I came across a new word recently in a New York Times article entitled "A Public Exit from Goldman Sachs Hits at a Wounded Wall Street." You may have heard of it, but I certainly had not. The word is: shibboleth. The word has several shades of meaning, but the one I find most intriguing …
Tag: Fiddler on the Roof
To Life, To Life, L’Chaim!
Speaking of dancing, life and inspiration, I would be remiss were I to fail to mention a fascinating scene from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof." Written in the late 1800s and first performed on Broadway in the 1960s, the musical stars Tevye, a poor milkman with five daughters and tells the tale of the …