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Bernard Starr, PhD, is author of The Crucifixion of Truth, a drama set in 16th century Italy and Spain. Starr is a psychologist, journalist, and professor emeritus at CUNY, Brooklyn College. At Brooklyn College Starr taught developmental psychology to prospective teachers and research methods and statistics in a graduate 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) for Phoenix Rising Television Productions. 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.

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(51 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Understanding The Second Amendment: Why Yesterday's Rights About Guns And Militias Don't Make Sense Today The historical context of the second Amendment reveals why the post revolutionary war Congress voted for an armed militia. With no standing military after the Continental Army was disbanded following the revolution, the fledgling United States was dependent on State militias for national defense against potential foreign enemies at all its borders.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Harnessing 'Senior Power' to Boost Our Economy "The unprecedented gains in life expectancy of the longevity revolution will have profound effects on the future, not only of our older citizens but of younger ones as well. Indeed, their fates are intertwined." To create a society that will be viable for all age group--older adults will have to contribute to GDP--and there's a way to painlessly accomplish that.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 3, 2016
The Longevity Revolution: The Danger of Thinking It's Just About Social Security and Medicare For the first time in human history, older adults are becoming the largest demographic group. The gap will grow exponentially as the elderly population continues to expand and the younger working population shrinks. This poses challenges that can destabilize us economically, politically,and socially.Yet politicians refuse to address the big picture while pretending that the issues are limited to Social Security and Medicare.
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Fra Bartolomeo, From ImagesAttr
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 25, 2016
The Transformation of the Virgin Mary: How a Jewish Girl From Nazareth Became a Christian Icon The New Testament offers a handful of sparse citations about the life of Mary, mother of Jesus.Despite this paucity of information, an astonishing trove of books throughout history have been written about her.The one fact about Mary that stands out in the bible depictions is her dedication to Judaism. Yet Mary's Jewish identity is the one thing glaringly absent in Medieval and Renaissance art representations of her.
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(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 21, 2016
Why Christians Should Celebrate Passover While Passover is a celebration of the exodus of Jews from slavery in Egypt, the quest for freedom is a universal theme. Furthermore, if not for the exodus from Egypt it's doubtful that Christianity ever would have arisen. More specifically, though, Passover, is a major event in the life of Jesus.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Students Should Demand Their Colleges Produce Free Open Textbooks to End the Textbook Racket There is a simple and doable answer to how colleges can end the price gouging on textbooks ($150 and more).Colleges should require their junior and nontenured faculty to contribute chapters to department open textbooks that can be offered to students at no cost. Before new faculty engage in academic publications under the "publish or perish" dictum, demand that they first contribute to free open textbooks for their students.
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(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 15, 2016
How the "Dumbest" Country Became the Leader in Technology and Innovation National rankings on student performance place the U.S. below most industrialized nations based on mean (average) scores. Yet the U.S. is the leader in many intellectual domains including technology and innovation. How to explain this puzzling paradox? Compare the upper ten percent of American students with the same of other countries and the rankings and conversation will take a sharp turn.
