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Blog posts and video scripts on personal change, history, culture, politics, Jewish issues, music, and travel.

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Superheroes Are Jewish: Superman, Erasure, Appropriation, and the Shoah

Actually, the same voices claim EVERYTHING is about Palestine. No exaggeration: Collective Liberation. Blaming Jews *cough cough* Israel for global warming, sexism, US policing, lack of health care in the US, and more.In the very beginning of the new James Gunn-helmed movie, Superman is being condemned for intervening in international politics for the first time. At issue is a powerful European nation invading its powerless neighbor. Very quickly, we see the culprit, despite made-up names, is cl...

Blog Post: GoFundMe & Fundraising - Small Business Development

Hi, my name is Bobby Apperson, founder of Songsmith LA - a unique small business and music school in East Hollywood, Los Angeles. I formed Songsmith out of a need for a modern, different approach to music education and the creation and sharing of music, including songwriting. We have a large community of songwriters and producers, and as we like to say, Songsmith gives you the music lessons you always needed.

Writing Sample: My Poor Jerusalem: Tisha B’av, Portland, and Grief

This week as I marked my first Tisha B’av as part of the community, booms filled the sky. I’m in a semi-rural area in north San Diego county. The house shakes, the windows moan, and the dogs mobilize.

I’m holed up something like 3-point-3 miles east of Camp Pendleton where the Marines train and regularly blow things up late at night.

The whole house rattles, a little earthquake each time, and until it subsides you’re not quite sure if it actually is an earthquake. It beckons like a not-so-distant war.

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