by Matthew Friedman | Dec 31, 2019 | Essays
I had come to a multiplex in the Boston suburbs on Christmas morning expecting to enjoy a movie alone, or at very least in the company of only a handful of non-Christian refugees from the barrage of Yuletide cheer. I was wrong; the screening room was packed with...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 23, 2019 | Essays
“And now, Matthew will come up and tell us about Chanukah,” Miss Shultz said. “It’s the Jewish Christmas.” I froze in my chair, looking straight ahead at my teacher’s expectant smile. I felt the eyes of my second-grade classmates boring into me. It was one of those...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 13, 2019 | Commentary
Wednesday, December 11 – or 13 Kislev in the Jewish calendar – felt unbearably surreal. I felt as if a waking nightmare had mobilized my darkest terrors as I traveled home, trapped on one delayed flight after another, to sit shiva for a beloved and respected uncle....
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 6, 2019 | Commentary
I got home from work a little earlier than usual that day, but the sun had already set an hour before. The weekly newspaper office where I worked in Pointe St-Charles had closed early, and the Montreal Metro got me home in record time. The details of that early...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 3, 2019 | Commentary, Politics
Candice Keller and Ron Hood had a moment in the media spotlight last week when they introduced Bill 413 in the Ohio House of Representatives. The proposed legislation is one of the most radical anti-abortion bills ever proposed in the United States. It would not only...
