Cheers: The sale of the Beth Israel synagogue in Washington to the national veterans organization AMVETS is certainly an occasion for mixed emotions. On the one hand, there is undeniable melancholy that Beth IsraelĢƵ congregation has dwindled the way it has. David Posner, a longtime member, ...
One of the unquestionable triumphs in public health over the last several decades has been the decline of cigarette smoking among all age groups.
In the 1960s, 40% of adults smoked, a number that has now been whittled down to just 11%. And as recently as 1997, almost 1 in 4 American high ...
Cheers & Jeers
Jeers: The school shooting at a high school in Barrow County, Ga., last week was not the worst of the school shootings that has happened with disturbing regularity since the killings at Columbine High School in Colorado 25 years ago. Sadly, in a society awash with guns, ...