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Hey readers, or skimmers, if you are anywhere even vaguely near Montclair, New Jersey, next Saturday night, February 25, come see Peter Odabashian’s brilliant and highly entertaining film, My 2020. Come even if you saw it in Rosendale or in Manhattan, and definitely come if you have not seen it before. It’s terrific. 7:00 p.m.at Bnai Keshet, 99 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair. Admission is free. There will be a wine and cheese reception. And Peter will be there to answer questions and to talk about the movie. Check out the trailer https://www.pjofilms.com/gallery.
Full disclosure, Bnai Keshet is my home synagogue, and I would really like to show how we ALTE’s can fill a room. Plus, there’s a whole bunch of you I have not seen since before the pandemic and many more of you I’ve never met. There’s even parking. Come to the movie.
In non-news, I am not going to watch the Superbowl this evening, or the ads or the halftime show. I don’t get network television here anymore. (I did have to explain the term “network television” to my adult child. “Cable, cable,” I explained. But even it if I did, I would not be watching. I don’t like football. It’s violent, and I just don’t like it. That said, I have a child who lives in Philly. Everyone in Philly is Eagles crazy. I offer as proof that on Friday night at the end of services at my daughter’s synagogue in the Philly suburbs, where I had gone to watch my granddaughter’s Hebrew school class lead some of the prayers, the congregation sang a rousing rendition of “Fly Eagles Fly,” a song that was new to me, in Hebrew. Would life only be so blissfully innocent?
I answer, “No” to my own question having spent the morning watching the funeral, via live stream, of a friend from law school. So many people in my life now live only in my memory. And I try not to think about Turkey or Syria or all the terrible things, and I write small checks.
So, come see Peter’s movie, because life is short, and we do not get close to enough time to spend with friends. It’s a gift we can give ourselves. See you next Saturday.