Dear Friends:
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of a landmark piece of legislation - the Civil Rights Act of 1964. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, it was signed into law by JFK's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. And one hundred years after the Civil War, African America…
Dear Friends:
Over the last few weeks, as sirens have filled our collective heads - no matter where we live - and passion, compassion, grief, sorrow, fear and vitriol consumed our Facebook feeds, there has been one tune that has been playing over and over again in my head.
After the …
"To everything there is a
season, and a time for every
purpose under heaven.... A
time to love and a time to
hate, a time for war and a
time for peace...(Eccl…
Dear Friends:
This has been a harrowing and challenging month.
Since Operation Protective Edge began last Monday, more than 1000 rockets from Gaza have been indiscriminately fired at Israel and her civilians - Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze. With the increase range of the missiles,…
Dear Friends:
Independence Day is a time for parades, flag waving, red, white and blue clothing and face paint, barbeques, perhaps a reading of the Declaration of Independence and public displays of Roman candles. But the real fireworks came from a pen wielded in Philadelphia in 1776 by T…
