Amy Neustein

‘Blurred Vision’: A suspense-filled examination of the working of cults

The sto­ry ignites when vet­er­an Atlantic City Detec­tive Alex Wald­man answers an ear­ly-morn­ing homi­cide call and dis­cov­ers a Black teenag­er with a knife pro­trud­ing from his ribs. The grue­some scene instant­ly res­ur­rects psy­cho­log­i­cal ghosts and unre­solved PTSD Alex has spent twelve years try­ing to bury. [Amy Neustein]

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Amy Neustein, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

A Special Mother’s Day of hope: A message gleaned from a very serious wind accident

Suddenly an unexpected gale force wind came along and lifted me from the sidewalk and hurled me 15 feet into the street, right into the path of oncoming traffic. I tried to stand up but my right leg collapsed, feeling like an empty airbag. My hip joint shattered from the fall and I was now stuck on the ground. [Amy Neustein]

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Amy Neustein, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Indonesia’s Bar of Israeli Gymnasts Recalls 1936 Tragedy of Gretel Bergmann

This crushing blow meted out to the young Israeli gymnasts who trained round the clock, often missing family events, parties, and even a good night’s sleep, resonates with me for a very personal reason. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D.]

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Amy Neustein, Antisemitism, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Sports & Competitions, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Did Epstein Think He Was Saving the Jewish Community from a Shanda?

A protracted trial, or a stringent plea agreement for that matter, would have landed him in prison for years. The swarm of press stories would have inevitably damaged the name of the Jewish community, using Epstein as the emblem of a Jewish sex trafficker. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D.]

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Amy Neustein, Jewish History, Lifestyles, Opinion, Shanda File, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Israel Provided Perfect Environment for Beta Testing of Bunker-Busting Bomb

Prime Minister Netanyahu understood the seismic shift in world order achieved by this masterful joint effort with the United States. In giving his congratulatory speech to Trump after the completion of the successful operation, Bibi effused his joy, exhilaration, and relief that Iran’s nuclear facilities were finally destroyed, thereby averting a daunting arms race in the Middle East. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D.]

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Amy Neustein, Israel, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Resolving Gaza’s ‘Custody Battle’–the Capstone of Trump’s Mideast Peace Negotiations?

Within hours of the jubilant press conference to announce the US “takeover” of Gaza and the potential of turning this war ravaged region into the crown jewel of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia publicly affirmed their support for a Palestinian state as sine qua non to any normalization of relations with Israel. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D]

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Amy Neustein, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Schumer’s Challenge to Courts Should Inspire Mothers in Child Custody Cases

Specifically, children are dying because the courts are proving, in case after case, that they are giving custody of young children to men who are active drug-users, and alcoholics, while also being violent and sexually and physically abusive to their young children. [Amy Neustein and Michelle Etlin]

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Amy Neustein, California, Opinion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

OpEd: Kamala Harris May Protect Mothers from Discriminatory Family Court Decisions

Mothers across the country, from non-college educated to professional women, are suffering a brutal fate at the hands of the American family courts as they beg judges to protect their young children from unstable, and often substance-abusing, fathers. Grandparents, likewise, suffer as they watch with agony as their grandchildren are subject to injury and, sometimes, death at the hands of dangerous fathers. Kamala Harris can change that, and she can begin today.
[Amy Neusein and Michelle Etlin]

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Amy Neustein, California, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

YIVO Exhibit, ‘Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families’ Resonates

On Monday in lower Manhattan the most fascinating exhibit opened at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In concert with the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, YIVO presented “Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families,” providing a brutally honest historical look at Jewish immigrant men who abandoned their families on Manhattan’s lower Eastside in the early part of the 20th Century. [Amy Neustein, PhD]

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Amy Neustein, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shanda File, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Rescue of 2 Hostages from Gaza was an Entebbe-Type Moment

I was reminded of Israel’s military tour de force in Entebbe when I read of the recent rescue of hostages Fernando Marman, 60, and Luis Har, 70, from a Rafah apartment. The reuniting of the hostages with their families and community members brought elation and joy to them. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D]

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Amy Neustein, International, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

OpEd: Israel Must Beware of Hard-Right’s Messianism

Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, both far-right ideologues in Netanyahu’s cabinet, have never tried to hide their wish to exile the Palestinians from Gaza. In their thinking, such an expulsion of the Palestinian population would allow Israel to return to its biblical borders. Then they would rebuild Gaza solely with Jewish inhabitants. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D]

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Amy Neustein, Israel, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors

How I Plan to Triumph over Antisemitism: My New Year’s Resolution

I am asking the lobbyists for their help in securing a Congressional investigation into the federal grant programs intended for insuring equity and inclusion of university students, but have, instead, been usurped by propagandists, who have used these funds to bring in guest lecturers and core faculty members who espouse a full-fledged frontal assault on Israel as “colonists” and “apartheidists.” [Amy Neustein, PhD]

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Amy Neustein, Antisemitism, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA