Category Archives: General

My grandson Daniel has just concluded his final weeks in the IDF, sweltering in a bunker on the Golan Heights during this summer’s heatwave. He remarked, in a posting on his Face Book page “I’m witnessing a Syrian fox making … Continue reading →

Tony Judt, scholar of modern European history and an insightful essayist, is dead. Numerous obituaries describing his life and work have been published, and I have little to add to them. I never studied with Tony Judt, never met him, … Continue reading →

1. A few days after returning from a vacation in the Yosemite National Park, I dreamt that I was sitting by a large window in a train traveling through mountainous, alpine terrain. The landscape outside was blanketed with snow, flat … Continue reading →

my problem with praying he began to explain but they silenced him with guffaws and insolent scoffing no they said tell us first why you don’t eat pork or prawns or lobsters or shrimps or german blood sausage and do … Continue reading →