By Seth Rogovoy The pain of loss seems to be getting worse, not better, with each passing day. Maybe it’s the accumulation of days since Maggie has been gone – two weeks now – too many days without seeing her or talking to her or getting a text from her or having anything to do…
From inside this bad dream I have been living since 2:30pm this past Monday (February 10, 2014), I’ve been trying to make sense of things. After we had walked our dogs for the second time that day – at the cemetery where we will bury her on Saturday — Maggie was sitting here, drinking coffee…
Could Hudson be home to a Writers Room – a space dedicated to the art, craft, and business of writing? A quiet space with semi-private workstations that — in addition to providing such essentials as a desk, lighting, coffee, printing, and storage — would encourage the solitary – and sometimes lonely — pursuit of writing…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., January 3, 2014) – Castle Street Café is offering the opportunity for contributors to the Rogovoy Report to enjoy a free dinner for two – with the option to dine with Seth Rogovoy — as a way to thank the community for its support of the Rogovoy Report’s curated e-newsletters and online…
A letter to readersLast January, I set up a PayPal button on the Rogovoy Report website (see right-hand side of this page) and invited readers to help defray the cost of providing free, daily and weekly e-newsletters – BerkshireDaily, HudsonValleyDaily, BerkshireWeekend and HudsonValleyWeekend – as well as the original stories and adapted press releases posted…
by Seth Rogovoy The band’s signature song, “Walk This Way”; the group’s drummer; the inspiration behind its hip-hop comeback in the 1980s; the chief composer of its late career hits; even Aerosmith’s name itself tie this most unlikely hard-rock outfit to the Jewish people…. READ MORE in THE FORWARD….
The Rogovoy Report now offers the opportunity to run classified ads in the BerkshireDaily and HudsonValleyDaily e-newsletters. These inline, text-based ads can run for one day or for a week at a time (Monday-Friday), and are ideal for (but not limited to) Help Wanted, For Sale, and In Search Of (ISO) ads. Classifieds are limited to…
Anti-Semitic acts in Pine Bush, N.Y., schools reminds me of my school years in Islip, N.Y.by Seth Rogovoy The New York Times ran an exhaustive article today about anti-Semitic acts perpetrated on Jewish students at public schools in Pine Bush, N.Y (“Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town’s Schools“). As a result, New York State Governor…
My debut as a yoga memoirist/bloggerToday marks my debut as a yoga memoirist of sorts. I have begun contributing occasional short essays to Thrive: the Kripalu blog on yoga, health and wellness. First up is a piece called “Born to Do Yoga,” which recounts, well, my inevitable path to yoga, which began as a youngster…
by Seth Rogovoy Sir Paul McCartney recently released “New,” his first album of original rock songs since 2007’s “Memory Almost Full.” Given the 71-year-old McCartney’s love affair with all things Jewish for the past half-century — including collaborators, business associates, girlfriends and wives — the title could well be meant as a transliteration of the…
