Fighting ‘Gravity’ and other motion picture musings
Some chalk talk on the 86th annual Oscar tournament.
Some chalk talk on the 86th annual Oscar tournament.
It seems the recent Pew poll is all the Jewish community can talk about, and most of the conversation is a doom-and-gloom perseverance on the possible extinction of Judaism. I’ve heard much moaning, a fair measure of denial and a handful of creative “solutions.”
I have one big answer to the depressing findings of the Pew poll, but you’re not going to like it. The Pew Research Center’s landmark new survey of American Jews came out last week, and the American Jewish community reacted about the way Sandra Bullock does when her tether snaps in “Gravity.” Except our “Oy vey!” probably could have been heard in space.
If you listen to what cosmologists say about the origin of the universe, you have to put your mind in a place where mystics also dwell.