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war against fascism aptly enough tag another 83 year old trace back to his birth talk about ironies in 1860 the brink of our epic civil war fought to extinguish slavery the devil s bargain hard wired into our constitution to draw slave holding southern states into a risky new national enterprise one more lifetime 84 years puts us back to the signing of the declaration of independence an empire shattering document that echoed around the world and down to this day with its still stirring assertion we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that is only the second sentence the founders hadn t yet gotten to the point we ve become obsessed with the second paragraph said eric slauter the university of chicago professor who curated an exhibit on our nation s foundational document at the newberry library standing before an enormous blow up what we know is most contemporary readers glossed over that they cared a lot about the charges against the king this is an indictment the real meat of the declaration what made it a declaration of independence and not a declaration of rights was this part you can tell it was important because it s in capital letters the part toward the bottom declaring in all caps that the now former colonies are free and independent states to continue reading click here posted by neil steinberg at 12 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 2 2026 flashback 2009 fortified by faith in a foreign land one way jews are reacting to rising antisemitism is by manifesting their jewishness in public more to show they re not afraid not an issue for me i ve never been afraid to write about my religion and may be the only daily newspaper columnist in the country who regularly explores judaism of course some days it feels like i m pretty much the only daily newspaper columnist in the country period so that might not be saying much though even i m trying to stand a little taller lately i recently flagged down a pair of cheder boys and put on tefillin in the parking lot of sunset foods which is not my style extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures anyway i was looking through the vault for fourth of july columns and found this while many a sailor finds religion crossing the stormy seas my faith tends to tap me on the shoulder while i m safe in foreign ports when i travel i find myself visiting synagogues perhaps faith is too strong a term maybe it is mere curiosity but i ve been to temples from bridgetown to vilnius attended services from charleston to taipei oddly i never intend to go it seems to just happen last saturday morning i was checking the map to go shopping at harrods and noticed that the western marble arch synagogue was a few blocks from my hotel services were just beginning harrods could wait on went the dark suit and i walked over worried about being 45 minutes late i have to ask you a few questions said a man security standing at the synagogue door what is your hebrew name yitzhak ben rachkmiel ben schmuel i said and he waved me in i entered thinking it was sad that this is necessary but not too sad police with machine guns guarded the synagogue i went to in rome and worshippers had to pass through a narrow l shaped security airlock designed to thwart bombers inside a man held me back until the prayer ended whoever you are he said wherever you are from welcome the sanctuary was large rectangular the traditional set up with the ark holding the torah scrolls at one end and a raised platform where the service is conducted the bimah in the middle i almost made a beeline for an empty part of the room and there were many the place was sparsely populated but that seemed to defeat the purpose of coming so i forced myself to take a seat among the knot of men sitting in the center and it was all men women i counted three were exiled to the balcony above marble arch whose congregation traces its roots to 1761 comfortably seats 1 000 worshippers i counted 27 men at prayer most were older their hair gray or white maybe three men were under 50 rigorous attention to the services seemed optional the men occasionally stood up strolled around visiting with each other shaking hands talking laughing at times it seemed like a tableau from a rembrandt painting these older gentlemen in their capacious wool prayer shawls leaning over pews whispering to one another more congregants walked over and shook my hand during the first hour at marble arch than in my sporadic attendance at various synagogues around chicago over the past 25 years i was jotting in my notebook until someone stopped me we re orthodox he said it isn t done just a few notes i pleaded to help me remember god will help you remember he replied i put the notebook away all religions are melting under the bright light of modern society but judaism is melting quicker as it was so small to begin with and faces besides assimilation the added challenge of enemies periodically trying to kill us there are roughly 13 million jews in the world today a sum equal to the population of zambia nowhere near the number in 1939 17 million and since our population growth hovers at zero we may never get back to where we once were that is the grim view but one of the benefits of religion is it can cast a positive spin on grim reality about 10 30 a m a small boy in a white yarmulke and linen shirt came charging across the sanctuary running full speed fringes flying exuberant there was a change in the room the boy was like a rocket announcing the start of a festival suddenly more people began arriving it turned out that at marble arch synagogue 45 minutes late is early and by 11 a m another 50 people had arrived howard richenberg the warden of the synagogue announced the birth of a granddaughter hadar to the rabbi lionel rosenfeld and the men on the bimah began an impromptu dance of celebration holding hands arms raised high after that i slipped over to richenberg to check the new arrival s name and he wondered if i wished to participate in the service would you have objections to saying a prayer for the royal family he asked you do speak english i said that yes i speak english and no i would have no objection to asking our distracted god to bless the british royal family a few minutes later i was gestured to come up may the supreme king of kings in his mercy preserve the queen in life guard her and deliver her from all trouble and sorrow i read slightly startled to find myself addressing a congregation in london the men of marble arch synagogue seemed to get a kick out of that a big joke to get the american to bless the queen while we in this country have gotten past the whole revolutionary war unpleasantness it stings here apparently i still have trouble being in the united states on the fourth of july one man told me when i returned to my seat the service complete we repaired to a small social hall which the group filled nicely and went at a spread of gefilte fish herring and other masterworks of our faith i stayed a while eating talking and left much more confident than i had been mid service yes the demographic slide is a true worry but when did the jews not face worries originally published in the sun times october 4 2009 posted by neil steinberg at 12 00 am 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 