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  1. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading (yes I know I start all my "reviews" this way) How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Foregiveness by Harold S. Kushner. Just as I did with When Bad Things Happen to Good People, I am giving this a "five." Judaism admits of many points of view on many...
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    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt. I am the big fan of Deborah Libstadt's writing, and when faced with a choice of reading this book, of 250 or so pages compared to Gol'da Meirs own memoir, either approaching or over 1000 pages, the choice was obvious...
  3. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I read Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio J. Méndez back in 2016. Exciting and well-written, this book really brings you back to the dark days of 1979-80. The Canadians really provided a ray of light. The Canadians really provided a ray of...
  4. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I used this reading Blindsight is 2020: Reflections on Covid Policies by Gabrielle Bauer. If ever there was a book that needed writing it was this one. If there was ever an author that needed to write this book, it was Gabrielle Bauer. The author reflects thoughts that I have had since a few...
  5. jbg

    Return to Natural, Edenic Paradise? Not So Fast, even in "protected" areas

    Can we, even in National Parks and wilderness areas, restore a pre-(white man) settlement Eden in the New World? I don't think so. I recently finished reading The Return of Wolves: An Iconic Predator’s Struggle to Survive in the American West by Eli Francovich. This book focuses on unique...
  6. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading The Return of Wolves: An Iconic Predator’s Struggle to Survive in the American West by Eli Francovich. This subject has always been a favorite of mine. I will give it four stars, with, as usual, my quibbles. The foremost quibble would be the end, where the author seems to...
  7. jbg

    Non-Literature, Non-Art, Non-Music - Theater of the Absurd

    During the periods following WW I and WW II, various absurdist "art" forms evolved, that were, by design, utterly pointless. There were books such as Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Gripping it is not. I suppose it is one of the better of the "theater of the absurd" that became popular in...
  8. jbg

    Hebrew and Religious School Decorum, 1970 vs. 2023, Ages 13 v. 66

    I don't know if this belongs here, or in one of the non-religious sections. Feel free to move this thread. This morning, I lead "Torah Study," roughly the equivalent of Bible study. There were about twenty adults, ranging from about 55 to people in their 80's, in attendance. I was the lay...
  9. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Gripping it is not. I suppose it is one of the better of the "theater of the absurd" that became popular in the wake of WWI. Other examples include Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco, of which I'll add a review shortly. Though not...
  10. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World by Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss. Keep in mind the author is a rare animal; a Fox reporter who is a Democrat. I read this book in seven days; from October 28 to November 3. It was a page turner...
  11. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything by Christopher F. Rufo. I'll start with my usual critique of these kinds of books; they are an immediate turnoff for those that conservatives need to persuade. Even though personally I am a leftist...
  12. jbg

    Who Prescribes Fentanyl & Other Deadly Recreational Drugs and Why Do They Get Away With It?

    Someone asked an interesting question: who prescribes Fentanyl and other deadly recreational drugs and why do they get away with it? All the time people are hospitalized as a result of OD'ing on Fentanyl and other deadly recreational drugs, involved in accidents or otherwise. A good question...
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  13. jbg

    "Human animals"

    Humans are obviously close relatives of chimps. Certain societies have barely evolved further than chimps. Others have. They are not morally equivalent.
  14. jbg

    Israeli Duty to Warn? What unmitigated gall (chutzpah)

    I agree tha toil is not the major concern but whether the imports are 9% or some higher or lower number is irrelevant. Oil is fungible so a reduction in supply immediately echoes in the price and availability. In other words if the supply drops worldwide it affects everyone. That is why world...
  15. jbg

    Hotel California Redoux - Another 1979-like Right Wing Shift?

    I am well aware that the album of that title came out in very late 1976 or January 1977. The first hit single on it was the almost-forgotten New Kid in Town, which I think celebrated Carter's accession to the White House. I was at the DNC in 1976 on a press pass, not as a delegate. I was very...
  16. jbg

    How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy

    My own feeling is that small states have a natural tendency to fight, federate or both. Examples are the Holy Roman Empire, the U.S., Canada and more recently Europe. I think "parallel" is a better word. I doubt that the Iroquois example was a model; it was an example of the same phenomena.
  17. jbg

    Hotel California Redoux - Another 1979-like Right Wing Shift?

    As the Eagles said, we haven’t had the spirit here since 1979, when the U.S. lurched from the liberalism of the New Deal and Kennedy eras, to Jimmy Carter, towards Ronald Reagan's landslide election. Several storm flags are flying: In synagogue tonight, my Rabbi, generally a woke liberal, was...
  18. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurrican in History by Erik Larson. This follows close on the heels of A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin. This is the story of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the...
  19. jbg

    Israeli Duty to Warn? What unmitigated gall (chutzpah)

    There are some lessons from history worth heeding. If WW II was going to end and not just end in another quasi-Armistice like WW I, Dresden and Hiroshima were necessary. War is hell. There is no doubt about that. Children who just yesterday seemed to be playing in the tire swing on the front...
  20. jbg

    Israeli Duty to Warn? What unmitigated gall (chutzpah)

    Do you think just insulting a statement makes a point?
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