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Distaste for column, but loyalty for paper

As an advertiser in the Atlanta Jewish Times for nearly two decades, my phone has been ringing non-stop and my email box overflowing with people around the country demanding I pull my advertising from the AJT. Needless to say, this has been quite distressing to me. Nearly 4,000 readers of the AJT have become customers [...]

Julie Love: Epilogue

Much has been written about Julie Love ever since her life came to a sudden and tragic end nearly 23 years ago. All of it has focused on her murder, the search for her body, the arrest of her killer, the trial that followed and bearing witness to Emmanuel Hammond’s execution. On the eve of [...]

An aging liberal’s paean to today’s protestors

On the eve of my 62nd birthday, I have attained another rite of passage into senior-hood.  Wednesday, I’ll go into St. Francis to go under the scalpel – actually the laser – to have my prostate reshaped, so that nature might more easily take its course. I don’t fear the transitory pain or the possible [...]

From my lips: Samantha, the dog

When it was over, they stuck Samantha in the back of my now-grown daughter’s closet. Even at 40, it was an ignominious end for a beloved companion. There she laid, floppy ears askew, along with the other castoffs – objects too meaningful to throw away, but too far beyond utilitarian purpose to be more than [...]

AJC: Keystone Pipeline Key to Strengthening Energy Security

October 6, 2011 – New York – AJC is urging Secretary of State Clinton to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline as a crucial step in strengthening U.S. energy security. “AJC has long believed that energy security is a crucial element of our national security—and that the United States must set as a [...]

From my lips: “ . . . To all who call upon Him . . .”

Another year passes away so quickly and I ponder again, on the eve of a new Jewish year, memories that lead me back to my dabbling in faux-piety in the summer of my 13th year. That summer, I returned from Camp Ramah pumped up on Judaism, under the influence of a counselor who may as [...]

A world view from JNF and ‘Golda’s Balcony’

The Atlanta Jewish community is abuzz in anticipation of the opening of Alliance Theater’s “Golda’s Balcony,” the Tony Award winning show portraying the life of Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth Prime Minister. The show promises to reveal the calculations, emotions and resolve that chiseled Golda’s decision making and laid a path for the modern State of [...]

From my lips: Schmaltz, the pornography connection

Schmaltz, that mystical alchemy of onion-infused chicken fat, is Jewish pornography.  It corrupts the brain and heart.  We hide it at the back of the shelf, where only the adult hand may reach.  It tempts us, and if we capitulate even a little, it punctuates our bland existence with randy diversion into illicit pleasure – [...]