Category: Current Events (and stuff)
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For Holocaust Remembrance Day, I Watched a Friend Fall for QAnon and into Anti-Semitism
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of when Auschwitz was liberated and the horror of the Holocaust began to truly reveal itself to the world. Instead of sharing the usual photos of emaciated bodies behind barbed wire and spouting #NeverForget hashtags, I want to offer a personal story—one that’s much more recent and…
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4 Ways to Tell if Information is Real or Fake: Advice from a Former Journalist
When I was a daily newspaper reporter, I always had to navigate through multiple versions of a story before I learned what really happened. We have a saying in journalism. It goes, “There are three sides to every story: side one, side two, and the Truth.” The Truth usually falls somewhere between the first two…
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I Have a Right to Protect Myself and My Loved Ones, Too
To all those angry protestors out there, yelling at people for wearing masks, refusing to respect reporters’ requests to stay six feet back, and screaming in the faces of police officers, I have a message for you: I HAVE A RIGHT TO PROTECT MYSELF AND MY FAMILY, TOO. If I want to wear a mask…
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How Entering the Obama Era from Israel Helps Me Come to Terms with Trump
I wrote this narrative/op-ed on Jan. 20, 2017–the day President Donald Trump was inaugurated. I submitted it to a couple of publications, but it was never accepted fast enough to be timely. I hate to see it go to waste, and therefore decided to publish it here. I thought some of you might enjoy the…