A version of this letter was originally sent to Community Board 8 and the Croton Filtration Plant Monitoring Committee, with photographic evidence attached. In my daily travels around the … more

New York state has a specialized kangaroo court, a boutique court, that purports to assist families, but for the litigant on the other side of this equation — the litigant who fights for … more

In George Bernard Shaw’s war comedy, Arms and the Man, a Swiss mercenary bursts through the heroine’s window, claiming that his life is threatened unless she hides him. She complies, … more

Everybody knows the old joke summarizing the stories behind Jewish holidays: “They tried to kill us, they didn’t succeed, let’s eat!” But for more than a year — … more