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The Torah of our lives: On writing the next chapter
“Boomers [people born between 1946 and 1964] are the first generation in human history … to reasonably anticipate living well and wholesomely into their 80s and 90s, if not beyond,” sociologist Steven Cohen writes.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Kerouac at the Cinema
I can see myself, talking about one of those books of life, a source of sustenance for young people refusing the inevitability of an timid existence, one somehow cracked or just rocked softly into precocious old age, a book like a bible, a treatise on savoir-vivre for the use of future generations, Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
Pikesville Native Searches For God
The voice was crystal clear, ethereal, uncompromising and unequivocal. It didn’t mince words, and it even had a lilting Caribbean or West African accent.
When your brother will be low: Parashat Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34)
He flopped down on the couch in my study, looking pale, upset. “What is it?” I asked, imagining a bad diagnosis.
Is American decline real?
“[T]he United States cannot afford another decline like that which has characterized the past decade and a half....[O]nly self-delusion can keep us from admitting our decline to ourselves.” – Henry A. Kissinger, 1961 In these words, one of America’s most distinguished strategic thinkers and policy makers expresses alarm at America’s condition and the perils it faces. The warning seems timely ...
“The Aleppo Codex”: The bizarre history of a precious book
An ancient and priceless book, a murky history of evasions and coverups, an underground of sinister and possibly violent dealers, a former spy who drops tantalizing hints and a wily 84-year-old millionaire who says stuff like, "The problem with this story is that it could damage your health": Are these the ingredients for a cheesy, improbable historical thriller? Yet "The Aleppo Codex," Matti ...
Reform Temples Hosting Top Kaballah Scholar
In the past decade, kabbalah , Jewish mysticism, has experienced a massive surge in popularity, largely owing to an interest by mega-celebrities such as Madonna. But with such spotlights often comes a dilution of the original tradition and intent of its creators.
“Bring Up the Bodies”: Hilary Mantel’s power play
"Bring Up the Bodies," Hilary Mantel's follow-up to her Man Booker Prize-winning 2009 novel, "Wolf Hall," is a high-wire act, a feat of novelistic derring-do. Mantel makes bold not with form -- by now meaningful experimentation in that area seems exhausted -- but with the very material that brings most readers to novels in the first place: our imaginative identification with fictional characters ...
Book Review: ‘I Am Forbidden’ by Anouk Markovit
Reviewed by Jack Riemer ~ This could have been an easy novel to write. The author could have written the story of a free spirit who broke loose from the... Read more »
More than skin deep
Yuck, skin disease! This has been the cry of many a bar and bat mitzvah student when informed that this week’s Torah portion will be their Torah reading on their big day. I empathize with them, for I have had the same reaction in preparing this column.
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