Jade Dass was taking medication to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say this leads to the best outcomes for both mothers and babies. But after Dass delivered a healthy daughter, the hospital reported her to the Arizona Department of Child Safety, […]

As someone who believes deeply in the power of equal opportunity, inclusive development, and community reinvestment, I am proud to endorse Freedom Plaza — a visionary proposal as part of New York’s downstate casino bid just south of the United Nations along the East River that promises to address New York City’s most pressing challenges by thoughtfully integrating housing, jobs, culture, and open space in East Midtown.

This week, I joined 10 rabbinic colleagues in an act of civil disobedience outside the Israeli Consulate in New York City. Eight of us, including me, were arrested and briefly detained after disrupting traffic on Second Ave. This was not my first time being arrested at a protest, but it was my first time doing so to protest the actions of the Israeli government.

Dear Eric: When my wife and I updated our wills, she designated a diamond tennis bracelet and diamond stud earrings to her niece (she had no biological children of her own). Later that month my wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer to which she would succumb 19 months later. My daughter (my wife’s stepdaughter) is […]

The Yankees newest additions contributed in large fashion to their worst loss of the season.

Three cities can claim Wyndham Lewis in this, his centenary year: Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the basis of his birth off Amherst in 1882; London, England, where he spent the bulk of his life; and Toronto. where he spent miserable years during the Second World War. Toronto is keeping very quiet; Lewis’s Self Condemned of […]

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The big headline from the Fitzwilliam Museum (my local) this week was the discovery of a handprint, 4000 years old, on the bottom of an ancient Egyptian pottery “soul house”, a little model house put into tombs. Presumably the potter picked the thing up while the clay was still wet and left his mark. (It […]

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Liquefied natural gas vessels are fueled by their cargo—they’re built specifically to make use of the gas boiling off from their tanks. Now Cheniere Energy, the largest US exporter of LNG, is seeking “alternative fuel” tax credits for […]