I’m spending a lot of time this summer going through what seems like mountains of material in preparation for my turning over the RFC’s Executive Director job to my daughter Jenn.  My last regular work-day in the office is August 31st. I want to have figured out by then what files Jenn will need for future reference, what should go home with me, what should be recycled, archived etc…

 Last Friday night my wife Elli and I attended the world premiere of Commie Camp at the VisionFest film festival in lower Manhattan.   Commie Camp is a documentary made by Katie Halper about Camp Kinderland (http://www.campkinderland.org/), a secular Jewish, socialist-oriented summer camp, located in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.

How could the case of Edward Snowden have anything to do with global warming?  By now I probably don’t have to mention that Edward Snowden is the intelligence analyst who blew the whistle on the NSA’s previously top secret PRISM program which has, among other things, monitored all our phone calls, emails and texts.

We’re still feeling the effects of lost sleep, but we’re also basking in the glow of the most dramatically successful program we’ve ever produced.  Sitting in the darkened theater Sunday afternoon watching such a challenging, one-and-only walk through of Carry it Forward, the evening’s program, I wondered if we hadn’t taken on more than we could handle.  This was our most ambitious theatrical undertaking.  We’d orchestrated at least one minimally staged scene before, but what we planned this time was much more

The RFC’s program, Carry it Forward, will take place this Sunday evening, June 16th, just days before the exact date of the 60th anniversary of my parents’ execution.  In response to this timing, my wife, Elli, who authored the script, wrote this year’s performance in four acts to mirror my parents’ final four days.  In 2009, I wrote blogs on five consecutive days that outlined the events of the last five days of my parents’ lives and my reaction to