Like so many American Jews, the images that played through my news and social media feeds yesterday were both sobering and disturbing. On the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Yom Kippur war–on a Shabbat, on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah–we saw the news of Hamas’ attack on Israel. As of this writing, … Read more
NOTE: This post is running concurrently today on our sister site, WWW.LEBLANGUAGE.NET. Please visit it for daily updates on media, politics and life. You’d be hard pressed not to find someone not in a reflective mood today. 9/11 has brought out those kinds of emotions now for 22 years, which means that this year’s college … Read more
On a day that was fraught with emotion for me on many levels, to top it all off, I had to see headline after headline about yet another so-called “nice guy” being publicly exposed for being far less nice in private than he was in public. As DECIDER’s Greta Bjornson reported: Jimmy Fallon has been accused … Read more
TO: KAMALA HARRIS, VICE PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FR: STEVE LEBLANG, MEDIA CONSULTANT RE: A CRISIS IN YOUR HOMETOWN Dear Madame Vice President: Forgive if you can my boldness and directness, but considering a day doesn’t go by when you or one of your colleagues sends me several e-mails asking for my money to … Read more
I’m hardly an expert on the current or even the historic state of equal rights, but I have been around enough to know how important and impactful an action that took place 60 years ago today was. As THE GUARDIAN’s David Smith recalled: The original March on Washington took place on 28 August 1963, a hundred years … Read more
Did you ever one of THOSE days? You know I’ve had more than my fair share of late. Yesterday was particularly distressing, one that I felt was needing of a primal scream. Ever since I read this piece on the benefits of why screaming for self-care was beneficial, which was offered to me when my … Read more
No less than the ageless and indominatable Norman Lear, currently in the later stages of development for two new streaming services a few weeks past his 101st birthday, gives me the kind of confidence and resilience to continue to soldier on and push like mad for even a day of what used to be for … Read more
Julius Caesar may have advised to beware the Ides of March, but he never said much about the Ides of August. Perhaps he was predisposed to liking it; after all, the month is named after his brother. But unlike the events that befell him on March 15th, plenty of which didn’t quite work out to … Read more
Anyone who has read these musings recently know what today is for me, and how this one has particularly made me feel. I’ll ask that if you missed it, you perhaps click on the link within this site to take you back, for it has a specific and extremely sincere and heartfelt call to action. … Read more
OK, this will not be a musing that will have a lot of snark, or even insight. I made the grievous error of seeing my bank account yesterday, not to mention a few social media posts I would usually avoid, and to say that I’m a more than a little bit freaked out would be … Read more