THE AENEID: FIRST PART

Recent movie news about the latest screen adaptation of The Odyssey happened to make me reflect on the lack of a big screen version of the poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid. For newbies to the tale, I’m posting this very brief synopsis of the story – the first half a mythic voyage like Jason and […]

THE FALL OF NEW YORK DANIELLE SHAPIRO MANN

The Fall of New York The city that once promised safe harbor has become the place where Jews are hunted in print and on the street. I grew up right over the George Washington Bridge. Minutes from Manhattan. New York was the promised land where many of our grandparents, who fled Europe with nothing, found […]