Rokhl Kafrissen recently published an awesome statement on contemporary Jewish American identity (via Mark Rubin). This is the sort of thing that I wish I’d written, because it comes so close to my own views. Here’s points 3 and 4, out of 6, central to the manifesto: 3. Jewish religion cannot be divorced from Jewish [...]
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Twenty-Five Years
Twenty-five years ago today (12/9), I was eleven years old, going on twelve. I swear I knew every Beatles song by heart, knew every published detail of the band’s history. And John was my favorite. He was the coolest one. His songs were the best ones. HIs solo work was the strongest. He had real [...]
Oh What A Beautiful City
Pete Seeger continues to be a big favorite for my toddler. Standing in the chair in front of our stereo, he pulls the Pete Seeger CD of choice out of the stack, gets the disc out of the case, opens the CD player drawer, places the disc in, closes the drawer—and finds his favorite songs [...]
Staying On Subject
Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, she beheld her tender Child All with scourges rent: For the sins of His own nation, saw Him hang in desolation, Till His spirit forth He sent. –Stabat Mater studyholic, Sorry it’s taken me a little while to respond to your second comment. But maybe it’s a good thing that some [...]
FOX Unleashes Vile McCarthyite Smear Campaign Against Cindy and the Peace Movement
Headline is from Bob Fertig at Democrats.com. He writes: In order to trash Cindy, [FOX's John] Gibson called on Ira Stoll, editor of the rightwing New York Sun and author of “Cindy Sheehan’s Crowd.” Stoll attacked Cindy for working with “extreme groups and individuals”: Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out all [...]
Studs On Pete
This is a little dated, but it’s good and Technorati says hardly anyone blogged it. For all my fellow red diaper babies: Pete Seeger Is 86 by STUDS TERKEL It is hard to think of Pete Seeger as an elderly gaffer, because the boy in him, the light, remains undimmed. It was sixty-five years ago [...]
William J. Douthard (aka “Meatball”), Jan. 6, 1947 – Jan. 4, 1981
I first mentioned William Douthard in passing here. At the right is a flier from a civil rights rally I think my father organized, where William spoke (click on the image to enlarge). William Douthard was a student demonstration leader in Birmingham, Alabama, which was where he and my father met. To many in the [...]
p.s.
Sorry it’s been so quiet over here. Had a bad cold last week and was also working on some writing for print publication (more on that soon). Over Memorial Day weekend we visited my mother, and I spent some more time with my father’s papers. I brought a bunch of new papers back home, some [...]
Block Artist
Speaking of children, my two year old has been doing wonderful things with blocks.
This Ought To Be Part Of Discussions Of The Ja’eisha Scott Case
You know, when they start saying knee-jerk stuff about how the problem is Inga Akins’ parenting of Ja’eisha. Tying such dire predictions of social decay to divorce and single motherhood seemed credible in the 1970s and 1980s. But a funny thing happened in the 1990s: Almost every negative social trend tracked by the census, the [...]
Mother’s Day and Yom Ha’shoah
It just so happens that this year Mother’s Day falls on the same weekend that much of the Jewish world is observing Yom Ha’shoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day (which fell on Thursday). This post started as a sort of personal history of coming to terms with the impact of the Shoah on my [...]
Why Haven’t They Handcuffed Jennifer Wilbanks And Thrown Her In Jail Already??
If the cops don’t teach her lesson now, at age 24, by age 30 she’ll be knocking off banks and engaged in prostitution. Mark my words…
It’s Almost Passover (Rerun)
[I never marked the first anniversary of HungryBlues back in March, but I think that gives me occasional license to rerun posts that are more than a year old. What follows is a slightly shortened version my post from this time (on the Jewish calendar) last year. I think I have some more readers since [...]
Last Week Was An Interesting Week
Two Fridays ago (4/8), my mother called to tell me she had just talked with a retired journalist, named Jeff Prugh. Apparently Jeff had come across my posts on the Roosevelt Tatum story, and he wanted to talk with me. Between my father’s name and the mentions of Delmar, NY in the Tatum series (I [...]
Hungry Blues IV
I mentioned in part III of this series that I can date the handwritten drafts of Long Days Short Nights because of a passage about Frankie Newton. I am posting that passage here, though it was not intended for publication. It is an unpolished prose sketch, written in one shot, to get the material down [...]
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