by Dr. Martin Blinder | Sep 22, 2023 | Memoirs
Showtime: The rabbi’s proforma introductory remarks and fundraising pitch completed, I stepped forward, recited my prayers in Hebrew, and for the benefit of my parents and 99.9% of the attendees, repeated them in English. Next came my first public speech ever –...
by Dr. Martin Blinder | Sep 21, 2023 | Memoirs
…..And Jehovah was just getting started. Remember, He’d given Lot, Lot’s wife, and a few other pious townspeople safe passage out of the two heretical, decadent party towns he was apparently planning to nuke. God’s mercy towards these faithful few was...
by Dr. Martin Blinder | Sep 18, 2023 | Memoirs
The Catholics’ Jesus seemed far more flexible. Simply confess to, say, the violence thou had inflicted in self-defense last Friday on thy neighbor after he caught thou in a hotel room engaged in unmentionables with his wife during a champagne lunch catered by...
by Dr. Martin Blinder | Sep 14, 2023 | Memoirs
Stillborn A Unitarian friend once observed that the only occasion he could recall hearing “Jesus Christ” aloud in his church was the time the custodian tripped and fell down the stairs. Yet set alongside my family, even the least pious of Unitarians would come...
by Dr. Martin Blinder | Sep 11, 2023 | Memoirs
Part 1 Elementary Public School 91 In the space of less than two hours the Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, that abruptly forced us into the Second World War destroyed the greater part of the United States’ Pacific fleet along with...
