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Judy Roitman
Recent stories
- Everyday Life: My life on Facebook
- January 14, 2013
- Facebook knows the 20 biggest moments of my life in 2012. Yes, it does.
- Everyday Life: Good for nothing
- December 10, 2012
- “War,” sang Edwin Starr back in 1969, “What is it good for? Absolutely nothing …”
- Everyday Life: Predicting the future
- November 12, 2012
- I’m writing this nine days before the presidential election. This piece is due before the election but will appear six days afterwards. When you read this, you’ll know who won. When I write this, I don’t.
- Everyday LIfe: When you get what’s yours, just what exactly do you have?
- October 8, 2012
- Somehow — maybe the election season has something to do with it — this question keeps going through my head: When you get what’s yours, just what exactly do you have?
- Everyday Life: Growing up with Yom Kippur
- September 10, 2012
- Yom Kippur is the Jewish day of atonement, a day marked by fasting and long hours in the synagogue, the most solemn day of the liturgical calendar. Starting when I was about 8, it became my favorite Jewish holiday.
- Everyday Life: The world we make
- August 13, 2012
- A Facebook friend of mine saw some UFOs recently. In fact, he photographed a bunch of them and posted them on his Facebook page.
- Everyday Life: Kumaré!
- July 9, 2012
- The unexpectedly sweet documentary “Kumaré” starts out with a Borat-type premise: a young American man of Indian ancestry pretends to be a guru.
- Everyday Life: You must wake up from this dream
- June 11, 2012
- Let’s talk about George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch guy in Florida who gunned down Trayvon Martin, the kid who was armed with a bag of Skittles, a can of iced tea, and a cellphone.
- Everyday Life: Goodbye, Anne
- May 14, 2012
- On April 1, I was sitting in a meeting of Zen teachers in Rhode Island (yes, Zen teachers have meetings) with several folks patched in by speakerphone (yes, it felt antediluvian, but Skype is unreliable).
- Everyday Life: A permeable line
- April 9, 2012
- The past few weeks have been even more difficult to comprehend than usual. First, an American soldier allegedly murdered 16 Afghans — 11 in one family, 9 of them children — shooting, stabbing and burning them.
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- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013 · 16 comments
- Police department's case for a new facility not likely to show on next year's budget, officials say May 25, 2013 · 6 comments
- Former area Boy Scouts react to decision allowing gay scouts May 24, 2013 · 27 comments
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013 · 11 comments
- Opinion: Discrimination more than just poor service May 25, 2013 · 9 comments
- Opinion: Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate? May 15, 2013 · 119 comments
- Proposed cuts to corrections system could endanger Kansans, secretary says May 24, 2013 · 16 comments
- Blog: Two new senior housing projects getting under way in Lawrence May 24, 2013 · 6 comments
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 60 comments
- 59 minors, several local businesses, cited for alcohol violations in state regulator's patrols in May May 23, 2013 · 33 comments
- Bill Self: Security tricky subject May 25, 2013
- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013
- Graduation and 'stepping up' an all-school event at Bishop Seabury May 24, 2013
- Wool ballcaps go out with a whimper as baseball flips its lid April 15, 2007
- House rejects exception from abortion restrictions for rape, incest, abuse victims March 19, 2013
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- Kansas baseball moves to 2-0 in Big 12 tournament May 25, 2013
- Wichita might fine residents over use of water May 24, 2013
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
