Dialog

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The following article, a biography of the author’s grandfather, was originally published in Conservative Judaism, Volume 35, No. 3, Spring, 1987. Apart from the addition of photographs, it has been left in its original form. My grandfather, Rabbi Max Drob (1887-1959), belonged to the earliest generation of ‘European-born, Americanized graduates of the Jewish Theological Seminary. […]

Several people have recently asked me my thoughts regarding the power of a “red string” that has been wrapped around the tomb of Rachel to ward off the evil eye.  My thoughts on this topic involve a meditation on the views of certain Kabbalists that “faith” lies at the foundation of our world (Azriel) and that the world […]

The soul-searching on the part of the Democratic Party after the 2004 election focused to a significant extent on the question of “values;” specifically why it was that 80% of the electorate for whom values was the primary issue in the election voted Republican. While at the ’04 Democratic National Convention Barack Obama’s declaration that “we worship an awesome God in the […]

It is now nearly two weeks after the tragic event that has completely rewritten the meaning of being a New Yorker and an American. Not only has there been a hitherto unfathomable destruction of human life and property, but there has also occurred what in Kabbalistic terms can only be described as an eruption of […]