Opinion

Opinion

My brother from another planet

Solomon Feuerwerker grew up as an alien. Not “alien” as in “illegal immigrant.” Alien as in from another planet. That planet was Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While many people in Williamsburg lead lives most of us can relate to, Solomon was the youngest of 11 children in an ultra-orthodox Jewish family. The […]

Opinion Sports

Ode to joy

There’s something about high school sports that makes a big moment hard to shake. On Saturday morning, I was sitting in the dugout with some of my men’s baseball teammates in between games and, as we often do, we started talking about some of our best sports memories. We’re not […]

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Hello, it’s Adele…again

Walk into the grocery and there she is. Shop for shoes, she’s shopping by your side. Need to cross a lobby? Drive to Jersey? Drink yourself into a stupor? My God—she’s there, too. In the hotel, the car, the seedy bar’s seedy bathroom, seeping through the pipes. She’s everywhere, always […]