When a family member has been abducted by Hamas
My heart is breaking for all of Israel. Just about every Jewish American has family member or friends who lives in Israel. The vast majority of Jews worldwide have been contacting everyone they know...
View Article#MeToo except if you’re a Jew – Antisemitism in the Anti-Rape Movement
The year before I got my start in anti-rape movement, a legal definitions for sex crimes was created (H.R.4876 – Sexual Assault Act of 1984). It wasn’t until nearly 20 years later that the first...
View ArticleSupport for male hostages who were sexually assaulted by Hamas
One of my goals in this series of articles is to break the myth that professional and survivor organizations, along with women’s groups don’t care about those who were sexually victimized by Hamas in...
View ArticleHamas, human trafficking and those being held hostage In Gaza
The American Psychological Association states that 7 in 10 human trafficking victims are women and girls. While boys and men are victims as well, most individuals identified as trafficked for both...
View ArticleClergy Sexual Abuse within Hamas
Over the years we have heard repeated accounts of Muslim clerics within ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas sanctioning their followers to rape and torture women, children and men as a tool of terrorizing the...
View ArticleMind Control: Pro Palestinians and MAGA Republicans
This video is an example of how “GroupThink” works. Over the last several years there has been a dramatic increase of hate crimes committed against individuals who are not White Christian Nationals or...
View ArticleWhat Wearing Dog Tags Honoring the Hostages Can Teach Us
Back in November I was in the Chicagoland area for a short visit. Like many others, my thoughts and prayer’s were and still are with Israel, the hostage’s and their family members. I wanted to do...
View ArticleCivil Rights of Women or the Civil Rights of Jews
Never in a million years did I think Americans would have to choose between women’s rights and the civil rights of Jews. As a liberal minded, feminist Jew, I have always supported the civil rights of a...
View ArticleAm I still considered to be American, or am I only seen as a Jew?
I always thought of myself as an American, who happens to be Jewish. I never thought about making one descriptor more important then the other. Both of my grandmothers were born in Chicago, along with...
View ArticleHersh Goldberg Polin – Hamas murdered a part of my DNA
I am speechless. I don’t have the words to express the degree of anger and devastation I feel after learning Hamas executed my cousin Hersh. I was really hopeful Hersh would make it home to the arms...
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