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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.
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Sam Kahn@98
posted: May 10, 2022.
May 9 would have been my dead father's 98th birthday. He has been dead over 9 years, yet he has never been more alive. I always regretted that my mother Read more -
Why Bilbo?
posted: Apr. 28, 2022.
Wars, poverty, surging crime. Death surrounds us all, like the ending of a Tom Stoppard play. Or Hamlet. And what does the mind of Dr. Sharon Kahn wrestle with these Read more -
Scylla & Charybdis
posted: Apr. 18, 2022.
Yesterday, I betook myself to see PENELOPE, a new and musical understanding of THE ODYSSEY. Ordinarily, I love alternative versions. Imagine, JANE EYRE told by Rochester's ward, Adele. Or Rochester's Read more -
Deny, deny, deny: until we die
posted: Apr. 12, 2022.
It is too much sorrow to bear and it is sorrowful daily. This morning. our beautiful subway system became a terror scene. And who can't imagine it--everyone living in New York Read more -
Who cancels whom?
posted: Mar. 24, 2022.
The treaty of Breda was the first bad deal for Nieuw Amsterdamers. It ceded Nieuw Amsterdam to the English (who promptly changed the name to New York) and cancelled the Read more -
Dr. Kahn, retiled psychologist
posted: Jan. 28, 2022.
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Oh no: Not the comfy pants
posted: Jan. 21, 2022.
In NYC, it was a frigid, frosty day. Your writer, not taking this serously, for after all, she had survived Binghamton winters, replete with near frostbitten fingers and toes, went Read more
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