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How My Pittsburgh Hometown Is Coping With The Synagogue Shooting
November 1, 2018
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Post
The Jewish community in this leafy Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill is painfully burying 11 of its members this week, after the idyllic peace here was shattered by an anti-Semitic madman on a mindless killing...
Midterm Update: Will Battleground States Swing?
October 22, 2018
In advance of the Congressional midterm elections November 6, all eyes are on the swing states and perhaps especially those rust belt states, like Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (pictured above), that surprised everyone by going red in the...
Ford vs. Kavanaugh: Where is the Evidence?
September 28, 2018
Today, as most of the country knows, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate – she to accuse him of sexual assault some 35 years ago, he to defend his life’s work, his good name,...
Authenticity Lets ‘Insecure’ Rise Above America’s Divisions
August 29, 2018
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Post
HBO’s hit comedy series “Insecure,” now in its third season, has been holding steady with a loyal and diverse audience, and it’s no wonder: In a time of divisive tribalism in America,...
‘Pretty Woman’ Heads to Broadway — Still Sugar-Coating Ugly Truths
August 4, 2018
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Post
“Pretty Woman: The Musical,” an adaptation of the 1990 blockbuster film with Julia Roberts about a gorgeous, young prostitute and a handsome, taciturn billionaire who fall in love, is set to open on Broadway Aug....
What We Can All Learn From the Trapped Thailand Soccer Kids
July 13, 2018
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Post
This week, the world watched with bated breath as 12 boys, members of The Wild Boars soccer team, and their coach were rescued from deep inside an underwater cave in Thailand.
It was a situation that had...
On Independence Day, Remember Freedom Depends on Transcending Divides
July 10, 2018
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Post
This Independence Day, instead of despairing over the country’s division, Americans might take a moment to consider that independence includes having the right to disagree without hatred or violence.
Since the 2016...
What Mr. Rogers Understood About NYC Neighborhoods
June 25, 2018
by Heather Robinson
From The New York Post
Mister Rogers would’ve been sad about the way we treat each other.
That thought occurred to me as I sat in a Kips Bay theater one afternoon last week, escaping the heat and watching “Won’t You Be My...
Iraqi Parliamentarian, Friend of US and Israel, Calls for ‘Mideast Summit’ as Islamists Burn Ballots in Baghdad
June 19, 2018
by Heather Robinson
From The Algemeiner
Iraqi Foreign Ministry Officials Tried to Shelter Alleged Rapist, Murderer of Jewish Teen, Says Parliamentarian
June 12, 2018
by Heather Robinson
Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al Alusi told me Tuesday that officials in Iraq’s foreign ministry attempted to prevent the extradition to Germany of a man accused of raping and murdering a German-Jewish teenager.
Susanna Maria Feldman,...