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Why My Jewish Family Celebrates Christmas: It Might Not Be What You Think

Lester Eugene Denonn walked over the Brooklyn Bridge to work every day as a business and finance attorney on Wall Street. He never learned to drive. Notably bald, his passion was academic philosophy: epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of law, philosophy of religion, and especially Bertrand Russell. Lester was the most positive physical manifestation of the term egghead. If I could meet a deceased ancestor, it would be my great-grandfather Lester Denonn. When I collected books at a young age, majored in philosophy, and made Phi Beta Kappa, my mom and her sister compared me to their grandfather. Religion is the Read more