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Bernard Starr, PhD, is a psychologist, journalist, and Professor Emeritus CUNY, Brooklyn College. His latest book "The Crucifixion of Truth," is a drama about historical antisemitism set in 16th-century Italy and Spain. Starr also authored "Jesus, Jews, and Antisemitism in Art" and "Jesus Uncensored." At Brooklyn College, he taught developmental psychology to prospective teachers and research methods and statistics in a graduate gerontology program that he directed. He is also the lead author of a lifespan textbook, "Human Development and Behavior: Psychology in Nursing." Starr is the founder, and for twenty-five years, the managing editor of the cutting-edge Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics published by Springer; also editor of the Springer Publishing Co. series Adulthood and Aging and Lifestyle and Issues in Aging. For several years he wrote for the Scripps Howard News Service on healthcare, the boomers, and issues of an aging society. And for seven years he was writer, producer, and host of an award-winning radio commentary, The Longevity Report, on WEVD-AM Radio in NYC. His book, The Starr-Weiner Report On Sex and Sexuality in the Mature years (co-authored with Dr. Marcella Bakur Weiner) provided the first comprehensive data on sexual activity after age 60. He is a past president of the Brooklyn Psychological Association and a past president of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy. He is also the main United Nations representative for the Institute of Global Education (IGE), an NGO with ECOSOC status. In recent years he has written extensively on environmental issues and has produced and hosted television documentaries on meaningful, active, and productive living in the third age of life (Active Aging Stories). Currently, Starr's articles are published at OpEdNews. He has also published on the Huffington Post contributor platform, Salon, Baron's Financial Magazine, the Algemeiner, and the New York Daily News. His earlier book, "Escape Your Own Prison: Why We Need Spirituality and Psychology to be Truly Free," published by Rowman and Littlefield, explores spirituality as a psychology of consciousness. OpEd News Member for 732 week(s) and 5 day(s) 196 Articles, 1 Quick Links, 371 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls
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Friday, October 18, 2024To Bar Mitzvah Or Not To Bar Mitzvah? If Jewish, Do You Have a Choice? The Answer Will Surprise You Does a Bar Mitzvah require a formal synagogue service? Like most others, I never questioned it and thought it did. What a stunning but welcome surprise to discover I was wrong. 
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024Leonard Hayflick: "I Never Said There is a Hayflick Limit for The Human Lifespan." Eminent biologist Leonard Hayflick died on August 1, 2024. He was best known for his pioneering research on telomers that determined a limit on human lifespan of approximately 120 years called The Hayflick Limit. Yet, in a recorded interview he told me that he never proposed such a limit and had never uttered the phrase The Hayflick Limit. 
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024The winning Democratic ticket: Kamala Harris for President and Republican John Kasich for Vice President. "These are the times that try men's souls," wrote Thomas Paine in "The American Crisis" at the beginning of the American Revolution in 1776.Trying times demand bold action. America is in crisis again with Democracy under assault. A first-time bi-partisan ticket may be the bold strategy that could defeat Donald Trump. 
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Friday, July 19, 2024Critical Questions Persist About the Health of Both Presidential Candidates: Who Shall Thrive and Who Shall Wither? Both presidential candidates have shown evidence of cognitive decline. The American public deserves the truth about the health status of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Independent comprehensive medical examinations of both candidates are warranted. This critical presidential election should not be left to chance and possible chaos. 
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Tuesday, July 2, 2024The Devastating Message of the Supreme Court's Insurrection: Welcome Back to America King George The Supreme Court ruling giving the president substantial immunity from criminal prosecution is an insurrection that restores what Americans fought against in the American revolution: Rule by a monarch. Worse, the ruling encourages extremist Republicans to follow their monarch's wish to attack and unravel democracy 
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Thursday, May 23, 2024Personal Remembrances of the Holocaust Give Wrenching Meaning to the Jewish Mantra 'Never Again' The phrase "Never Again" has been repeated so often in response to antisemitic acts that the depth of its meaning in response to the Nazi Holocaust is often diminished. Hearing the horrific personal accounts of survivors and children of survivors of the gruesome Nazi Holocaust restores the wrenching meaning of "Never Again." 
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024Art Critics and Historians Have Tragically Missed the Meaning of Jesus, Jews, and the Cross in Renaissance Art Although the cross is a devotional Christian object today, in the time of Jesus it was a hated and feared symbol. It stood for persecution, torture, and death. Why then do we see countless Renaissance paintings of Jesus his family and followers affectionately displaying a cross. Moreover, why have art world professionals ignored this fabrication for centuries--and still today? 
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Thursday, April 4, 2024The World's Final Response to Climate Change: Hospice Care for a Dying Planet After decades of fighting climate change, the world is in worse shape than ever teetering on "climate hell" While this dire crisis should mandate all hands on deck worldwide with a laser focus on stopping climate change, we are witnessing feeble responses of nations backtracking on commitments, making concessions to climate change deniers and corporations that put profits first.The restrained world response is suicidal. 
