Facebook and, I imagine, Twitter exploded today with the news of Robin Williams’ death. I found myself touched more than with other celebrity deaths. Rumours, still rumours, say that it was at his own hand. That depression was a factor. It’s public knowledge that he had problems with drugs. I did not know the man … A Lesson from Robin

The other night, while so much of the world was busy counting medals a man was not convicted of murder for killing a 17-yr old boy who was listening to loud music in his car with his friends in front of a convenience store in Florida. That boy could have been any one of my … Be sad. Be angry.

Yesterday, a student asked me this question: “Are Jews and white people the same thing?” I started with a no, because there are black Jews, there are brown Jews. But there are a lot of white Jews. “So, is it just their religion that makes them different from white people?” I thought…and said, maybe. A … The questions students ask…