Renee Garfinkel — Beyond Belief
Renee Garfinkel
Father’s Day: Dads matter too
It's never been easy to be a man. Once upon a time men had to stand at the mouth of the cave, protecting their women and children from roving predatory beasts. (Come to think of it, some of that job still remains!)
Enough is enough: terror slogans, terror policy
If you were to ask Jane Q. Public, she would probably say, "All we want is to be left alone. We want to live in peace. But when evil is dedicated against us, we have no choice. We must act."
Memorial Day: Support the Taylor Force Act
On Memorial Day, when we honor those who died to keep Americans safe, it seems most fitting to consider the complex issue of danger and safety in our present world.
Trump in Israel amid Jerusalem’s jubilee
Many Israel-watchers don't believe in coincidence. As they wait for President Trump to arrive, they ponder the significance of the fact that his visit is happening during the week of Jerusalem's jubilee celebrations. Fifty years ago this week Jerusalem was liberated from Jordan, which had captured it in a war of aggression 19 years earlier.
Press freedom under fire
Journalists from around the world gathered last week at the Jerusalem Press Club for a conference on Freedom of the Press in the Digital Age, with veteran journalist Carl Bernstein as the keynote speaker.
Republican health care victory lap is a disgrace
In my first year as a practicing psychologist, a patient asked, "can you help me get into a nursing home? I know I don't need to be there, but at home I have to choose between buying medicine and buying food. I can't afford both."
Ann Coulter, tyranny of college campus thugs
Ann Coulter is the most recent victim of the tyranny of thugs on college campuses.
Marwan Barghouti op-ed latest example for rebranding terrorism
Business is booming in the international terrorism industry.
Trump’s tweets: Distraction or strategy?
When a president shoots himself in the foot, the entire country suffers a self-inflicted wound.
Adrian Russell Ajao turns London terrorist Kahlid Masood
How did British-born Adrian Russell Ajao become Kahlid Masood, the terrorist who maimed and murdered innocent people in the heart of London last week?
Real people need health care
President Trump discovered that the health care issue is complicated.
Working women, prostitution, the law
Last week's International Women's Day started me thinking about the world of women's work, including the women's work we seldom talk about: prostitution.
US military wasting money
Financial mismanagement is rampant at the Pentagon. And the Trump administration wants to give them tens of billions dollars more.
Jewish cemetery desecration is not just vandalism
More than 150 tombstones in a St. Louis Jewish cemetery were vandalized last week. Nearly 100 more were found overturned on Sunday in a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia.
A NATO for the 21st century
The West needs NATO, but not your grandpa's NATO.
Elites and religion not what you think
"I walk in prayer," replied my colleague when I asked how she coped with the stress of journalism in the nation's capital these days.
Uncertainty, chaos and liberty
What does it mean for a country to have a presidential adviser say, as Steve Bannon is reported to have said last summer, that he aims to "blow everything up" and "destroy the existing social and political order?" It means uncertainty.
Pope Francis, Donald Trump criticize media
It's hard to imagine that Pope Francis and President Trump might have anything in common, but last week they did. The Vatican and the White House both spoke out critically about the media.
Trump, Founding Fathers, elitists
Like all previous presidents in my lifetime, President Trump ran against "Washington" and not incidentally, against the elites. This approach is Campaign Strategy 101 for all first-term candidates who had not been vice president first.
Media atwitter, but not to political corruption
With a press in thrall to every Twitter outrage du jour, and the media spotlight trained tightly on the upcoming inauguration and its opposition, there is little national attention left over for what the nation fears most. Corruption.
