Author Archive for Tom
Bela & The Benz — Tom Teicholz
To imagine where their lives played out across centuries, to walk down those streets, to see buildings and synagogues and to be able to say my family walked these streets, my family members lived here, they were married in this place and buried here, it gives one a feeling that is larger than one’s self — a connection between present and past, a feeling of history.
Post-Zionism in a diaspora world. Tom Teicholz
In Israel itself, 60 years of existential peril have created a sense of living in the moment — currently there is a surprising sense of well-being among certain strata of the Israeli population that comes from focusing on family, on work and on materialistic concerns divorced from national and political concerns. When you live in the moment, you can live anywhere:
Duttons Bookstore is closing in LA - Where is a book-loving soul to go now? Tom Teicholz
In a world where the bookstore is less and less viable . . . where will we find knowledgeable guides to help us find what we are looking for or make suggestions? Where can we go to see our literary idols?