Last year, I published an essay on MyJewishLearning.com called “Seize the Day School.” I worried about this essay. “Seize” spelled out, in great detail, my own ambivalences — note the plural — about sending my daughter to Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston. I feared that once the piece was published, her teachers might treat my little girl…differently; that the school moms would stop smiling at me and my wife; that our tuition bill would start growing exponentially.Read More
Once upon a time, David Mamet picked up Abraham Cahan’s “The Imported Bridegroom,” and in the course of perusing the book, he later wrote, “I discovered in myself the racial type of the lapsed Talmudist.” The first time I read of Mamet’s discovery, in the preface to the playwright’s “Writing in Restaurants,” I cheered. I wanted to be a lapsed Talmudist, too. Not that I really knew from Talmudists (I know Talmud the way Bart Simpson knows of long division), and I was uncomfortable with Mamet’s “racial” talk, but his “lapsed Talmudist” sounded considerably better than “ignorant secular Jew” or amorets, as they say in the mameloshn.Read More
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