Elke was a liberal, compassionate Californian just like the rest of our roommates, and she always shared the chocolate her sister sent sent her from Hamburg. I couldn’t just flat out ask if her relatives were Nazis; we already had one chick who liked to do naked yoga in the livingroom and that caused enough household tension. Continue reading
Nazareth’s most famous Jewish carpenter may have some ‘splainin to do: First comes the news that maybe he didn’t really walk on water across the Sea of Galilee (known as Lake Kinneret to Israelis,) but caught a ride on a … Continue reading
He knew the horror of the camps and the Holocaust; he understood the reality of SIX MILLION. He was there, and he survived. After it was over he could have moved to America, moved on, like so many European survivors … Continue reading
Listen, we all have our weird childhood stories. The ones that we tell on the third or fourth date to gauge whether this relationship could get more serious, the tales of familial dysfunction that reveal our own inescapable flaws, those … Continue reading
The notion of “homeschool” always confounds me. There’s home, where you sleep and eat and watch t.v. in your underpants. And there’s school, where you spend daytime hours with people born in the same year as you, torturing each other … Continue reading
It’s Thursday, and for the past five years, that’s meant lunch with my mother-in-law. I used to write about how we used to kibbitz with the seniors at the JEA—good times. Even as my MIL lost her ability to speak, … Continue reading
I normally try to abstain from mixing writing gigs (and metaphors), but this piece appeared a few months ago in the literary edition of the awesome art journal OUTLET and I wanted to share it with a bigger audience. I’m … Continue reading
Boo-YAH! The promised End of the World came and went and we’re all still here, ain’t we? But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t enraptured this weekend: After dropping off the kinder for their last Shalom School of the year to … Continue reading
Just when you thought things couldn’t get more absurd, that ignorance-luvin’ element of our society that rejects evolution and dinosaurs has now turned its dull Cyclops eye on Einstein. University of Virginia physics professor Paul Fishbane writes in yesterday’s Tablet … Continue reading
Last post I had to get all furtive about why I’ve been a slow Yenta because there was a VERY BIG SECRET at stake. You should know by now that beguilement is NOT my strong suit (unlike loquaciousness, kvetching and … Continue reading