Bernard Starr
ARTICLES BY: Bernard Starr
Jesus, Bill O’Reilly, and the Romans
The question of who killed Jesus or who was primarily responsible for the crucifixion has been debated by scholars, biblical experts and ordinary...
God Killed Jesus, Just Ask the Gospels
One of the most potent sources of the Jewish-Christian divide is the historic charge that "the Jews killed Jesus." That's why in writing my...
Wandering Jews of the Diaspora (INTERVIEW)
Jews comprise a tiny percentage of the world's population -- about 0-2 percent (13.75 million). And they are scattered in communities across the planet, even...
Jesus Was Jewish? That’s News to Many Christians
When I interviewed Christians and Jews for my book "Jesus Uncensored: Restoring the Authentic Jew," I heard over and over "everyone knows Jesus...
Jesus Married? Not Surprising For a Dedicated Jew
Whether authenticated or not there is nothing totally new in the "discovery" by a Harvard scholar of a fourth- century papyrus fragment indicating that Jesus was...
Heigh Ho Cell Phone–The Ego Rides Again
All spiritual traditions embrace the principle of turning within to realize the authentic or higher self which is prior to conditioning of the small ego-self....
If Only it Were 99 Percent — or Even 80 Percent — Versus the Rich
We've heard the mantra over and over. One percent of the richest Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth; and the top 20 percent...
An Encounter With Mike Wallace, the Vineyard’s Famous Renter
I had the pleasure of meeting Mike Wallace in 1998 at a dinner sponsored by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD),...
Corporations Plan for Post-Middle-Class America
American corporations have pretty much written off the middle class. Their actions declare that the middle class is moribund. And they should know since they...
The New Jews of Cameroon
Serge Etele is a thirty-one-year-old cocoa farmer and native African who lives in Sa'a, a small rural village in Cameroon, on the west coast of...
Two Cultures, Two Genocides, One Story
If you saw David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete standing together it would be hard to imagine that they had anything in common. David, eighty-three,...
A German Town Mourns Its Holocaust Past – The DP Camp Story Part 2
We last left Lillian and David Gewirtzman as they were about to meet the Mayor and townspeople of Ulm Germany for the opening...
The Miracle of Jewish Recovery After the Holocaust – The DP Camp Story Part 1
Since 1994, Steven Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation has collected more than 50,000 videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors. The Foundation, now run by the University...
Lights Out for Third World America?
Last week I waited more than 45 minutes for the M11 bus on Amsterdam Avenue in NYC. As a disgruntled man in front...
