Columns

Documentary proves to be in the form of a true page-turner

March 29, 2023

Berl Falbaum   After seeing the documentary, “Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,” I will never again complain or whine about the edits, revisions and/or deletions made in my columns by the editors of The Detroit ...

Protecting LGBTQ+ rights and the work ahead

March 29, 2023

Jay Kaplan ACLU?of Michigan Michigan’s LGBTQ+ community’s struggle to ensure equal protection under the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) of 1976 has been going on almost as long as the act has been in place.  Now, the ...

Gun plague hits home with advent of weapon for kids

March 29, 2023

Berl Falbaum Periodically, one comes across a story which makes you shake your head and insist, “This can’t be true.” The following is one of these stories and it is true. We suspect that it may have escaped your radar. A gun company in Bensenville, ...

'Attorney Woo' is must-see TV in any language

March 29, 2023

Berl Falbaum Pure joy. Those were the two words that continually came into my consciousness as I was writing this column on the Netflix series, “The Extraordinary Attorney Woo.” Based in Seoul, Korea (with subtitles), it centers around a young ...

Basic values take a customary back seat to expediency

March 29, 2023

Berl Falbaum As we reach a pivotal point in the history of the country with criminal referrals relating to Donald Trump’s presidency to the Department of Justice, I thought it is high time to ask a very basic question: When does one abandon values in ...

An ex-Speaker's turnabout ranks as one for the ages

March 29, 2023

Berl Falbaum What if I told you that Brutus didn’t think that Caesar was such a bad guy? Or that the Capulets were reconsidering accepting Romeo as a potential beau for Juliet. Or that the McCoys were planning to ask the Hatfields to come from Virginia ...