Hero or Anti-Hero

The saddest words: “It might have been.”  What might have been? I wish the two speakers at a rally I attended in late October had prevailed....

From the Jerusalem Post: police protection for American synagogues needed after hundreds of threats. “ US Jews suffer nearly 200 swatting, f...

Happy New Year, 2023! The past year has seen a number of heroes, anti-heroes, villains, and outright monsters in the news. While I have not ...

Volodymyr Zelenskiy (born January 25, 1978) is obviously the principal hero of the civilized world this year. As shown in this current photo...

Four years ago, I declared this blog to be a place where I would write about resistance to an obviously treasonous presidency, and I did so ...

 

Beethoven's Birthday and Chanukah : from maefood.blogspot.com See, the conqu'ring hero comes! Sound the trumpets! Beat the drums! S...

 

The Coffee Trader , published 2003, with coffee beans, which play a big role in the novel, as they do in my daily life. “It rippled t...

The obituary of Albert Memmi, the French-Tunisian-Jewish writer, was published in today's New York Times ( link ): "Mr. Memmi ...

We finally have a sign acknowledging the heroism of essential workers in our society. Sign installed on our lawn. Heroism is a c...

A Svengali is "a person who manipulates or exerts excessive control over another." Curious about the history of this intriguing a...

"Je n'ai pas peur de la mort; j'aime mon pays et je meurs pour sa libèration, comme l'ont fait mes amis. [I am not afraid...

My desperation is painful: How can I manage to see a way to stop  or even to protest the horrendous abuse of immigrants at our border, espec...

Photo of the Yiddish Book Center ( https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/ ) in Amherst, Massachusetts. (2003). The architecture echoes the lo...

From "The Resistance Strikes Back" by Michelle Goldberg  in the New York Times: "On Thursday we learned that ... Lucy McBat...

BUT: here's another view of this new ice cream flavor. One of their choices has become toxic because of the antisemitism which is fundam...

From the New York Times

Freedom is a word that everyone knows. But advocates of freedom, while often striving for equivalent human goals, have expressed their comm...

"From the moment they arrived in DC, the alt-right attendees were greatly outnumbered by thousands of counterprotesters, who took to ...

"Police on Wednesday booked Austin Mikel Clay on suspicion of felony vandalism in connection with [Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of...