Editor’s Note

I’ve had a lifelong love affair with curiosity. In its quiet, humble way, curiosity can lead to the most wonderful human relationships.

Set in the City of Dreams, the film makes us confront the clash of individual dreams, while conveying a raw, authentic beauty for a city no one would ever describe as beautiful.

His love of life comes with an existential question that floats throughout the play: Why is he still alive? Why did he dodge all those bullets?

Why is it that despite the enormous resources and money we spend fighting antisemitism, it just keeps getting worse?

Even if we really are victims, it doesn’t help us to come across as victims. The minute we do that, we look like losers, we make things worse, and the haters win.

Jew hatred or no Jew hatred, building a thriving Jewish future in America is the essential fight we must keep alive for the rest of this century.