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Friday, March 22, 2024An Urgent Call for a National Teach-In on Democracy vs. Fascism The prospect of a Donald Trump presidency poses a threat to our democracy. Adding to that danger, surveys show that many Americans are craving for an authoritarian leader. Sadly, they don't understand that fascism will worsen their lives. That's why we urgently need a national teach-in on the principles of democracy vs. fascism 
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Friday, August 11, 2023Can Shark Tank Rescue Climate Projects and Save the Planet? Shark Tank has a track record of funding nascent businesses that are sound and scalable to meet projected growth and goals. In contrast, the world has invested billions in climate projects that have failed to meet their promises. The planet is in worse shape than ever. Let's present climate projects to the Sharks to expose the flaws and what needs to be done for success in stopping the doomsday clock. 
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Monday, July 24, 2023The Defeat of Climate Change Demands an Emergency Human Bypass Operation UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that we are on an accelerated path toward "climate hell." Humans he said created the climate change problem and humans must solve it. But humans have repeatedly proved they will not make the extreme sacrifices necessary to defeat climate change. That's why a human bypass is necessary with the task passed to science. 
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Monday, March 27, 2023Invention of Christian Jesus by Renaissance Art, Hollywood Films, and Art Historians and Critics Proved Lethal for Jews "Is it possible that revered Renaissance artworks and celebrated blockbuster Hollywood films played a major part in promoting antisemitism? And, if so, why did art professionals--historians, critics, and curators--support that prejudice which was responsible for violence against Jews? You will be shocked to learn how a powerful foundation of historical antisemitism embedded in Renaissance artworks has escaped exposure. 
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Monday, January 16, 2023The Dangerous Cognitive Disorder That Is Sweeping America--And Threatening Democracy The thinking and behavior of deniers and conspiracy theorists show a remarkable similarity to characteristics of preoperational cognition of young children as described in the stage theory of famed Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. This discovery explains the puzzling tenacious illogical and dismissive rejection of science and facts by deniers and conspiracy theorists. 
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022Climate Apocalypse Now: How a Colossal Climate Disaster Could Save Us Scientists tell us that the climate change doomsday clock is ticking with time for effective action running out. Despite numerous climate change disasters the world's response continues to be compromised by political, economic, and social constraints. What level of disaster will it take for the world to finally wake up for an all-hands-on-deck battle to defeat climate change and halt the dangerous warming of the planet? 
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022Three Technologies That Can Stop Climate Change. Why Isn't the World Making a Massive Investment in Developing Them? Despite decades of worldwide efforts and hundreds of billions of dollars invested in addressing the climate crisis, the world is closer to climate doomsday. Yet three nascent technologies if fully developed could stop climate change. A massive investment in science is the best and perhaps the only path to defeating climate change. 
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022The Supreme Court's Version of "Bonfire of the Vanities" The Supreme court no longer functions in the fulfillment of the vision of the Founders of our Republic. The justices were given life appointments with the expectation that they would act independently with no obligation to vested interests. For extremist justices invoking their religious ideologies in defiance of the constitution and the principle of we the people, the Supreme court must be radically reformed. 
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022A Call for a Month of Teach-Ins and Write-Ins on Democracy vs.Fascism. We are at a critical moment in U.S. history with democracy at risk. Yet evidence shows that the American public is largely ill-informed about the workings of government. That may explain why so many crave authoritarianism without knowing the dangers posed by that form of government. This proposal for educating the public on democracy vs. fascism may be an important step toward preserving the American experiment. 
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022"Xueta Island": The Untold Story of Genocide and the Resurrection of Judaism The film Xueta (pronounced cheweta) Island tells the story of the brutal persecution and murder of Jews over many centuries on the Spanish Island Of Majorca by the Spanish Inquisition. Ultimately the entire Jewish population of the Island was forced to convert. Judaism was then thought to have disappeared. But in recent years descendants of murdered Jews are returning to Judaism. 
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Friday, April 8, 2022Fascism Isn't Coming to America, It's Here Too many Americans are fans of authoritarianism encouraged by leaders who are undermining our democracy-and enticing them with promises that will not improve their lives. Unfortunately, these authoritarian-leaning Americans do not fully understand authoritarianism. An honest look at the daily lives of people living under authoritarian rule might change their minds. Because that isn't happening our democracy is in grave danger 
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Monday, March 21, 2022Repeating the Same Failed Responses to Climate Change Illustrates Albert Einstein's Definition of Insanity Governments and the public have repeatedly shown that they will not practice the sacrifices for extreme conservation that could stop the catastrophes of climate change. Yet each time a new appeal is issued there is the expectation of a different outcome. That is insanity. Science holds the best possibility to defeat climate change. But only if given the necessary massive resources.The stakes are high and time is running out Page 1 of 10 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
