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Chanukah 2021: Night Three

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Memorializing Year Nineteen

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I don't have anything particularly wise or witty to share on the 19th anniversary of 9/11. As a New Yorker, I remember every minute of the day and those which preceded. I will NEVER forget the smell of smoke, engine fuel, metal, and human lives in the air. I'll never forget the people who reached … Continue reading Memorializing Year Nineteen

Daily Actions: August 5th

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Remembering The Fallen

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Coming Out Of The Ancestral “Closet”

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Coming Out of The Ancestral “Closet” I find it more than a little appalling that in 2014, I am still being asked “What are you?” Not “What religion are you?” or your average, inappropriate social questions, which, by my standards, are still rude. No, it’s always been “What ARE you?”, with such profound emphasis, as if … Continue reading Coming Out Of The Ancestral “Closet”

The Day The World Changed & How I Changed With It…

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The world was irrevocably changed on September 11th,2001. Lives were affected globally. People cried and mourned, and unfortunately in certain countries, some people celebrated what they felt would be the demise of America. There’s a special place in hell for people like that, and I don’t even believe in a heaven/hell concept. There’s really no … Continue reading The Day The World Changed & How I Changed With It…