As many of us sit down to bountiful Thanksgiving dinners, it’s all too easy to forget about the more than 17,000 homeless people in the midst of well-off Massachusetts. We have the seventh highest per capita rate of homelessness in the nation, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. This, in the state ranked …
Continue reading Homeless in Massachusetts left helpless by selfish solons
For decades, a generation of students, often protected by their parents from information and views that might disturb them, arrived on college campuses demanding that administrators continue to protect them from feeling hurt by uncomfortable ideas or stressed by robust discussions of the harsh realities of a complex world. They called out microaggressions and insisted on trigger …
Continue reading Student embrace of Hamas – willfully ignorant and antiSemitic
Remember Entebbe? Look it up. It was the site of a 1976 Israeli operation to rescue 248 hostages from an Air France flight captured by Palestinian terrorists and given sanctuary by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. The non-Israelis were quickly released, except for the Air France crew. The roughly100 hostages who were Israelis were hidden in …
Continue reading Wrestling with the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war
No matter how heavy the topic of the following books any one of them can be a temporary departure from the world around us, helping us better understand the seeds of today's chaos . Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler, longtime classical music critic of …
Continue reading Books for autumn reading, pt. 2 – non-fiction
Marjorie Arons-Barron 