Mere hours before a mentally-challenged 30-year-old homeless man shouting at passengers on a New York subway was put in a chokehold by a passenger and died, I was harassed by a man on the Staten Island ferry. My incident ended on a happier note, at least for my harasser.
To read about it, click here.
It’s unusual—actually, unprecedented — for Agudath Israel of America or any of its affiliates to communicate with the judges who will choose the recipients of the annual Pulitzer Prizes. But it happens. Or, at least, happened. To read about the communication and what precipitated it, click here.
A piece I wrote to help set the record straight about the hospital “Chametz Law” passed by the Knesset was published by Forward. It can be read here.
I hope that a decades-old Supreme Court decision in favor of an airline will be able to join another airline’s worthless stock certificate on my Wall of Has-Beens.
To read about that decision and the reason for my hope, please click here:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently waved something of a red flag before some overly broadminded bulls — so to speak — when he addressed the role of religion in public service.
You can read about the flag, the bulls and more here.
Louis Eugene Walcott is a former nightclub singer who morphed into one of the most noxious Jew-haters of our time. He recently delivered an antisemitic rant to tens of thousands of gullible followers.
You know him by another name, the one he adopted, and can read more about him here.
There wasn’t a need to compose a Purim satire when the news provided enough to stimulate giggles. As you can read here:
Incentivizing the donation of a part of one’s body is inherently objectionable to many. But should it be?
A musing on that issue can be read here.
While the west coast’s torrential rains this winter and the recent devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria were light-years beyond anything my family and I ever experienced when we lived in Northern California in the late 1970s, they brought back memories of those days.
My musing about floods and earthquakes and the realization they should engender in us is here.
