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FREDERIC TUTEN FOUND A NEW JOY
“At this time of my life–someone would say, the winter of my life, although I don’t feel cold,” Frederic Tuten, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and art critic, tells of finding a new joy in painting. “Practically no day passes where I’m not either writing and painting or painting and writing, whichever comes first in…
Read MoreWHY IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS? PASSOVER 2023
Why is this night of Passover,2023, different from all other nights? Because this celebration of the Exodus, a symbol to peoples everywhere—Jews and Christians alike–who’ve won the hard fight for freedom, is being overshadowed in Israel itself by a group of democracy-suppressing, racist, and violent Jews. Because, after centuries of Seders, of praying for return…
Read MoreWATCHING, WASHING, WRAPPING AND TALKING TO THE DEAD
My partner, a very smart and level-headed woman, routinely paid large sums by corporate leaders to help them strategize, recently informed me she had volunteered to spend hours minutely washing an old woman’s corpse in preparation for burial. It is a Jewish ritual called Tahara. After the cleaning, the body was dressed in a white…
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