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Girls Rule
posted: May 30, 2023.
I decided to watch "Alice in Wonderland," the 1915 version on Youtube last night. What ginned it was watching Jefferson Airplane's WHITE RABBIT video and realizing that much of the Read more -
Theory of Mind
posted: Apr. 09, 2023.
I realized this week what traits distinguish people I find delightfully gemultlikeit and those I just want to slap. Theory of Mind (ToM). Theory of mind is a concept from Read more -
What was it all for?
posted: Mar. 31, 2023.
My public school life, even though it occurred in a one-horse, anti-Semitic, blue-collar town, daily offered us aspirational cognitiions, with hope for a mutlicultural, pluralistic society where the US was Read more -
Hobbits are us
posted: Mar. 10, 2023.
Tolkien's genius was not so much about the creation of languages no urbane person would wish to admit to speak. It was not so much about the revitalization of Nordic Read more -
Chutzpah over credentials equals sociopathy
posted: Feb. 05, 2023.
This past Friday I was invited to dinner by a woman who promotes herself as a psychotherapist. She does a lot of telehealth these days with patients in Israel. Read more -
Existentialism in DeLillo
posted: Jan. 01, 2023.
Looking for a new book, and just finding all the new books stacked enticingly on the front desks at Barnes and Noble jejeune, jaundiced, and banded together in a bandwagon Read more -
Rising tides for some means leaking drainpipes for us
posted: Dec. 04, 2022.
Yesterday I testified in front of the CUNY Board of Trustees. Adjunct contracts end in February. According to US News and World Reports, 22% of matriculating students graduate from a two Read more -
Where is a golem when you need one?
posted: Nov. 01, 2022.
I am weary of movies with gentile action heroes with Christian values, working in cooperation with the supercapitalistic non-empathy system. Superman? Sure, born Kalel, which is vaguely based on Hebrew, Read more -
A conspiracy of corpses
posted: Sep. 26, 2022.
Any avid reader of fictional crime capers knows that half the thrill of the read is picking up the clues and places them in a pattern alongside the sleuth. We Read more -
Motherless Jews
posted: Sep. 20, 2022.
A few weeks past, I wrote how there were few women in LOTR. But they are just as sparse in the Old Testament. Adam has direct communication with G-d. Eve never Read more -
Gory, Gorier, and Gorey. Golly Gee
posted: Sep. 14, 2022.
Usually when I read a new JK Rowling book, I inhale deeply and say, (inwardly) "Oh Dame Rowling, you just go from strength to strength--first, with the Harry Potter series--the Read more -
Dybbuks surround us
posted: Aug. 18, 2022.
I have noticed something about the hard core COVID refuseniks--the individuals who refuse to get the vaccination. Once they get their teeth around the topic, a dybbuk emerges and posseses Read more -
Maman died today
posted: Jul. 19, 2022.
"or yesterday, maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home...that doesn't mean anything...." Camus--THE STRANGER. Even 80 years ago, even in Morocco. Or Algeria. Too poor, too alone. Read more -
Stages of Mourning
posted: Jul. 06, 2022.
Nothing is what I thought it would be. I thought after my mother passed, I would be freed of the memories of the past 7 years and remember her as Read more -
Mourning, Part II
posted: Jul. 04, 2022.
When I was about 22 and in my very first semester of grad school, I was so tense and so emotionally lost. My relationship with the person I thought was Read more -
Sylvia Irene Berkowitz Kahn: October 31, 1935 to June 13, 2022
posted: Jun. 14, 2022.
In the waning hours of the evening of June 13, 2022, my mother finally passed over.
And I am numb, amotivated, and lonely, except for the moments when I realize
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