listen to your rav? maybe not

 for the rabbi who told me not to move to cleveland because it wasn't growing:

There really are rabbis and mohalim like this

 

Does it have to be EVERY TIME?

The name Harlan Ellison doesn't sound Jewish to me, at least not the Harlan part. So when I read this, I figured we were dealing with a low class Southern gentile. But no.

Who is the rudest celebrity you have met, and who would be the nicest?

The rudest was celebrity I ever met Harlan Ellison. My husband, a famous science fiction author, introduced me to Harlan Ellison, also a famous science fiction writer. I was about five months pregnant at the time, and Ellison said, “You got him trapped, didn’t you?” My husband came close to socking him. At a conference several months later, my husband was on a panel discussion and I was in the audience. When Ellison had his turn to speak, every third word had four letters. The entire audience as shocked. When one lady left, Ellison yelled at her that she had a weak bladder.

The nicest was Robert Heinlein, also a science fiction writer. I can’t even count the number of kindnesses he and his wife Virginia bestowed on us. Theodore Sturgeon, author of “More Than Human”, came in a close second.

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Ellison was born to a Jewish family^[8] in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 27, 1934, the son of Serita (née Rosenthal) and Louis Laverne Ellison, a dentist and jeweler.

Heinlein, born on July 7, 1907, to Rex Ivar Heinlein (an accountant) and Bam Lyle Heinlein, in Butler, Missouri, was the third of seven children. He was a sixth-generation German-American; a family tradition had it that Heinleins fought in every American war, starting with the War of Independence.