Disturbing news out of Iran this week as the regime-backed newspaper daily Kayhan says Carla Bruni, first lady of France, deserves to die for her views.
Taking a stand for the rights of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two who was sentenced by an Iranian court to death …
Interesting piece in this week’s Los Angeles Times about Germany’s trade relationship with Iran.
According to this article, Germany’s industrialists and politicians “regularly advocate business with the Islamic Republic. Germany sold $4.5 billion worth of goods to Iran last year.”
Following World War II, the allies allowed many German businesses, including …
Below is a letter issued this week by Florida Congresswoman ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, who is taking on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). UNRWA, a U.N. agency with a mandate to care for Palestinians, has received $3.6 billion in U.S. tax dollars since its inception. This agency, which has been …
Having finally emerged from a winter that made my hometown of Pittsburgh resemble a scene from the film Doctor Zhivago, I’m not inclined to put Al Gore’s dire warnings about global warming at the top of my worry list. As Los Angeles writer Jennifer Ginsberg puts it, with Iran …
Hugely disappointing news from Iraq last week as Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, who won his seat in Iraq’s Parliament in December, 2005 and has been a fearless champion of human rights, press freedom, and democracy, lost his seat. He has told me he believes the elections to have been fixed against …
My brilliant and beautiful writing partner and friend Jennifer Ginsberg is scheduled to appear tomorrow (Wed. February 24) night on the TV show EXTRA as an addiction expert discussing Charlie Sheen.
In addition to being an author, Jennifer is a clinical social worker and expert in addiction who has worked as …
From Mom Logic
by HEATHER ROBINSON & JENNIFER GINSBERG
Who is a feminist?
We’ve been asking that question since reading “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin’s autobiography, and after reading columns by prominent feminists deriding the idea that the former Governor of Alaska is a feminist.
Many of these columnists …
During this week of uprising that left 12 pro-democracy protestors dead in Iran, the sister of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, a human rights attorney and activist, was detained by the Iranian government because of her sister’s human rights work, according to Ebadi.
In a statement, the Nobel Prize winning human rights …
Returning tonight from London, I wanted to get down a few thoughts. Overall, I noticed a few things about media coverage across the pond: the war in Afghanistan is being reported with heavy attention to British soldiers’ fatalities and injuries, much in the way American troops’ fatalities and ghastly injuries in Iraq were heavily reported …
Patrick Swayze: This Jewish Girl Will Miss You
From The Jewish Daily Forward
by HEATHER ROBINSON
You Are More Than a Ghost to Us
For Jewish women of a certain age, Patrick Swayze will always occupy a special corner of the heart. Tough and tender, he embodied for some of us — ok for me, at least …