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“I have a dream, a fabulous dream, babe” — “Gypsy.” Rosalind Russell with high heels stomping on stage, in deep swagger, blaring out her song, like Ethel Merman on steroids, it is a self proclamation. I associate to Martin Luther, anti-Semite par excellence, who majestically told eternal Rome and her pope: “Here I stand.” All that in […]

  In the past 90 days or so I have had difficulties getting a good night’s sleep. For me that means at least about 5 to 6 hours uninterrupted by bathroom visits. As time went on the amount of sleep was gradually reduced to about one or two hours and then 45 minutes of restlessness — […]

Gifting a friend with a copy of Down to a Sunless Sea, I browsed through the book until I came to “Echo,” a story about the relationship between two men, David and Jonathan, and for the first time I realized that it was a hearkening back to ancient Israel. And then I came across a […]

I think there is much truth to the idea that when you deal with a Nazi, an unregenerate Nazi, reasoning, persuasion, common sense and pleading count for nothing. After all the movies you and I have seen, all the documentaries about the Holocaust over the decades you realize that the Nazi mind is unrecoverable, for […]