Why I Went to Selma
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, We have brought this post out of the archives. Sunday, March 8, 2015, fifty years and one day after “Bloody Sunday,” I […]
Good & Evil, redux
About a month from this posting we will hosting our second book salon. The text chosen (not to be confused with the “Chosen Text”) is The Banality of Good and […]
When My Daddy Lost His Happy
In “Awakenings” (1990), Robin Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy physician who’s hired in a Bronx hospital to take care of catatonic patients. His patients survived an epidemic of […]
Explaining Away the Myth of Judeo-Christianity While Standing on One Foot
I love The Princess Bride. It is filled with so many memorable quotations: “Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something,” “True love is the greatest thing in […]
A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 