Phil Wolff . Phil Wolff . In the United States, our Thanksgiving holiday is coming up. Film releases give a rhythm to our autumn. Scary movies come out for Halloween, family movies and blockbuster-hopefuls come out for Thanksgiving, and Oscar candidates debut for Christmas.
Every day is a good day to appreciate the glass half full.
Phil Wolff . Multiple layers of crowd-control fence surround a Lausanne, Switzerland, synagogue I visited last week. Stern, alert, plain-clothes security walked its defensive perimiter. They challenged me as I approached. I could see our exhalations in the cold.