Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 22, 2020
“Educated” Hate—Like That of NY Times’ Amanda Hess
Yes, chatty little “everyone-knows” assertions can develop into virulent violent acts of rage with the turn of a page,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 7, 2020
Get With It, America—a Teenager’s Appeal for Religious Tolerance
With everything going on in the world right now, it is time to change. It is time to stop condoning discrimination of any...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 13, 2020
Disney: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on A&E
The loss in viewership, attributed to A&E’s cancellation of its police show, Live PD, exposed a suppurating inoperable tumor...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 1, 2020
Flipping the Bigots
When he awoke the following morning, #JewishPrivilege was again trending on Twitter, but not because of the anti-Semites who...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 22, 2020
Bigotry: Nothing Funny About That
If someone were to make a list of the top 10 least funny things, “bigotry” would undoubtedly make the cut. There’s very...
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Religious Literacy
January 26, 2020
My Seasonal Pilgrimage: Coming Together, Coming Home
No one’s religion was cause for offense. No difference in color, social standing, job or education impacted the way we interacted.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 30, 2019
How Good People Can Become Bigots
If bigotry were simple, we would have already solved it. But it isn’t and we haven’t. So here’s a look at the roots...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 23, 2019
The Most Precious Thing
Nearly a thousand years ago a great army besieged a castle. Day after day, the army bombarded it with great boulders and flaming...
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Media & Ethics
August 17, 2019
Tony Ortega: A Nettle of Fiction and Failure
It may be hard to spot the common denominator of all of Ortega’s flops, but I’ll tell you what I see.
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Religious Literacy
August 12, 2019
The Old Jew: A Story About Wisdom
I had not told the old man that I was expecting my first child, but somehow he knew. And I never forgot.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 3, 2019
The Swastika in the Bathroom
You walk into the bathroom and a large, black graffitied swastika greets you. It’s big, it’s ugly and it exudes an almost...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 4, 2019
The Aftermath of the “Aftermath”
Most people are decent: They are constructive, creative, welcoming and social…
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 25, 2019
Everyday Actions to Combat Bigotry
Help End Religious Intolerance Wherever You Are Some of the moms I know are total superheroes, and I recently felt compelled...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 14, 2019
House Passes Anti-Bigotry Resolution
No matter what the politics were behind it, no matter what backroom deals and compromises spawned it, no matter what debates,...
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Media & Ethics
February 15, 2019
Speaking Out Against “Mainstream” Bigotry
What if all people of goodwill, whether Muslim, Christian, Mormon, Scientologist or whatever, upon hearing any antifaith propaganda...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 22, 2019
An Open Farewell Letter to the Makers of Family Guy
Your recent mentions of Scientology make Comedy Central’s “Drunk History” look like the World Book Encyclopedia.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 1, 2019
Hate, Inc.: The Marketing of Bigotry for Profit
Bricks through windows, swastikas scrawled on synagogues, charred African-American churches, knocked-over tombstones in Jewish...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 15, 2018
Big Bigotry Goes Mainstream: Remini & Disney Attack Jehovah’s Witnesses
How exactly do you ask, in politically correct terms: “What religious group can we profit from the most by misrepresenting...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 1, 2018
Disney: How Do I Explain Bigotry to My Granddaughter?
Perhaps I could tell her that the movie characters she admires—those who stand up for their beliefs, who overcome obstacles...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 21, 2018
What Is It That Bigots Hate? That You Communicate.
When you look at bigotry (or more succinctly “hate”) as one person’s desire to ensure the target of the bigotry stops...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 26, 2018
The Rabbi and the Bigot—A Story of Redemption
A few days later, the Rabbi found a package on his front walk containing anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi pamphlets and a card reading:...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 30, 2018
Interview with an Asterisk
Please, just call me “*”—that’s what my friends all call me.
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