The Holidays are a time for spending time with your friends, family and loved ones – the holidays are also a time for unwanted guests. These unwanted guests aren’t just Aunt Edna or that neighbor from down the street who won’t stop talking, it’s also the Flu, COVID and RSV. […]
Standing up for Peace on Memorial Day
Originally published on the author’s Substack Another annual holiday rant I’ve written something like this pretty much every Memorial Day since I first joined social media. It’s become a tradition. Consider it an antidote to all the flag-waving, “thank you for your service” platitudes you’ll see everywhere else. I hate […]
Do We “Resemble” God?
And Did Thousands of Human Beings See God When He Gave Moses the Law? Yesterday evening the Jewish holiday of Shavuot began. This is one of the many Jewish holidays to which I, as a secularized Jew, have, for most of my life, paid almost no attention. The festival commemorates […]
Scenes From The Streets of Israel; Happy Passover!
Have a Happy and Meaningful Passover Happy Passover (Pesach) from here in Israel, or as we say, חג כשר ושמח! Pesach is a holiday that begins Wednesday night and has been celebrated by Jews throughout all of history since biblical times. It’s the celebration of Hashem’s open miracles when He […]
Rock of Ages: Hanukkah, Christmas, and the Actual Miracle
I lit candles tonight for the first night of Hanukkah — with my Irish Catholic husband standing nearby. He proudly mentioned the “shamash”, the guardian candle that lights all the others. “I’ve been doing research,” he said; and I took that as a gift. My aunt, J., in California, who […]
Thanksgiving in A Victim World
Resuming our National Holidays After a Mass Violation I recently traveled to Florida, to do research for a new book. I stayed in a hotel for almost a week, in a modest, touristy town, a few miles from the beach. Every day, from the moment I opened my eyes til […]