Breaking news: two people were fatally shot today after a gunman opened fire in a dorm at Central Michigan University. The 19-year-old gunman is still at-large. So it’s no surprise that as students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School…
It’s Purim, one of my favorite Jewish holidays, a raucous celebration with masks, noise-makers, feasts, and drinking… while reading a fairly subversive and feminist tale, the story of Esther. Every year I find new ways to connect this biblical tale…
The February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida claimed 17 lives and traumatized countless more who are dealing daily with what they witnessed that day. Two weeks after the shooting, MSDHS students returned to school…
Emma Gonzalez, the Parkland teenager pictured above at the CNN town hall on Wednesday night, and her fellow student activists are courageously working to reshape American gun policy and end school shootings. For more on that, read yesterday‘s post. Watch Emma’s powerful…
The nation is reeling from the most recent school shooting – a slaughter of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Teenagers have lost their childhoods in a single day, lost friends in a…