(JTA) — Throughout his senior year in high school, Ryan Deitsch has stayed busy. A month ago, the 18-year-old filled his time outside of classes performing in an doing improvisational theater group he started at his school, producing TV content for the school’s newsroom and working as a busboy at a local restaurant. Now he…
Andrew Pollack, the father of a teen killed during the February shooting in Parkland, Florida, went on CNN to ask student activists of the #NeverAgain movement to “work with us.” Pollack addressed students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, whose own protests against current gun regulations have inspired walk-outs in schools across the country. He…
The Pollack family became public activists and media notables not by choice, but because of personal tragedy. Meadow Pollack, daughter of Andrew Pollack and Shara Kaplan, was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. She was one of the victims killed on February 15th. She was 18. “She was the baby…
A Swarovski-encrusted, bloated night of semi-redemption, the 90th Academy Awards paid unusual attention to women and immigrants. However, the show reserved the usual amounts of attention for the kind of slavish self-praise that reminds viewers that the unifying trait for all Oscar participants is that they enjoy magnificent wealth in a world where children starve…
I know loss. Fifty years ago my husband of three years died in the Six Day War. Seeing his scorched body and hearing him gasping for air minutes before his death was emotionally and physically so traumatic that I miscarried our unborn child. I was twenty-three, and I felt I had nothing to live for….
I never imagined I’d hear first lady Melania Trump channel Norman Lear. On the other hand, I never imagined I’d hear “first lady Melania Trump,” so clearly anything is possible. Even the resurgence of American democracy! Let me tell you how I can talk myself into that. Feeling that nothing is possible – Groundhog Days…
Former Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz told Fox News that the survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting “need a belief in God, in Jesus Christ.” Parkland is in a heavily Jewish part of Florida, and many of the victims and their classmates are Jewish. Media Matters highlighted the clip, which was part of a conversation…
The teenage gunman who stormed the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, killing 17 people, had swastikas etched into his AR-15 bullet magazines, CBS reported. Cruz is facing 17 counts of premeditated murder. CBS’ source — a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation into the shooting — also said that Cruz had 180 rounds…
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