When I was very young, it was not uncommon for either of my parents to say I was “spoiled”. I sometimes helplessly retaliated: “Well, you spoiled me!” but it was never satisfying to me internally or even believable, even to myself. I was given a lot of things and let’s…

I am not immune. Putin is bad, perhaps crazy, he is a dictator who is presently egregiously aiming to break the will of Ukraine through armed attacks that are killing civilians and the most vulnerable of them, including pregnant mothers. He is trying to destroy the possibility of Ukraine becoming…

No this is not SNL material — at least not yet — though they’re free to use it — that is while this particular freedom might still be in place, you know the freedom of speech. Before I go deeper, let me say I recognize that a vast part of…

I love Whoopi Goldberg, period. She should not be suspended by ABC because of an opinion that I feel is simply a mistake. She felt Nazism was a set of human crimes and she was looking at it as a humanist. I get it and in a fundamental way I…

No, I didn’t think so. Okay I’ll tell you. It is an international committee on human rights that will ask detainees in Guantanamo if they are being treated well. So far the only nation to veto the proceedings, appears to be the United States. Perhaps what makes a headline a…

Once upon a time, I sat in a history class in Brooklyn College where a largely Jewish group of students fervently argued the case against the bulk of German citizens knowing about the Holocaust and about concentration camps. It couldn’t have been, we insisted, and we really didn’t want to…

While there was nothing psychedelic about it, literally speaking, it feels there could have been. It is mystical and beautiful and sentimental and carries you — it carried me to places very very deep inside. …

It’s hard to avoid the news cycles and their drama though I do try. However the sounds from the neighboring room, were about Texas and about a town meeting regarding comments by a school official having to do with the teaching of the Holocaust. …