Month: January 2011
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Public speaking & published writing
My mom recently found my bar-mitzvah speech, written and delivered by my 13-year-old self, Oct. 17, 1982. I’m transcribing it here exactly the way it appears on the yellowed copy I used on the bimah: HONORED RABBIS, GUESTS, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS. In the beginning of the year my mother asked me if I wanted to…
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Those Were The Days
My beautiful, talented daughter had some time to create original art on Sunday. While I was doing something (monumentally important, I’m sure) she brought me this picture of “Ima’s house when she was little.” Lovely, right? We’ve been to that neighborhood, and this ain’t a bad representation, actually, not that she was trying for realism.…