Category: Commentary

  • Tunes of Glory, Fifty Years later

    Having seen Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers, featuring Alec Guinness and the impeccably dappered and incisive Dennis Price with the usual suspects of English black comedy of the Fifties — Peter Sellars, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, et al, Jane and I have become dazzled by the Guinness portrayals. In 1958…

  • “As a Goy, I Say that Jews are Cool.”

    Ner Tamid is a local Reform congregation in Green Valley Ranch, Henderson, Nevada. Indeed, Green Valley is named after the Greenspun family that has made a considerably favorable impact on the local community. Green Valley is named after the Greenspuns. I cannot explain to you the differences between Reform, Reconstructionist,…

  • I Have One Day to Live

    I will finish the week, the month and go on to 2011, but I pose this to myself, for one day I will have one day to live. Regardless of the sickness, be it cancer or a stroke, there is the day before that. And if I were to be…

  • A Speculative Sharing, Make of It What You Will

    Across the spastic reaches of the void, convulsive and coughing tears of rent space, a laryngectomy of time, we come in. We plunge through, like a finger probing a hole. And after we are in, we are a raving neonate unknown to itself, years away from any kind of contemplation…