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Obsequies for Dennis Delcau
Obsequies for Dennis Delcau Rabbi Mitchell Delcau’s father died. I went to the funeral this morning. Mitchell Delcau is our temple’s former rabbi, now based in Seattle. He was someone I had once worked hard to find, serving on the … Continue reading →
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Tagged ambivalence, anti-semitism, bad companions, bereavement, cemetery vandalism, congregants, Dennis Delcau, diaspora, draft deferment, excuses, filial piety, flag-draped coffin, funeral home, funerals, grief, Holocaust survivor, homage to one's country, honesty, honor, humiliation, importance of Israel, Jewish army, Jewish observance, job loss, Judaica, lying, Maimonides, memorials, openness, patriotic homage, patriotism, prejudice, Rabbi Mitchell Delcau, rabbinate, rabbis, reality of God, reunion, search committee, Seattle, simplicity, social awkwardness, Star of David, temple officials, the unrighteous, truthfulness, Vietnam War, vulnerability, Why Israel, widow, work ethic
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The Case of Patricia Hearst
The Case of Patricia Hearst Usually, when I write the weekly column for “Dear Abbie,” I’m in a reasonably upbeat state of mind, but I’m moved to write this one by anger and indignation. My outrage is prompted by Dana … Continue reading →
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Tagged activism, activists, assaults on self, bank robbery, Berkeley CA, betrayal, betrayal of comrades, blaming the victim, brainwashing, breaking the spirit, can't make an omelete, Citizen Kane, class enemy, class hatred, class privilege, coerced confession, coercive persuasion, commuted sentence, courtroom testimony, cults, Dana Spiotta, dignity, empathy, enemy of the people, envy, feminist writers group, feminists, Field Marshall Cinque, guerrilla group, hating the rich, hostage, human freedom, humiliation, identity, Jeffrey Toobin's American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst, kidnapping, life's lottery, limits of freedom, loss of identity, Loyalty, Marcus Foster, Mind Control, Native Americans, newspaper baron, nom de guerre, omelette, Orson Wells, Patty Hearst, Patty Hearst syndrome, pride, prison sentence, privilege, ransom, rape, rape as political, revolutionaries, revolutionary law breaking, revolutionary solidarity, ridicule, robberies, Robert Jay Lifton's Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China, ruling class, sado-masochistic fantasies, self as social construct, self-respect, Shana Alexander, Shana Alexander's Anyone's Daughter: The Times and Trials of Patricia Hearst, Sigmund Freud, SLA, socialization, Spanish Inquisition, Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, Symbionese Liberation Army, testimony, testimony under oath, The New York Times Book Review, Times Op Ed, torture, urban guerrillas, vulnerability, W. H. Auden, W.H. Auden's In Memory of W B Yeats, What does woman want?, William Randolph Hearst, witness, womanly sympathy
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“Broken Pieces”
“Broken Pieces” I’ve never read Kafka and don’t want to, because I prefer happy endings. Elizabeth Bennett should marry Mr. Darcy, Peter Pan should never have to grow up, and … you get the idea. The whole notion that real … Continue reading →
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Tagged airline security, background check, brokenness, bureaucracy, chosen people, clues in a narrative, covenantal history, dehumanization, despair, Dierdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Equality, dignity, Divine warnings, double-binds, economic theory, Elizabeth Bennett, emancipation of the Jews, feeling suicidal, fingerprints, Franz Kafka, God's promises, happy endings, harmful radiation, humiliation, ideal wholeness, inventions, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Jewish historiography, Jewish history, Kafkaesque, liberty, liberty and dignity, Mr. Darcy, optimism, persistence, pessimism, Post-Modern bricolage, predicaments, preventing terrorism, problem-solving, prosperity, radiation and safety, radiation treatment, rushing to judgement, secularism, sexual molestation, suicide, suicide prevention, terrorism, The Covenant, tragic-comedy, TSA, TSA precheck, Woody Allen
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“Reality and Unreality”
“Reality and Unreality” Reality or unreality – does it matter? As I sometimes mention here, Léo Bronstein was my father’s best friend and a kind of godfather to me. One of the many things he did for me – for … Continue reading →
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Tagged acupuncture, anomalies, Bellevue Hospital, childhood trauma, circus, clues, Communists, communists in the closet, decoding, delusion, detective story, detective work, discernment, dumbwaiter, eavesdropping, evidence, family, fathers, freak show, freaks, friendship, Holocaust memories, Holocaust rescue, humiliation, illusion, Léo Bronstein's Fragments of Life Metaphysics and Art, Leo Bronstein, madness, mentorship, metaphysics, midgets, musicians, mystery, New York City, New York cops, normality, past lives, paterfamilias, patriarchs, Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness, proof of insanity, reality, reality checks, refuting instance, relevant facts, Richard Firnhaber acupuncture, Russian soul, seduction, seductive genius, sensitivity, society, STD treatment, The Underground, theatrical, tragedy, unreality, Upper Bohemia, venereal disease, vulnerability
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“Keeping Promises”
“Keeping Promises” As a little girl, one of my vivid memories of being caught in the wrong belongs to the gift a camp counselor once gave me. This gift-giving happened the last day of the season of the Day Camp … Continue reading →
Posted in Alienation, Art, Chivalry, Courtship, Desire, Erotic Life, Faith, Guilt and Innocence, Male Power, Memoir, Psychology, relationships, Social Conventions, The Problematic of Woman
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Tagged admonition, Australia, broken promises, childhood, chivalric vow, disobedience, Down Under, embarrasment, engagement, gallantry, gifts, guilt, humiliation, hypocrisy, medieval tapestry, Metropolitan Museum, New York, one-upmanship, power games, promises, reproach, Romance, stages of life, summer camp, the gift
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“Seizing the Narrative”
“Seizing the Narrative” Long ago, I waited in New York City for a promised letter from Paris that never came. My first love, not a good correspondent, nor a good keeper of promises, was a communist. Not a party member, … Continue reading →
Posted in Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Femininity, history of ideas, Ideology, life and death struggle, Male Power, Memoir, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, Race, Sexuality, Social Conventions, The Problematic of Woman
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Tagged Abul Ala Mawdudi, Andre Philip, bourgeois, British Pakistanis, communism, Critique de la raison dialectique, Deborah Baker, delusions, Fidelista, humiliation, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, Maajid Nawaz, Margaret Marcus, martyrdom, Maryam Jameelah, middle-class milieu, Muslim, narrative, New Left, psyche, psychoanalysis, racism, radical, Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist Extremism, Sartre, sexual self-respect, skinheads, social gauntlets, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, theory of history, therapy, utopian, virginity, world history
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