Archive - Alte

A Few More Billionaires, Please

San Francisco needs more billionaires, men and women of wealth who will work for everyone else.

Nov 4 •

I just made (another) small donation to Toni’s Kitchen, my local food pantry, or it was when I still lived in Montclair, NJ.

Nov 1 •

Jessica de Koninck

October 2025

by Susan Beth Schneider

Oct 28

A Stubborn Fidelity

Guest Column by Mitch Abidor

Oct 25

Blood and Kindness

Oct 23

Falling on My Face

or the end to exceptionalism

Oct 22

Arthur Waskow, Activist Soul Man

A personal reflection after hearing that he died this morning, age 92

Oct 21 •

Afghan Women in Kabul

and Jack and Betsy

Oct 18 •

Afghan Women in Kabul

and Jack and Betsy

Oct 18 •

Sitting in a Wheelchair at the Kol Nidre Service

I didn’t regularly attend services, even when I moved from New Jersey to California ten years ago and joined a reformed Temple that I like.

Oct 15 •

An Appreciation

Oct 13

Don’t Mess with Texas

I spent the last week in Texas, the State with a Governor who is meaner than the sitting President, the State with medieval, the Middle Ages might…

Oct 12 •

Jessica de Koninck

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