A Kaddish for Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) on his seventeenth Yahrtzeit. I had to work the “Pink Panther” theme into it, didn’t I?
daily kaddish: for Oscar Grant, on the day of Johannes Mehserle’s release
A kaddish for Oscar Grant, on the day of his killer’s release from jail after serving a single year.
my father’s favorite boys speak up
Did the tzaddik walk into a bar? Did he drink a beer? Did he watch the World Series on that day? So. The answer appears to be (I’ll cut to the chase) — no, he did not. The whole tzaddik walks into a bar story that I told, turns out to be almost completely off….
daily kaddish: for sadness of houses
Houses seem to have a sadness of their own when things are not right with their inhabitants. This is a Kaddish for the sadnesses of houses.
bonus kaddish: for chuck stine, from the blooper reel
This is from the blooper reel of Mira’s and my attempt to make a Kaddish for Chuck Stine on his Yahrtzeit.
daily kaddish: for chuck stine
Tonight’s Kaddish is for Chuck Stine, my friend Sharon Jacobson Stine’s husband, on his Yahrtzeit.
daily kaddish: for oscar, tim’s wiener dog
Tonight’s Kaddish is for my high school friend Tim’s beloved dog, Oscar, a wiener dog who is gone after only four years being a light in Tim’s life.
daily kaddish: for A.D. Gordon on his birthday
A kaddish for A.D. Gordon z”l on his birthday.
daily kaddish: for jack kevorkian, md
Last Friday, Dr Jack Kevorkian died at age 83 of natural causes.
the religion of labor: remembering a.d. gordon
I can’t seem to let A.D. Gordon go. And yet his is not an ideology that almost anyone seems to care about these days. Isn’t the modern task to seek more leisure and relegate labor to lesser beings — transient workers, illegal immigrants, cheap Arab labor, robots if you’ve got ’em? Aharon David Gordon was…