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6 Hostages Including Hersh Goldberg-Polin Found Dead
Hersh Goldberg-Polin is shown as his parents Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg speak at the 2024 DNC. You could hear a pin drop when an anguished Rachel Goldberg-Polin, bowing her head and touching her...
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Are Presidential Debates Game Changers?
Whether tomorrow night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is the game changer they are hoping for or not, this is potentially one of the most consequential debates since...
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Picturing our Pets
Who else’s phone is filled with photos of their pets? Anytime I want to show someone a picture on my phone its “Ok, let me scroll past these 35 pictures of my dog with his head cocked just so.” One...
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If I Lose Blame the Jews
Trump is instructing others that Jews would be to blame if he loses, amounting to crying fire in a climate of rampant antisemitism. Blame the Jews, Trump said. Jews have heard this 6 million times As a...
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How We Talk About Mental Health Matters.
Mental hospitals have a long and sordid history in popular culture. In 1948, “The Snake Pit” was a groundbreaking film that looked into the horrors of a mental institution. For Donald Trump, calling...
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Israeli Hostages One Year Later- Never Forget
Never forget. Those two words, weighted with history and heritage were seared into me as a child. I can still hear the solemn voice of my childhood Rabbi whose thunderous High Holiday sermons...
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Artists in the Galleries – The Heckscher Museum of Art
I am delighted to be discussing my collage “Ambassador of Peace-We Are Friends” on Sunday, October 20, 2024 , at The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington N.Y as part of their Artists in the...
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Entering the World of MAD Magazine
Walking through the doors of The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts last Sunday into the halls of the MAD Magazine Exhibit was like finally standing in front of the Wailing Wall as...
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The Enemy Within
Illustration- Steve Brodner Donald Trump is not wrong. There is an enemy within our country. An enemy that is un-American. Vermin. Trash. Not one of us. An enemy that must be removed. By force if...
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Garbage Can to the World?
My Immigrant Family was not garbage. L-R My great grandfather, Henry Josephowitz from Hungary, My great Grandparents Dr Abraham Posner and Rebeca Posner from Russia and London: My great grandmother...
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The Ghosts of Madison Square Garden Are Resurrected
In time for Halloween, the ghosts of the Goebbels’ goblins that once rallied in Madison Square Garden will be resurrected again. Madison Square Garden will once again be host to a Hitler-admiring...
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The Hateful Ghosts of Madison Square Garden Are Resurrected
In time for Halloween, the ghosts of the Goebbels’ goblins that once rallied in Madison Square Garden will be resurrected again. Madison Square Garden will once again be host to a Hitler-admiring...
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Kamala Takes Back The Ellipse
From January 6, 2021, to October 29, 2024, our views shifted from that of a sitting President acting decidedly un-presidential to a candidate appearing oh-so-presidential and ready to lead. On the...
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Here I Come to Save the Day…Whether Women Like it or Not
Sometimes it seems Donald Trump got his worldview from Saturday morning cartoon shows. Despite what he may think, Donald is no Dudley Do-Right racing to women’s aid. And American women are no damsels...
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Election Day 2024-A Survival Guide
Let the day drinking begin! This is no day for kale. There may be those who can be comforted by Chamomile tea but if ever there was a time for stress eating sugar and white flour it is Election Day...
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I Cry for America
On the morning after the Presidential election in 2016, the first person who called me was my father, whose words were “ I’m sitting shiva.” Shocked and in despair we mourned together. He is no longer...
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A Veterans Day Tradition Operation Army Jacket
My father 21 year old Army Air Corp Sergeant Marvin Edelstein 1942 What my WWII veteran father had done in the war and what the war had done to him was never clear to me. Like most men of Dad’s...
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We Weep With Lady Liberty-Tears For Fears
Collage by Sally Edelstein America weeps with Lady Liberty…as our tears turn to fears. “Give me your tired, your poor…” “…from shithole countries… a massive invasion at our southern border has spread...
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No News Good News-Where Have You Gone Walter Cronkite?
Where have you gone Walter Cronkite, a lonely nation turns its eyes to you, woo woo woo… Right now no news is good news. I have been microdosing the news recently. The shock and tumult from the...
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Jimmy Carter an American Treasure
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter takes questions from the media during a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. August 20, 2015. REUTERS/John Amis/File Photo The long life...
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