Rewriting Paradigms

For those of us who participated in the Women’s Marches on January 20th of this year, we experienced not only a testament to the endurance of the movement, but an interesting display of burgeoning activism on the part of the younger set. From toddlers hoisted on to mom or dad’s shoulders to those old enough to hoof it on their own and even lead the crowd in chants, kids played an active part in marches across the country, and worldwide. The passion displayed by those kids old

This quote from Elie Wiesel’s 1986 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, displayed in the window of our local JCC, gave me pause this past Fall. At the time, the rising crescendo of anti-45ism had reached one of a multitude of peak moments following the neo-Nazi uprising in Charlottesville, the mosque bombing in Minnesota, and ongoing feud between football players and certain of their owners as part of the growing take-a-knee movement. It was cacophonous. Everyone I knew was taking

2017 will be remembered by many as a year of darkness, the post-apocalyptic struggles of a nation living in fear of its own ineptitude. For those of more practical, perhaps even positive bent, it was a year of protest, the fight to replace that which we understand to be flawed, with a new and improved way of doing things, i.e. leading our nation, educating our children, protecting our planet, and providing for the health and welfare of all our citizens as we round out these f