Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, with the one week countdown until he plays in Super Bowl XLVII ticking away has...
The Hero’s Hero+
Injured Israeli Pilot Noam Gershony Wins GOLD at the 2012 Paralympic Games In 2006, 23 year old Israeli Pilot Noam...
Love: The Difference Between a House and a Home+
A picture of the home you grew up in. Before the “Real World” of my adult life were the “Wonder...
The Arabs and the Jews: Happily Never Ever?+
The date was Sunday, October 7, 1973 and the Yom Kippur War had begun the day before. By the war’s...
A picture of an emotional day+
A picture of an emotional day In third grade, I broke both the major bones in my leg and they...
Once a Fat Kid, Always a Fat Kid+
A picture of your biggest insecurity My weight/appearance For anyone who grew up as “the fat kid,” you can relate....
The Arabs and the Jews: Happily Never Ever?+
The date was Sunday, October 7, 1973 and the Yom Kippur War had begun the day before. By the war’s...
Columbia, Challenger and Apollo 1: Saluting our Fallen NASA Heroes+
At a public memorial service at Kennedy Space Center this evening, NASA will honor the seven Columbia astronauts; Colonel Rick...
A Special Shabbat Shalom to Israel’s New Gray Berets+
Shabbat Shalom. Having completed a 5 day, treacherous trek to earn the gray berets of Israeli Combat Engineering Corps (ICEC),...
Super Bowl XLVII: Winners: LGBT – Loses: Bullies & Bigots+
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, with the one week countdown until he plays in Super Bowl XLVII ticking away has...
A Lone Peaceful Israeli Breeze in the Arab Spring+
Peace is seldom achieved with clenched fist: a young Israeli solider stows his weapon, picks up the fallen cane of...
Guns and Tongues: When the Tales Wag the Dogs+
When you travel to an exotic land and only know a few of phrases in their language, that narrow common...
Things My Father Taught Me: Prologue+
“Just remember the good things I taught you,” was something my brother, Hal, and I regularly heard from our father,...
A picture of an emotional day+
A picture of an emotional day In third grade, I broke both the major bones in my leg and they...
Bravo Barak+
“Spirit Day was started in 2010 to bring to the national stage the problem of suicide amongst LGBT teens and...
I was a Bullied Kid+
My name is Harlan Yaffe, I was a bullied kid. I scribe this today as a freshly fifty, semi-sane, very...