Author: Deane Berson
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The infirmities and benefits of growing older gracefully
I was 60 in the picture accompanying this column. Now that I’m 82, loving family and friends sometimes wishfully ask me, “Is everything OK?” I think to myself, “Everything?” When has that been so? Insecurities of youth–school, grades, friends? Career; finding a good wife? Wellbeing of family and friends? And, what if one doesn’t have…
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GUEST COLUMN: Bias against Israel and Jews impacts all of humanity
Being an American Jew from birth, I am naturally biased on behalf of America and Israel. The Ten Commandments given to Jews at Mount Sinai to benefit all of humanity are biases differentiating good from bad. Is it bad to have biases and good to be free of them? Let’s see by comparing the following…
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GUEST COLUMN: Bridging the gap between ‘us’ and ‘them’
A man murders five and wounds 17 in a club that welcomes people who used to live in the shadows. In recent years, while still sometimes mistreated, people with same-sex attraction, alternative sexual identities, etc. have gained more acceptance than perhaps ever before in modern history. Many of the 53 clergy and others whose thoughts…
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GUEST COLUMN: Speaking up on behalf of America
We are approaching a critical mass of scared Americans yielding to fear. Each of us must summon courage to resume being “the home of the brave,” and thereby “the land of the free.” The suicide of a nation is incomprehensible. Yet, our numerous scared people are helping our comparatively few but powerful scarers commit autoAmericide.…
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GUEST COLUMN: A peaceful solution to the marriage debate
Though she is pro-choice, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg decried the “heavy-handed judicial activism” regarding abortion in Roe v. Wade. Judges in the current debate over marriage are again disrespecting the people by denying sufficient input from them, thus risking another never-ending culture war. Fortunately, there is a peaceful solution. In April, Mozilla CEO…