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 [...]
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Gimme Some Truth (I)
In the comments we’ve begun discussing the latest controversy concerning Cindy Sheehan. No, not her and her husband’s divorce. That got cleared up the same day it hit the news. I’m talking about the March 15, 2005 letter to Nightline that’s been shooting around the internet in various forms at least since August 11. Before [...]
Genius Scientist Discovers His Research May Be Used For Evil, Becomes Pacifist
No, damn it. Albert Einstein was a political radical and anti-racist. When it came to how to handle Einstein’s ashes or his house on Mercer Street, everyone involved meticulously adhered to his wishes. But when it involved his ideas, and especially his concerns about what he called America’s “worst disease,” the fact that Einstein wanted [...]
Oooo, my good friend Kaspit has started a blog . . .
My brilliant and zany friend now has a blog called Kaspit! Kaspit isn’t my friend’s real name, of course. Kaspit (by my friend’s coinage?) is the Hebrew word for Quicksilver. Kaspit’s blog is about Jewish law, comic books and public policy, among other things. You may have seen other blogs on classical rabbinic literature, but [...]
Good Stuff From The Comments
• After I blogged my friend Dana’s memoir piece on her 1999 trip to Auchwitz, she commented to send me over to the website of Peter Cunningham, the photographer whose photo of Dana appears in her article. Peter has spent years photographing musicians and there is a nice link on his site to those pictures. [...]
The 1955 Emmett Till Trial Transcript: A Map Of American White Supremacism
The New York Times has a better article (via Prometheus 6) than the one I linked to last night. The Times article goes through the interesting history of the last copy of the transcript that had been known before the new one was found: Investigators verified the transcript’s authenticity, Mr. Garrity said, by comparing it [...]
A town called Oswieçim
Earlier tonight, I was at the Cambridge (MA) City-wide Holocaust Commemoration. One of the musical interludes at the event was performed by my friend Dana Kletter. She did Chava Alberstein‘s musical setting of Zelda‘s Hebrew poem, Each Of Us Has A Name. Dana is best known as a critically acclaimed musician, but she is also [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From The Sphere
While I haven’t been blogging, I’ve still been reading blogs, so here’s a rundown on some of the highlights.
Hungry Blues III
Dad had a number of stories like this one, lessons in being on the outside. The most developed one, and the most fully fictionalized, is “Lonesome Blues” , the story I posted in September, named after the song by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives . In “Lonesome Blues,” the high school years of a suicide jazz musician, Mo Bartel, closely mirror my father’s.
Moral Grandeur And Spiritual Audacity
TO PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, THE WHITE HOUSE, JUNE 16, 1963 I LOOK FORWARD TO PRIVILEGE OF BEING PRESENT AT MEETING TOMORROW AT 4 P.M. LIKELIHOOD EXISTS THAT NEGRO PROBLEM WILL BE LIKE THE WEATHER. EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT BUT NOBODY DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT. PLEASE DEMAND OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT NOT JUST SOLEMN [...]
For This Final Day of Hanukah
Dinga lingle lingle, I ring your bell
Knocka knock knockie knock at your door
The week of Hanuka now is here
And you must be sad no more . . .
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