Michael L. Millenson
By Michael L. Millenson
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Opinion I ran for my life from the Highland Park shooting. It will haunt me forever.
The first July 4 parade since 2019 promised a return to normalcy. Instead, it began a surreal, traumatizing ordeal.
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Opinion We Need a New Jewish Ritual for the Terminally Ill
We live in a time when dying increasingly plays out in stages. More and more of those who fall seriously ill have, if not an exact schedule of life’s end, at least a realistic timeline. So it was with a friend of mine who’d been diagnosed with an unusual type of brain tumor in her…
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Culture How ‘Downton Abbey’ Plundered the Story of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Lord Grantham is Tevye the Milkman. As the trials and tribulations marking the third season of BBC’s “Downton Abbey” came to a close, the realization hit me: Julian Fellowes has created a WASP version of “Fiddler on the Roof.” Despite obvious differences, the fundamental premise is identical: how a proud man with three daughters copes…
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