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Judy Roitman
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- 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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- Police to aggressively enforce seat-belt laws in 2013 Click It or Ticket campaign May 17, 2013
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