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On a recent visit to Chicago, Melissa and I stumbled into an off-the-beaten-track tour of what’s referred to as the Pedway, an unplanned but completely ingenious underground ribbon of tangled corridors⦠Read More
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On a recent visit to Chicago, Melissa and I stumbled into an off-the-beaten-track tour of what’s referred to as the Pedway, an unplanned but completely ingenious underground ribbon of tangled corridors⦠Read More
In July 1986, NYPD officer Steven McDonald while on patrol in Central Park was shot repeatedly at point-blank range by a teenager in broad daylight. He survived the attack but⦠Read More
For more than twelve years, I provided commentary on WCBS NewsRadio on topics under the banner of “Simple Truths: on Values, Civility and Our Common Good,” eventually collected into a⦠Read More
If you were to ask Melissa—to whom I’ve now been married for 40 years—she would tell you that I have a pathetic inability to find things around the apartment. In⦠Read More
Many years ago when my kids were still in school, I attended a softball game in which my daughter was playing second base. I’m thinking she must have been in⦠Read More
In a recent opinion piece, award-winning science fiction writer, Liu Cixin, considers the break-neck advance of robotic artificial intelligence and its impact on our society. While he doesn’t paint an ostentatiously⦠Read More
The time between the last week of November and the first week of January is profoundly paradoxical. On the one hand, it frames various western religious and civic festivals, which⦠Read More
In an article in today’s Wall Street Journal, my friend Peter Rubinstein, former Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue and now Director of Jewish Community and the Bronfman Center for Jewish⦠Read More
It’s a beautiful morning as a write, and I’m grateful for that, but is it my imagination, or does the world seem different than it did a few days ago? ⦠Read More
When I was coming onboard with my professional life, an emerging national consensus was building around the educational value of character formation. Lots of educators, sociologists, civic leaders and clergy-types,⦠Read More