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Rabbi Carl Astor |
Jul 3, 2025 12:29 pm
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Farmington Canal graffiti, as seen on Thursday.
(Opinion) I have often been biking or walking on the Farmington Canal Trail, a trail that I have enjoyed since my arrival in New Haven seven years ago. It is so pleasant to be on a beautiful trail, with no car traffic or other motorized vehicles. Pretty much everyone on the trail is friendly and in good spirits. It is a place to enjoy nature, meet and greet strangers and, hopefully, leave our divisive politics at home.
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Pastor Jason Goubourn |
Jul 3, 2025 11:01 am
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Faith Matters” is a column that features pieces written by local religious figures.
Being in the middle is not always a popular place to be in our society. We tend to avoid being in the middle of things because life has a way of showing us there’s typically madness in the middle.
For example, nobody gets excited for the middle seat on the plane because you’re stuck between two people with no arm room and very limited personal space. Wednesdays are typically seen as the least popular day of the week because you have another half of your tough week to go. If you’re on vacation, however, it’s the other way around: Wednesday means you’re halfway done with vacation! Either way, Wednesday has the downside of being in the middle. Likewise, the most devastating winds of a hurricane are at the eye wall in the center of the storm.
(Opinion) Big bad ski-masked would-be brave federal government tough guys rolled into the Hill to pick on some of the city’s most vulnerable people — only to be upstaged as cruel cowards by a 13-year-old girl who watched them take her mother away.
(Opinion) When it comes to promoting government corruption, Donald Trump, Democratic and Republican state lawmakers, and a disgraced former governor found common ground this week.
NORMANDY, FRANCE — I watch on this sunny day in late May as a barefoot young girl twirls and twirls in the sand as if she is the prima ballerina, and not performing on a spot where 81 years ago death became a cheap commodity.
(Opinion) — New Haven reconsidered, reset, and made some history this week, from its handling of memorials to its communal approach to helping people struggling with mental illness.
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Bonita Grubbs |
May 9, 2025 9:29 am
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Rev. Bonita Grubbs.
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Sunday is Mother’s Day.
According to Wikipedia, in 1868, Anna Jarvis, who had previously organized Mother’s Day Work Clubs to improve sanitation and health for both Union and Confederate encampments undergoing a typhoid outbreak, organized a committee to establish a “Mother’s Friendship Day”, the purpose of which was “to reunite families that had been divided during the Civil War.”
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Rabbi Herbert Brockman |
Apr 18, 2025 10:23 am
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Rabbi Herb Brockman.
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(Opinion) It was on a cold morning in Sept 2015 that Alan Kurdi’s body washed ashore on a beach in Turkey. Along with his parents and older brother, they were fleeing the violence in their native Syria. Their rubber raft was bound for a “safe harbor” on a Greek island. The boat capsized. Alan and his brother and mother drowned.
The image of a 2‑year-old lying in the sand was captured by a Turkish photographer and was sent around the world. People opened their hearts when they saw the suffering in that image. All these years it never left me.
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Rev. Allie Perry |
Apr 17, 2025 10:05 am
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Rev. Allie Perry.
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(Opinion) While the dates for Passover and Easter vary from year to year, this year they converge.
The eight days of Passover in the Jewish calendar are almost a complete overlay of the seven days of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter, in the Christian calendar. Dates are not the only commonality, however.
More significantly, both these religious observances memorialize sacred stories of freedom struggles and resistance to oppressive empires.
That's me, honoring the aphorism: "If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly."
Last Thursday night, I took a seat in a makeshift theater — the community room of the Unitarian Society of New Haven — awaiting the introduction of Act 6 of an annual talent show, “Mud Follies.”
Not that I wasn’t paying attention to Acts 1 through 5. Indeed, I was impressed by the performances.
(Opinion) Brick buildings don’t generally catch fire. But burning community passion can sometimes douse free-thought-burning and Dumpster-fire federal cutbacks.
In late February, I took a seat at the extended table of a Hamden scholar who hosted a group of locals: donors to the annual LEAP fundraiser. And, along with about 20 others present, I got an earful — as well as several mouthfuls of savory poached salmon.
The featured guest that night was Jason Stanley, a philosophy professor at Yale and author of prominent books that illustrate the way fascism and authoritarianism have proliferated in recent times.
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Jamilah Rasheed |
Mar 26, 2025 10:01 am
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Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
“Faith Matters” is a column that features pieces written by local religious figures.
(Opinion) The Qur’an, which was revealed during Ramadan in the sixth century to Prophet Muhammad, is read daily to remind Muslims not only of their commitment to God and His commands but also their commitment to the lives of all living beings.
Since he is mentioned more than any other prophet throughout the Qur’an, Prophet Moses’ life is described in detail throughout the holy text.
