Movie Review: 1946 – A Wonderful Life
I finally watched another classic an frequently referenced movies, my daughter and I are up to the 1940s. First, why is it that so many movies of this era have some sort of cop...
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Movie Review: 1941 – Citizen Kane
Continuing the old movie ‘research’ with my daughter, we just completed Citizen Kane – it’s a movie about Donald Trump only more accurate to real life where having affairs and feeding the media with...
Movie Review: 1936 – Modern Times, Charley Chaplain
Having read some history about Charlie Chaplain though only seeing a Charlie Chaplain movie for the first time now, the theme of this movie seems quite related to his life – growing up dirt...
Movie Review: 1939 – Gone with the Wind
It’s been a while between my last old movie review and my latest – Gone with the Wind, 1939. There’s a good reason for this – the movie is a bit of beast. It’s...
Movie Review: 1925 – Phantom of the Opera
Today’s old movie review – Phantom of the Opera, 1925. It’s a silent horror film which is surprisingly watchable and actually scary at times with very ominous music, great make-up, and well a faster...
Movie Review: 1916 – Intolerance
Classic movie reviews for today – my daughter and I, during all this home time, have started watching movies from the 1910s forward: 1916 – Intolerance: This movie is a reaction to Griffith’s 1915...
Rosh HaNikra Grottoes and Nahariya
Some Intro to the Northwest Corner of Israel This trip takes you to the northern most Mediterranean coast of Israel to the Grottoes (a fancy word for ‘cave’) at Rosh HaNikra (meaning ‘head of...
Life at 40: Musings on Turning 40
To celebrate my 40th birthday, I went down a belt buckle and joined a gym for the first time in my life. Not bad. Then I started jotting down some thoughts about the hard-won...
Discomfort: Jewish Holidays in a Nutshell
Judaism is about discomfort. What do I mean by that? I mean we want to avoid it’s opposite – no, not “comfort” but “complacency.” The English language sometimes trips us up as words that...
Kosher Vacation in Dominican Republic – Revisited
Introduction In 2015 we went to Peurto Plata, Dominican Republic where there is a full time Rabbi supervising two kosher kitchens (dairy and meat) on a resort filled with beaches and pools. In 2019...