Yom Kippur

To those who will, shortly, be observing: best wishes for Yom Kippur...

After five episodes...

Five installments of the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War have now aired; there are five episodes still to come. It is, simply, a remarkable, and riveting program--deeply informative, and deeply emotional to watch.

Rosh Hashanah

A holiday recipe from Joan Nathan, in The New York Times...

Rosh Hashanah begins this evening...Good wishes for the New Year...

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/7199-my-favorite-challah

Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur

From the "Ask the Rabbis" feature in the Jewish-oriented magazine Moment (September/October issue):  "What Is the Most Important High Holidays Prayer?"

http://www.momentmag.com/ask-rabbis-important-high-holidays-prayer/?utm

Ken Burns/Lynn Novick, "The Vietnam War"

Another superb installment, tonight (Tuesday), of the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary about Vietnam, on PBS

"The Vietnam War," PBS, continued

The first two episodes of The Vietnam War, the documentary directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and airing on PBS, were excellent, and compelling. The program continues this evening.

http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war/

"The Vietnam War," new documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, beginning tonight

Am looking forward to watching the new documentary, The Vietnam War, by the immensely talented Ken Burns; the film's co-director is Lynn Novick. The film, which begins airing tonight (Sunday) on PBS, is written by Geoffrey C. Ward.

The piece about the film, below, is from the September 1st New York Times.

From the end of the piece:

"Mr. Burns said the film takes an 'equal opportunity' approach to the inhumanity of the war. It’s the kind of resolutely centrist balance that may not sit well with partisan viewers, but so be it.

" 'Today, we suffer from too much certainty,” he said. 'I like the middle, the uncertainty of things. I think that’s where all the progress, all the healing, takes place.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/arts/television/ken-burns-and-lynn-novick-tackle-the-vietnam-war.html

2001

Remembering September 11th, on the sixteenth anniversary...