Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Back in the 1990s, I was teaching a media analysis course at Emerson College, and one night, after class, a student from Saudi Arabia had a ...

I have to admit I'm someone who doesn't like surprises.  I'd much rather know what's going on, and I usually do. But last We...

When I was growing up in the 1950s and early 60s, dress codes were a part of everyone's life. It was a much more formal culture: even in...

I don't usually blog about religion, but this seems like an appropriate time: as I write this, Jews all over the world are about to cele...

This past week has been more eventful than usual: for one thing, it was Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson's 70th birthday. For another, it was...

Wherever you are on the political spectrum, I hope you share my view that just because you disagree with someone, that doesn't give you ...

I never met my maternal grandmother, even though I am named after her; in the Jewish religion, it's a custom to name one's children ...