Ira Rifkin

43 years ago, on a Thanksgiving weekend in Yonkers, N.Y, I married Ruth, the love of my life. A wise move as I gained a best-friend for life, a protector and caretaker, a homemaker extraordinaire … a partner in all. Thank you Ruth. I hope I’ve proved worthy.

There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of...

Is This a Bonhoeffer Moment?
Protestant activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an ordinary man forced to be extraordinary by his times, is a hero for giving his life to opposing the Nazi regime.
Is this our fate?

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The House Just Made it Easier to Target Climate Groups A bill allowing the executive branch to strip nonprofit status from organizations offering “material support” to terrorists could easily be used to target political enemies—including environmentalists...

This concerns me greatly. My wife’s organization, is on the working list. #MarylandPesticideEducationalNetwork.
newrepublic.com/article/1887...

She’s a self-censoring Republican.

I’ve joined! FB friends: if you’re now on bsky let me know so I can follow. Thanks