Leonard Grossman
~ Divrei Torah ~
~ Modem Junkie ~ Ordinary Potato ~
2008
Leonard Grossman
Chicago IL USA
Leonard Grossman
~ Divrei Torah ~
~ Modem Junkie ~ Ordinary Potato ~
2008
Leonard Grossman
Chicago IL USA
LEONARD GROSSMAN has been a man of words since his earliest days, and has lent his voice, his passion and his intellect to causes and goals ranging from the pursuit of justice to feeding the hungry, from leading the community to sustaining and entertaining his large circle of acquaintance. His heart is as big as the globe and more, eagerly welcoming and cherishing friends, extending care and nurturing, healing the world with deeds of energetic tenderness, in small steps and large leaps.
THIS VOLUME brings together some of Len's public writing for the first time. The remarkable scope of these essays serves to limn the broad outlines of his eclectic interests.
ON THE OCCASION of Len Grossman's sixty-fifth birthday, his friends and family gather to celebrate the words and the heart of a creative, loving, passionate, thoughtful, astute and incisive observer of the decades which have bridged the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We all anticipate many more words of Len's wit, wisdom, and humor.
Lovingly assembled by
Len's wife
Cindy Barnard
November 2008
Table of Contents
Distinguished Career Service Award 13
Divrei Torah: Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible 17
Shabbat Hachodesh - March 25, 2006 27
V'Etchanan - August 8, 1998 32
First Shabbat of Consolation, Shabbat Nachamu 35
Haftarah Shemot January 1, 1993 43
Bereishit - October 24, 1992 45
Vayishlach - December 5, 1987 51
Beshalach - February 14, 1987 54
Shabbat Hanukkah - December 14, 1985 59
Community of Congregations of Oak Park and River Forest, 2003 64
Rededication of St. Edmunds - November 19, 2000 68
Thanksgiving November 22, 2000 69
West Suburban Temple Har Zion Web Site 70
WST Remarks on the Installation of Hilarie Lieb May 14, 1996 71
WST President's Message March 1991 73
WST President's Welcome - Across the Sea, March 1991 74
WST President's Message March 1991 75
WST President's Message December 1990 76
WST President's Message October 1990 77
WST Annual Report, April 7, 1990 81
WST President's Message January 1990 87
WST President's Message September 1990 89
WST Board of Governors 1990 90
Focusing Institute Web Site 91
Reflections of a Modem Junkie 93
Reflections of a ModemJunkie: The Complete Archive 94
The Morphing of a ModemJunkie - April, 2000 109
What a Tangled Web: February 2000 113
Trust or Consequences, January 2000 123
Thoughts at the End of a Century, December 1999 133
My Cup Runneth Over, November, 1999 136
Searching for Barry Goldstein: Virtual Community -- Real Loss, September 1999 139
Presents Tense, July, 1999 146
Plugged In Unglued, June, 1999 150
Quitting Comdex Cold Turkey, May, 1999 155
Validated --Balance in a Brave New World, April, 1999 157
Still Online Still Amazed; Tales of Then and Now, February, 1999 160
A Virtual Vacation and a Real Rest, January, 1999 166
I Ain't Cuttin' My Blessin': A Story for the Season, December, 1998 169
Catching Up: Including a Look at WordPerfect 8, November, 1998 171
Because it's There: The Publication of the Starr Report, October, 1998 176
Installing Windows 98 -- On the Cutting Edge, July, 1998 189
A Matter of Perspective -Two Unrelated Events, June, 1998 196
Spam, Spam,Spam,Spam,Spam, May, 1998 198
What hath God Wrought? March, 1998 208
Thanksgiving Thoughts, November, 1997 212
I am not a Luddite, October, 1997 214
October Supplement: They are coming to take me away 217
A Matter of Time, September, 1997 218
I am Counting on You, July, 1997 221
Dr. Debakey: Where are you now that I need you? June, 1997 223
How else do you get rid of the dead Indians from the bottom of the t.v.? May, 1997 226
Culture Shock, April, 1997 229
ACCESS, Access, access, February, 1997 231
New Years Revelations, January, 1997 234
Don't Wait for the Fat Lady, December, 1996 236
Multimedia Interactive Multitasking, October, 1996 239
Triangulation - Then and Now, September, 1996 241
Summer Reverie Edition, August, 1996 243
Comdex in a day, June, 1996 244
In Memory of Arthur, May, 1996 247
A World Grown Smaller . . . April, 1996 249
A ModemJunkie tries HTML-IN HTML!!? March, 1996 250
"To See Oursel's As Others See Us!" February, 1996 252
"Whither are We Drifting?" January, 1996 255
"All I want for Christmas . . ." December, 1995 258
Faster FASTER F A S T E R!! Up to 28.8 - November, 1995 259
Looking Back...A Year on the Net, October, 1995 262
Starting Place, September, 1995 266
Win 95 --A Revolutionary Approach, August, 1995 270
This may be the greatest moment in online . . . July, 1995 272
"The Corner Garage " June, 1995: My Favorite Piece 275
Slowing down (I came home and didn't logon), April, 1995 278
Getting "Stoned" and an intro to my favorite sites, March, 1995 279
Life before the InfoBahn, February, 1995 282
Learning to Walk Again --First Steps on the Net, December, 1994 284
The Pawnshop Special (I jump to Windows), November, 1994 286
Rush Hour on the information Highway, September, 1994 288
Discipline (I promise not to logon today), June, 1993 290
Meeting the Faces Behind the Screen, May, 1993 293
The DOS 6 Rollout, April, 1993 294
The Great PKZIP Flap, March, 1993 296
Quicken--A TRIPLE THREAT!! July 3, 1992 297
Oh Johnny, We Hardly Know You, 2004 302
O Little Town of Bethlehem, 2001 306
An Open Letter To Benjamin Netanyahu, 1997 315
A Fire is Burning: On the Federal Shutdown, January 1996 317
Finding Poetry in the Net, By James Coates, Tribune Computer Writer, April 2, 1995 328
Rev. 5/13/2009