Friday, December 23, 2022

Shining an Inside Light on Antisemitism

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  As Gilda and I stood in chilly Times Square Monday evening at a rally to “Shine a Light on Antisemitism” coordinated by UJA Federation of ...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

My Kind of Town—Chicago, Even in My Dreams

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Chicago was always one of my favorite places to visit, a city I travelled to about half a dozen times a year when I covered retailing, the W...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Connecting to A Painful Point of History

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News that the suspected Libyan bombmaker responsible for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, is now...
Friday, December 9, 2022

A Night at the Opera and Singing Along with Mitch

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Many of my blogs relate my experiences to current newsworthy happenings. Today’s entry is different. It focuses on the experience of someone...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Just Who Is Austin Pendleton and Why I Am I So Excited to See Him

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Wednesday night, for the third time in my life, I saw Austin Pendleton live.   Some, perhaps many of you, are wondering, who is Austin Pendl...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

For Trump, Shades of "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"

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Tuesday was not a very good day for The Donald. It was, to cite the well-regarded children’s book about Alexander, a “terrible, horrible, no...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Lessons From Camp Siegfried

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Can it happen here? Gilda and I caught the final performance of “Camp Siegfried” at Second Stage Theater Sunday. It’s a provocative, distu...