launched singles/dating/relationship column in The Jewish Week. Here is my maiden effort
March 19, 2013
by Heather Robinson
March 19, 2013: Launched singles/dating/relationship column in The Jewish Week. Click here to read my maiden effort.
...Became Contributing editor at The New York Jewish Week
March 15, 2013
by Heather Robinson
March 15, 2013: Became Contributing editor at The New York Jewish Week, reporting and writing news and features about Jewish life in New York.
...Heckler makes some points, as does Walter Russell Mead
February 28, 2013
Last night at Committee for Accuracy in Mideast Reporting (CAMERA)’s talk at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y featuring Prof. Walter Russell Mead and Warren Kozac, journalist, called, “Political Earthquake in the Middle East: Are There...
Alusi on Hagel: ‘This is not a minister of defense, it’s a minister of chaos’
January 18, 2013
Spoke today with former Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al Alusi. Alusi, who has championed counterterrorism cooperation and normalized relations between Iraq and Israel and lost his two sons as a result, is dismayed by what he sees as President...
Became editor of The Blueprint Jewish Event Guide
January 15, 2013
by Heather Robinson
January 15, 2013: Became editor of The Blueprint Jewish Event Guide, coordinating three online magazines: New York Blueprint, Los Angeles Blueprint, and Jerusalem Blueprint.
...After Sandy Hook, are principles more precious than children?
December 22, 2012
On Friday, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a national effort to place armed security guards in every U.S. school, and offered the NRA’s assistance to the federal government for such an...
Media Pros Analyze Media Bias, Call for Harder-hitting Journalism at CSP Conference
December 20, 2012
Last Tuesday in Manhattan, media leaders tackled the subject of media bias at the National Security and New Media Conference & Mightier Pen Award Luncheon organized by the Washington D.C.-based Center for Security Policy (CSP).
The...
In the wake of Newtown, prioritize protecting children
December 20, 2012
In the aftermath of the massacre of 27 people last week at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, including 20 small children, it’s difficult to write anything. It is simply overwhelming, especially the savage...
In the aftermath of Operation Pillar of Defense
December 4, 2012
How tragic and terrible it is when Israel is forced to act in self-defense and, in so doing, despite best intentions, kills and injures civilians along with the terrorists. This piece from The Times of Israel explains with great humanity–as...
Why New Yorkers respect the NYPD as New York’s finest
November 30, 2012
NYPD Police Officer Larry DePrimo’s act of kindness has by now been broadcast on numerous talk shows. The 25-year-old police officer saw a homeless man walking without shoes, shaking on a 35 degree night (November 14) here in Manhattan,...