Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Most of you never met my maternal grandfather. His Yiddish name was Shmu'el Feivel (which became Samuel Philip) and according to his imm...

When I was in high school, we studied some of Shakespeare's plays. The one that had the greatest impact on me (and not in a good way) wa...

I generally try to be courteous when I blog, but I have to admit I'm really fed up with the ongoing verbal attacks on the media. I'v...

I just read an article in the Boston Globe, and it really resonated with me. No, it wasn't about politics or rock & roll or the medi...

Over the past couple of days, social media has been a microcosm of everything that's wrong with our current society.  First, there was t...

When I was growing up, I wasn't very popular.  As I recall, I was the only girl in the senior class at my high school who was not asked ...

When I heard the news that the Chaplain of the House of Representatives, Father Patrick Conroy, had been asked to resign by the Republican S...