Every goddamn day: 09/16/26

       Happy New Year! I've fallen out of the habit of actually attending synagogue, but will join my wife as she livestreams services f...

Shofar (Metropolitan Museum of Art)       My first impulse was, "Ixnay on the whole Jewish New Year thing." I don't normally m...

      Donald Trump constantly proclaims himself to be smart, in fact a genius. Actual smart people rarely do that. First, it isn't smart...

     My mother is 88. She faithfully reads the Sun-Times (hi mom!), flips through the books I bring and sits in her chair next to my dad, wh...

          Anyone born a Jew is considered a Jew forever, no matter how little regard they have for their own religion or how few rituals the...

       Who doesn't love maps? I went to the Newberry Library Friday morning to see the Mike Royko exhibit — I felt obligated — then I sl...

Venezuelan family at Sullivan High School Thanksgiving Dinner 2023      People are more or less the same. Whether they wake up in a mansion ...