When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying … —Exodus 13:14 The Bible envisions different questions, apparently posed by different sons, all to the same effect: why do we Jews do this, that, or the other thing? From the character of the question, one infers the character of the … [Read more...]
Passover Seder – How Different Is This Night …
It’s Passover time again. Which means it’s time, if you’re Jewish and observe the traditions, for that archaic, baffling, weirdly compelling ceremony called the Seder. For those who don’t know the terminology: the Seder is the ritual meal for Passover eve, performed the first evening of Passover … [Read more...]
Gore Vidal and the UFOs
“Stars fell to earth in a blaze of light, and where they fell, monsters were born, hideous and blind.” —Gore Vidal, Messiah Did Gore Vidal believe in UFOs? That was the question I asked myself, with some excitement, as a teen-age “UFO investigator” reading Vidal’s 1954 novel Messiah. This … [Read more...]
Lindbergh, UFOs, and the Jews
In July 1959, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh paid a visit to the aged Carl Jung in his home in Bollingen, Switzerland. Lindbergh and Jung talked about—what else?—UFOs. This I learn from A. Scott Berg’s 1998 biography of Lindbergh, which my old friend in UFOlogy Jerry Clark has called to my … [Read more...]
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