Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I've mentioned in a previous blog post that I enjoy playing word games; it's a way to keep my mind sharp. I've especially become...

I was walking to class the other day and stopped to say hi to one of my students. She looked like she'd been shopping, so I asked her wh...

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...