Human Interest
5 min read
You know the moment. Someone asks you to take on "just one more thing" and even though you're already overloaded, you can't say no. A friend suggests plans you don't want and you go along because you don't want to seem difficult. You apologize for something that wasn't your fault because keeping the peace feels […]
Human Interest
7 min read
In 1965, Homer and Melva lived next door to us on Hampton Boulevard, in the naval town of Norfolk. Homer and Dad went way back. They’d been in the same fraternity at William & Mary, played college pranks together, and were as close as two men could be. I don’t know if it was a […]
Life has been good to me. Surgeon, teacher, researcher, entrepreneur, writer. I've travelled, built things, met extraordinary people. But my good years were punctuated by something darker: antisemitism. Not the caricatured kind from history books or neo-Nazi marches. The quieter sort, bubbling beneath civilized surfaces. At school gates, on public transport, in professional settings, and […]
When my twin brother Ephraim became religious at age 17, I decided I needed to go rescue him. We had both finished high school and gone to Israel to spend three months on kibbutz, picking fruit and having fun. He was going to move on from there to be a counselor on a Young Judea […]
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The Book of Ruth resolves the conflicted feelings of gratitude and resentment.
