$2 million due now: “Parenting Services Rendered”
At the command of God, Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac. Bernard Cooper\'s father merely presented him with a $2 million invoice for child-rearing services. And God had nothing to do with it.
Cooper will appear on a panel, moderated by Jewish Journal Religion Editor Amy Klein, at the West Hollywood Book Fair this Sunday. He says that \"The Bill from My Father,\" his latest book, is perhaps the most conventional of his three memoirs, in that it follows a more \"chronological narrative,\" the story of his relationship with his cantankerous father.
Cooper will appear on a panel, moderated by Jewish Journal Religion Editor Amy Klein, at the West Hollywood Book Fair this Sunday. He says that \"The Bill from My Father,\" his latest book, is perhaps the most conventional of his three memoirs, in that it follows a more \"chronological narrative,\" the story of his relationship with his cantankerous father.
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