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We Jews have our own May Day holiday, which is celebrated with a bonfire. This Lag B’Omer ritual has a number of interpretations; figure out your own favorite.
Are the …
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Mike Fink
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4/30/20
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This toast to timber has multiple meanings, which I will list here. Our Arbor Day is one, of course. A symbol of ecology as well as Zionism. But for me, it was all about the poems by American artists …
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Mike Fink
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1/5/23
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“Every family has a strange aunt.” I borrowed that phrase from a book titled “Was Elvis Jewish?” by Paulette Cooper, a Holocaust survivor I once knew. I use the phrase as …
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Mike Fink
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8/7/20
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I inherited the syllabus and the bibliography for my elective course on the Bible. The Oxford Study Bible combines the “Old” and the New Testaments, and I have added Elie Wiesel’s “Five Biblical Portraits” as recommended reading. As you …
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Mike Fink
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11/21/14
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Once upon a time, was there in fact a cactus that caught fire by itself?
I read that once: a spontaneous flaming shrub gave birth to the Torah tale of the divine voice speaking to Moses from the …
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Mike Fink
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12/2/22
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“I was born in the Negev desert. The Turkish Ottoman Empire was crumbling, but my family was busy rebuilding the Hebrew language,” she said.
Varda Lev asked me to her home in the vicinity of the statue of Roger Williams. She wanted to show …
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Mike Fink
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6/18/15
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It ain’t easy being a liberal arts teacher at a design school. What you try to convey is an introduction to cultural concerns, or perhaps an invitation to use critical and appreciative …
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Mike Fink
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1/31/19
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On days of national or personal memory, I make a pilgrimage to my boyhood summer home on Teed Avenue in Barrington’s Hampden Meadows.
I drive my familiar route along the Wampanoag …
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Mike Fink
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2/2/17
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