Please be Aware
As longtime followers of this blog (not a large number, I suspect) are aware, I am a semiologist. Like Ferdinand Sassuer, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Roland Barth, I do not subscribe […]
Author Archives: Charles Bretan
Of Palms and Booths
מבבַּסֻּכֹּת תֵּשְׁבוּ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים כָּל הָאֶזְרָח בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשְׁבוּ בַּסֻּכֹּת מבבַּסֻּכֹּת תֵּשְׁבוּ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים כָּל הָאֶזְרָח בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשְׁבוּ בַּסֻּכֹּת: “For a seven-day period you shall live in booths. Every resident among […]
Awe Shucks
We have to come an important time of year in the Jewish Calendar. We are currently in what is known as “The Days of Awe,” the period of time between […]
Why I Went to Selma
Sunday, March 8, 2015, fifty years and one day after “Bloody Sunday,” I joined 100,000 of my closest friends in Selma, Alabama to walk in the footsteps of the righteous. […]
A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 