Every Good Morning

Every Saturday before Services, private security arrives to take their places at the doors, and a police car sits, conspicuously, close by. After Tree of Life , after Colleyville , after Charlottesville , after countless MAGA attacks on George Soro s and the dog whistle references to ‘ cosmopolitan elites ’, after Trump’s attacks on American Jews , after tranches of threats, after who knows how many individual attacks , this is how the congregants’ worship at a friend’s synagogue. Anti-Semitism, always an undercurrent in American life, has […]

  I have watched so many more movies than I have read books.  I remember the original King Kong on the Five o’clock Movie, the stop-action movements of Kong in a black and white so vivid and engulfing that at 7 or 8 I became entranced. I have remained entranced. If you love movies, it may be because they sweep you away like a benevolent, inspiring riptide, a long blissful and tumultuous […]