Chanukah and xmas loom. Breath fogs brisk air. 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.