My Life As A Jew
On seeing The Chosen: "Oh my God what a beautiful film. I know I saw it in my youth but I couldn't appreciate it then as I do now. Robby Benson does an incredible job here, just miraculous. And keeps up with the old lions, Maximilian Schell and Rod Steiger. Such men!!! As actors, and as the parts they played. Unforgettable. The scene of Rod Steiger as the powerful Rebbe dancing at a wedding gave me chills. (Always makes me think of David dancing before the Ark of the Covenant.)" Discipline applied without love is mere punishment and cruelty. And Israel, born with such hope and idealism: I wonder what the early Zionists would think of today's far right #Israel? At that time, there was so much horror in the world, so much carnage, but there was also great optimism and faith and good expectations for the future. Now, there is only the darkness without any light. The experiments are failing, or have failed: the American experiment of democracy and the Israeli e...