When I first came to KBOO five years ago to become a music programmer, I was given a stack of materials to read including Programmer’s Rights and Responsibilities, and told that before I went on-air I would have to sign a programmer’s contract. All the members of our music show’s collective were told the same thing during the training, but none of us ever met formally with staff for this purpose, or were ever asked to sign anything.

Within six months of my arrival at KBOO, a minor dispute arose between me and another volunteer. I looked to the KBOO documents provided to me earlier and followed the dispute resolution process to the letter.

About a decade ago, a friend and I visited the infamous Dachau concentration camp, just outside Munich Germany.   As a Jew the experience was intense and overwhelming.  We visited the barracks, gas chambers, crematorium, and later the cemetery where untold remains of hundreds of thousands of our people are buried. 

The last place we visited was a small chapel.  It was tastefully built in a way that you would not know it was not original to the site. Although it was clearly a church, perhaps run by a local monastic order, it was appropriate and welcoming to all.

In his prepared remarks last month,Akiva Tor refered to a cabinet meeting taking place the same day.  The next day there were press reports of Israeli concessions on building in East Jerusalem ...