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Octogenarian

http://octogenarian.blogspot.com

Commentaries on current events; memoirs of a retired journalist, World War II veteran, and first-generation American

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  • To the loyal readers of Octogenarian

    Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 17:00

    This is being written by Mort's wife...About 10 days ago Mort was severely injured while driving his car out of his garage.He's had two back surgeries and has not regained mobility in one of his legs.It will take months of rehab before he's back writ...

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer vs. Marc Chagall

    Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 15:46 in art, monet, cezanne, shtetl

    Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel laureate in literature who wrote in Yiddish, is my favorite author. In 1975, taking a break from my regular work as a journalist who specialized in business, I wrote profiles about him that were published in the New Y...

  • Jimmy Carter: Enemy of peace

    Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 15:31 in palestinians, israelis, peace activists, yemini

    I don't normally publish material written by others on this blog. I am making an exception here to publicize this article by Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini, which exposes ex-President Jimmy Carter as a phony "peace activist." As an accomplished I...

  • The unwinnable war in Afghanistan

    Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 20:15 in iraq, pakistan, taliban, al-qaeda

    I rarely agree with Pat Buchanan, the right-wing pundit and onetime Presidential candidate, on anything. But there is one issue on which we do agree: the war in Afghanistan. In a recent column, Buchanan described the war as "unwinnable" and called fo...

  • My love affair with the Yiddish language

    Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 14:40 in sephardim, hasidim, ashkenazim, mizrahim

    I can no longer speak the language in which, according to my parents, I uttered my first words as a small child. The language is Yiddish, the native tongue of East European Jews.Although I can no longer speak Yiddish, largely because of disuse, I can...

  • The tormented Robert McNamara

    Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 16:48 in pentagon, ford motor co., vietnam war, repentant

    My local newspaper recently carried an editorial cartoon showing Robert McNamara, the controversial former Secretary of Defense who died on July 6, standing in front of St. Peter in heaven."There are 58,000 soldiers in here who'd like to have a word ...

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