TMV’s own posts will begin late today. Last night he first went on a two hour mission to help pick up some Christmas gifts for some kids (yes, one of Santa’s elves is a Jew).
Then, later, he took his foster son’s two kids to a church Christmas service that was capped by a truly moving candlelights-held-aloft chorus of “Silent Night.” He is bushed (no political pun intended).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.