
Central Synagogue 1956 and 2026
Should I have a second bar mitzvah?
This is the Substack of the husband and wife authors and screenwriters Roger Simon and Sheryl Longin. The title is from most recent of Roger's 14 published books "American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Red States to Blue States".

Should I have a second bar mitzvah?

[UPDATE at end} What? Has Simon gone crazy? (Maybe) AMERICAN REFUGEES: THE ROGER SIMON/SHERYL LONGIN SUBSTACK is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Isn’t the party in power legendarily the loser in the midterms? Doesn’t two-thirds of the world and most of the solar system hate Donald Trump? Well, sure, but so…

Everybody a David Lean or Kurosawa

You don't have to tell Mamdani and AOC; they live it.

Exit the city to save it... and yourselves

Selective Prosecution goes global.

Not to mention a dangerous Venezuelan psychiatrist

If, as they say, timing is everything, the untimely passing of Lindsey Graham couldn’t have come at a worse time for his former colleague in the Senate, Mitch McConnell. Fellow Senator Susan Collins perhaps spoke too soon when she announced in 2018, upon the death of John McCain, that “the lions of the Senate are gone. It is very sad.” By sheer tenure, McConnell would seem to hold that title. If…

Nobody's watching the store

... and toward what end?

Save our republic by ending bigotry

It's against Jews AND Christians

Jeffries and Schumer silent. Only Cajun Rages.

What's It Your Business, Voter?

Win one for the Devil

These days, the hills are not alive with the Sound of Music. They’re alive with the Sound of Vitriol. AMERICAN REFUGEES: THE ROGER SIMON/SHERYL LONGIN SUBSTACK is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Depending on where you stand on President Trump’s Iran deal, that vitriol is aimed at Vice President JD Vance,…

Sometimes Trump is as inscrutable as the most gnomic Zen Koan—but with a radically different style. We could ask… What is the sound of an Iran Deal clapping? AMERICAN REFUGEES: THE ROGER SIMON/SHERYL LONGIN SUBSTACK is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber at our new levels. Whatever it proves to be, whatever we imagine it to be,…

Can't wait for the debate.

Annals of the home front

A hundredth birthday reminisce