Looking back at Star Trek and Leonard Nimoy’s views
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 10th, 2009 4:33 am by HL
Looking back at Star Trek and Leonard Nimoy’s views
As a new Star Trek film enters our cultural landscape once again, I thought it might be interesting to remember what Star Trek meant to some of us, and, to Leonard Nimoy. In 1991, when Gene Roddenberry died and…
Sexual Inequality, Cultural Imperialism and Political Correctness
As Gloria points out, despite all the debates about feminism in this country, men and women alike have both basically incorporated the movement’s fundamental principals. “[W]e assume women should have equal educational and job opportunities, that women should be…
The Death of Jerusalem: Segregated Buses And Land Grabs
Yehuda Mirsky has a brilliant piece in the Jerusalem Post on what crazed Jewish religious fanatics have done to Jerusalem (the Jewish part, anyway). Mirsky is a brilliant scholar and writer, himself Orthodox, so he comes to his conclusion with…