In Gaza/Israel/Palestine/Judea/Canaan [1] I start to write this shortly after the news that Hamas massacred over a thousand people, taking over two hundred hostages back into Gaza; while in retaliation, Israel has been bombing Gaza into rubble, neighborhood by neighborhood, killing thousands. The carnage only promises to expand and escalate. I shed tears…

I wouldn't include a sweatshop owner in this list. Although Jordache was better than most - it was signatory with the ILGWU for a while - it farmed out most work to foreign sweatshops, like just about everyone else in the industry. If you must include a capitalist, I would…

Two peoples who each suffered oppression; Two families finding common ground — Over three millennia ago, Moses’ sister Miriam complained about her sister-in-law. “He (Moses) married a Black (Cushite) woman!” For her racist outburst, God imposed an appropriate punishment: Miriam’s skin turned super-white and flaked off; she had to quarantine for a week to ponder what she did. See Numbers 12. Ever…

I suppose I'm also a member of that "AA club." I got into Berkeley (then called Boalt) Law School only because of its Affirmative Action admissions program at that time. Not that they had a shortage of white Jewish men. But the way that Affirmative Action was applied there at…

I personally experienced discrimination as a Jew for the first time when we lived in Kansas, briefly, in the early '70s. So, when a "Black Power" speaker came to our high school, I was excited to have someone else I could relate to. But in response to my expression of…

Let me preface my comments by noting that I have known and worked with both the people making the racist comments, and those against whom the comments were directed. So, this hurts on many levels. What disturbed me the most was not just the words used by the four (three…

I am happy to report that the Bright Path Strong campaign to restore Jim Thorpe's rightful place in Olympic history has finally been successful. On Friday, July 15, 2022, The IOC announced that Thorpe’s records would be reinstated, and he was formally acknowledged as the sole gold medalist in pentathlon…

There is a big chunk of history you have ignored in this article. Let me fill you in: My wife's uncle was one of the Black soldiers who helped liberate concentration camps in WWII. He came back to the United States to the hateful racism here. Some other returning Black…

An Open Letter to the California Fair Employment and Housing Council On the Failure To Fulfill Its Purpose[1]/ — Previously, I wrote in a general sense Why Our Laws Against Discrimination Have Failed. Here is a version of an Open Letter I sent to the California Fair Employment Housing Council, describing in more detail how they have failed its mission to end discrimination. While this is addressed to the…