Embracing Our Inner Reverend Wright

By David • April 15, 2008

This is a post I wrote on True Ancestor, and modified for (what I think is) an interesting zine, the New Vilna Review.

Comments welcome, as long as they’re made in the spirit of civil discourse (right, Avi?).

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David

David was born and raised with a vague understanding that, as a Jew, he was the proud inheritor of a dead spiritual tradition. The synagogue (Reform) was the forlorn museum of that tradition. He didn’t mind supporting the museum, but being forced to attend school in it every Sunday seemed, in childhood, to be harsh punishment for a circumstance of birth. Read More

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