Hurricane Sandy was the storm that changed the beach. I remember sitting under the boardwalk. How it took a long time to reach the shore. Today at Coney Island, the sea has wiped the distance away. There is no more shore line. In a few more hurricanes, there will be no beach. Maybe no people. New Yo...

I live on the fourth floor of an over-priced pre-war building one block from the Atlantic Ocean. I love the sea. On Saturday, as I had done almost everyday for the past three months, I went into the ocean at Brighton Beach. Temperature was sixty-three degrees inside and outside on the shore. I gazed...

By Robert Rubenstein The Olympics begins in a few weeks amid the pageantry of spectacle that will have many of us glued to our television set. London seems to be a wonderful place to hold this event. For Jews, though, the Olympics are a place in which bad things have happened. We cannot celebrate f...

Honest to a fault, i thought, My little pension was carrying me through, and I NEVER stole a dime, I swear, but now I  feel I may be involved in something very weird. About seven days ago, my pension check came into my Chase account as it usually does at the end of the month through ACH. Along with...

In the aftermath of a painful truth about the death of an American boy on an American shore, I taught my racial psychology class, and the irony did not escape us last night. It is in the pre-holiday spirit where  the teacher does not want to teach; the students do not want to learn. Early dismissal ...