Tag Archives: 2000s

The People of the…

Posted on 2009/09/06 by davka

We have been called a Peo­ple of the Book for near­ly 1400 years. We did not invent the term. It was giv­en to us (as well as to Chris­tians) by our cousins the Mus­lims. Nonethe­less, even as our tech­nolo­gies move us … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Neapolitan

Posted on 2009/07/08 by davka

Over the years I have been asked: What kind of a rab­bi are you? To which I answer with­out hes­i­ta­tion: A good rab­bi! And then my inter­locu­tor stam­mers a bit and says: No, no, what… oh, ah…. Are you…? At which point I gen­tly inter­rupt and say: Neapolitan

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