Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

When I was a kid, my parents always stressed the importance of telling the truth, and not making excuses if I did something wrong. I'd b...

When I was planning out my upcoming blog post early in the week, I had no intention of blogging about computers or smartphones or anything r...

As I write this, Jews all over the world are approaching the end of the Ten Days of Repentance, the period of time between Rosh Hashanah (Je...

I've been thinking a lot about religion these past few days-- and not just because the Jewish New Year will be here soon. What made me t...

There's a commercial for a nutritional drink called Boost in which a woman says, "Age is just a number. And mine's unlisted....

I've never actually been to Vinton, Iowa, but I feel as if I know something about the place-- in fact, back in the late 1990s, I wrote a...

I was still a teenager when the original "Star Trek" made its debut in 1966. It was on NBC, and although I watched some of the epi...