I have read “A Hebraic Obsession” and will read it again, and probably again! I read in awe as I knew I would. You see, your father was my Doctor when I was a child, a man that I eagerly waited for him when I was ill. And without a lot of pomp or circumstance I was always cured.
I remember Dr. Laitner in his crisp suit and tie and his smiling face and pleasant manner, always a gentleman. And, I will also remember those evil numbers tattooed on his forearm, a constant reminder publicizing the crime of being born Jewish!
Even after all these years, I too, miss Dr. Laitner.

He was indeed, a man among men!

Steven Merl

Steven,

Thanks for your beautiful words.

Mort

I found your short story on shiva and I am reading it to my book club friends next week as an opening story to the book I will be reviewing “This is Where I leave you, by Jonathan Tropper… You gave a very warm and loving picture about your experience when you sat shiva for your father..I just wanted you to know that I found it very touching…. Geri

Geri,

Hope your book club friends enjoyed my short story. Your words that my story, “gave you a warm and loving picture about my shiva experience” made my day. FYI I am including the story in my new book entitled, “The Greatest Gift”. It should be published in about two months.

Mort

“The Stairs” has been accepted into Slovakia’s Minutnik International Film and Beer Festival. I love their director’s chair in their logo.

Here are some firsts:

1. First acceptance with a Connoisseur Beer Tasting;
2. First acceptance in Slovakia— a beautiful country, I visited as a hippie, when it was called Czechoslovakia— before it divided itself into two nations;
3. First acceptance showing Russian cult films;
4. First contest where the first place winner gets  a motorhome for a week (for needs of shooting or for a vacation).

Here is why they call it Minutnik:

 The name comes from a stream by the same name that has a strange property of only flowing in sporadic, minute-long bursts. This is why the film festival will focus on short films.

If you think I am going to make any jokes about minute-long sporadic bursts you are wrong. But if you have one I am all ears.

Remember to RSVP for world premiere of “The Stairs” at the Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale on June 25, 2016 at 5:30. 

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Yay Mort!!!!— Eva