Demonstrators, media “personalities,” columnists, all manner of mankind tell us hour by hour what matters and manners of life in the USA are problematic. Supposed racism, alleged bias against men and women of differing ethnicity are lined up against the…
The world right now is a tinderbox. In the Middle East, Hamas is putting up a fight against the mighty Israel Defense Forces that few would have expected just four months ago. Despite total dominance in the air and in…
It’s been a difficult time for many of us Americans in the last few years. The war in Israel has Israel fighting for its life. Clearly, it would not have any life at all without U.S. help for the Jewish…
2023 This has been the worst year of my life. On July 4, our son, Tommy, died of a sudden and unexpected disease that took his life like a lightning streak. I loved that young man like a hurricane. I…
Sunday Why do people hate Jews? The Jewish religion and faith is the oldest continuously practiced as such in mankind’s history. Jews — an immeasurably small percentage of the world’s population — have been spectacularly productive in terms of science,…
As I survey the few friends I have left as I enter into old age, I see some who are in misery and some who are in pretty good shape psychologically and emotionally. There are many differences between them, and…
Now for a few words on important subjects of the day. 1. I am getting ready to go to the Shiva for my departed friend Norman Lear. Norman was the first close friend I had in Hollywood. Despite yawning chasms…
For most of my long-vanished youth, I watched very little television. But in my late twenties, when I was a teacher and a resident preceptor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, I began to watch more TV in…
Ever since the satanic days of Oct. 7 and Oct. 8, when Hamas organized murderers raped, tortured, butchered, and tormented 1400 Israeli civilians, and Israel began — just “began” — to fight back, I have been besieged by questioners who…
For almost all of my life, I have been humbly, on my knees, grateful to be a Jew in America. After 6,000 years of persecution and murder in Europe, the United States of America beckoned as the ultimate refuge for…