1 2026 ringing liberty out of a cracked bell you re familiar with the liberty bell right big bell with a crack in it on display in philadelphia long associated with the american revolution though there s no evidence it was rung at any significant event one of those confused quirks of history like george washington s mythic chopping down a cherry tree do you know what s written on the liberty bell i won t keep you in suspense proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof a line from leviticus 25 a passage that in some ways is about farming every seventh year is to be a sabbath the land will not be planted but lie fallow a smart agricultural practice essential before advanced fertilizers and every seventh sabbath 7 x 7 the 50th year would be a jubilee what was a jubilee big party lots of back patting maybe the hebrew word for jubilee yovel means ram s horn or trumpet the way news was blasted across the desert a cue taken in english jubilee is from the latin jubilo or shout of joy that s where we get jubilation they weren t shouting general self praise nor self assigned greatness but about something real something big the jubilee year was sort of a societal reset when all debts would be forgiven slaves freed seized lands returned a fresh start for those downtrodden by life it was about humbling the mighty not building them up further do not take advantage of each other leviticus urges not quite i feel comfortable saying the spirit we find afoot in the land today during our american quintuple jubilee the 250th anniversary of a country conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal no need to spell it out either you understood long ago or you never will to continue reading click here posted by neil steinberg at 12 00 am 22 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 30 2026 evanescent years ago i went to an impressive production of the elephant man at the theatre building on belmont avenue in a big top setting with sawdust on the floor one line particularly moved me carried on a card by one of the circus girls who came out between acts art is nothing as to nature that said art can still enhance nature whether it is hanging enormous chihuly glassworks at the garfield park conservatory in 2001 or as the chicago botanic garden did for its 50th anniversary inviting artists to create site specific works such as patrick dougherty s rookery which was so marvelous they kept it for a second year this year features giant bubbles or to be more precise evanescent by atelier sisu a sydney based art and design studio founded by peruvian sculptor renzo b larriviere and australian spatial architect zara pasfield it was installed june 6 the rainbow spheres were not created particularly for the botanic garden but have been seen in 22 cities across 12 countries from auckland new zealand to toronto canada they fit in nicely of course we go to the garden a lot and while we say that it is different every time we visit with the giant orbs it s really different or as the great irish writer brendan behan once said a change is as good as a rest the word evanescent as you may know means according to my oed that which quickly vanishes or passes away having no permanence in this case the show is up until sept 20 which will be here quickly enough as summer fleets too posted by neil steinberg at 12 00 am 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 29 2026 technology gives women upper hand in abortion battle technology is a friend to women oh it helps men too with its laser levels and helix 5 fishfinders but society places particular burdens on women through the constraints of religion and marriage the treadmill of family obligation technology levels the field a bit with its way of swinging open the cage door advances we think of as benign today like the bicycle were revolutionary for women when introduced allowing them a path out of the house unchaperoned mobility and a reason to wear pants all in one fell swoop particularly medical technology for centuries the prospect of pregnancy went arm in arm with the harangues of moralists until chicago s own g d searle released enovid the first birth control pill in 1960 and suddenly women could do what they want instead of what they re told spoiler alert they wanted to have sex without worrying about babies there s an entrancing book on the subject the birth of the pill how four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution by my pal jonathan eig he gives a great early history of the battle to wrest control over women s bodies from pious men spotlighting margaret sanger who popularized the term birth control and opened the first clinic in 1916 later shut down by police since even a pamphlet describing contraception was considered obscene and illegal to send through the united states mail we are steadily sliding back toward those days moralists have hitched their wagon to would be totalitarians with restricting the right of a woman to control her own body and the babies hereby saved being the central plum used to rationalize depriving everybody male and female of all sorts of other basic rights such as the ability to cast a ballot unhindered four years ago the trump packed supreme court reversed roe v wade the 1973 ruling that made abortion legal throughout this country thirteen states promptly banned it even in cases of rape or incest the same religious zealots in a lather because a 12 year old might check out judy blume s forever from the public library would force her to have a baby and what was the result of banning abortion for 40 of american women the practice is way up 21 since 2020 because of our old friend medical technology in the form of the ru 486 a two drug regimen that is safe effective and can be sent through the mail you would think this failure might humble those hot to impose their religion upon others which is what banning abortion is the enforcement of christian morality through law but nothing humbles them and now some on the anti abortion crowd are considering this exciting next step charging women who have abortions with murder this hasn t yet been done for two reasons first because the whole killing babies bit is just a religious construct like santa claus rhetoric used because it works so effectively the tell the giveaway is that while doctors can be prosecuted for performing abortions and friends for driving the women to clinics the actual murderess herself putting this supposed crime in motion is generally left alone to continue reading click here posted by neil steinberg at 12 00 am 38 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday june 28 2026 flashback 1999 we need some cartoonists who can draw straight t he gay pride parade is today which is a relief normally there is quite a bit of advance hoopla and this year was so quiet i began to worry the lbgtq crowd had gone to ground hunkering down to ride out the grim no end in sight night of rights shredding oppression inflicted upon the united states by our republican friends as the above paragraph pretty well sums up my thinking on the topic rather than grind something out on a beautiful saturday that really called for a long walk in the chicago botanical garden followed by an even longer nap i 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