Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I was sorry, but not surprised, to hear that Cleveland's Record Revolution (or Record Rev, as we used to call it) was closing. If you ar...

So, as it turns out, democracy was indeed on the ballot during the midterm elections, and so were women's rights. Prior to the elections...

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....