Crucifixion & Last Judgment, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 25, 2016
Art Historians Miss the Mark: Follow the Money Trail for Surprising Revelations About Renaissance Art Patron's who commissioned Renaissance artworks are rarely mentioned by art historians, curators,and critics in discussions, reviews, and critiques of paintings and exhibits.Yet recent research reveals that patrons played a dominant role in overseeing the artworks they commissioned.They specified almost every detail. Patrons should emerge from the shadows and their contribution to the creative process acknowledged and reported
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders' Healthcare for all and free College: Idealism or Practical Realism? Opponents of single payer healthcare for all and free college tuition have dismissed these programs as idealistic and too costly. The fact that both programs exist throughout the world--even in developing nations-- gives lie to the critics
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Bible Expert's Surprising Findings About Jews and Judaism Revealed in the New Testament This interview with biblical scholar Professor Lawrence Schiffman reveals citations in the New Testament that are the earliest or sole mentions of those facts or events. These revelations confirm that the New Testament as an important source and document about Judaism in the time of Jesus and the apostles. It also reminds us of the Jewish Foundations of Christianity.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 27, 2015
For Bernie Sanders: A Practical Plan for Free College Education That Can Work Now! Bernie Sanders'proposal for free tuition at public colleges and universities is bold and necessary to insure an educated competitive workforce ready for the 21st century global marketplace. Given the legislative paralysis of Congress, Sanders'proposal is not likely to be enacted soon. But there is a way to provide free college education now that does not require government support or endorsement.It's based on a proven model.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 18, 2015
The Election Campaigns Need Fresh Acts. Will the New Ones Make Us Laugh and Spin? The candidates have run out of steam from over-exposure. They desperately need new material. But their positions are fixed. So where can they turn for freshness? The media may have pushed them to compete with humor and other entertainment forms rather than substance. Will the candidates now be heading to "Dancing With the Stars"?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 9, 2015
The Holocaust: A Homework Assignment for Ben Carson Ben Carson has repeatedly stated his incredulous belief that if Hitler's Nazi government had allowed Jews to own guns they could have stopped or greatly diminished the Holocaust. Not only does Carson's deeply flawed view show ignorance of the Nazi savagery and the pervasive anti-Semitism in German society and throughout Europe, it dishonors the Jewish men and women Partisans who fought courageously against the Nazis.
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 3, 2015
A Psychologist Replays the Trials of Jesus and Paul, and Uncovers Surprising Revelations It's widely believed that either Jesus, Paul,or both defected from Judaism and launched a new religion called Christianity. In revisiting the trials of Jesus and Paul with a role playing technique commonly used by psychologists, startling revelations emerge casting light on the origins of Christianity and at the same time raising an intriguing question.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Ben Carson Still Insists Jews Could Have Gunned Their Way out of the Holocaust Guns in the hands of ordinary Jewish citizens in Germany would have stopped or "lessened the Holocaust says Ben Carson. His statement may please gun lovers but it reveals deeply flawed logic, ignorance of historical facts and a lack of understanding of despotic governments. Several armies could not stop the German war machine so how could armed Jewish civilians have taken down the Third Reich? Frightening flawed thinking!
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 16, 2015
Will the World Awaken? Prospects For the Sustainable Development Agenda Adopted by the United Nations News reports tell us that the world is a mess and in crisis. But what's missing from the reports are the positive encouraging trends and the flourishing pro-social programs. Also, recent findings in evolutionary biology suggest that group altruism may be favored in natural selection--something hopeful for the future of the planet.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 15, 2015
Who Was the Most Destructive Jewish "Messiah"? It Wasn't Jesus Jesus was not the first or the last of Jewish "Messiahs." Jews reject all of them because they did not deliver the promises of the messiah prophesy. Many of these false messiahs did great damage to Jews and Judaism. Yet some are still revered. Jesus was a dedicated Jew who did no damage, yet he is shunned and condemned by Jews.It makes no sense. It's time for Jews to drop the Jesus phobia.
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(21 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 16, 2015
"Dumb and Dumber": An American Political Trademark? Frightening ignorance among many candidates seems to dominate the American political landscape. Some candidates seem to be mired down in beliefs and ideologies that resist facts and reason. The current political scene reflects what the constitution allows: that anyone can be president if he or she is 35 or older born in the U.S.and a resident for 14 years.Will we demand more to combat dumb and dumber?
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 23, 2015
Art Can Inspire Faith. It Can Also Empower Destructive Ideologies. Renaissance Art Depictions of Jesus Did Both A vast trove of Renaissance paintings omit Jesus Jewish heritage and identity. Presenting Jesus as a Renaissance Christian served the desire of the Christian leadership to promote the faith and separate Christianity from its Jewish roots. But most puzzling is the failure of modern day art historians, curators, and critics to acknowledge or comment on the falsification of biblical history in these artworks.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 25, 2015
Destroying Ivory to Save Elephants: Is it Working? At the present furious rate of elephant poaching, these majestic mammals may soon be gone from the planet. To stop the lucrative ivory trade governments have been pulverizing their vast collections of seized ivory. But is this strategy stopping the killing of elephants? The evidence says no. Other measures appear more promising for crushing the ivory trade and saving elephants from extinction .

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