Salman Rushdie is a Wise Man

The human divide isn't between the religious and the irreligious but between the arrogantly cocksure and the humbly unsure

Salman Rushdie is a great man.

I met him twice. Once I had fun with the fact that I ran into Rushdie in the tiny town of [redacted], NV in a small grocery store at 11pm, and the second time we had an extremely meaningful public conversation on Yom Kippur in Manhattan about bravery.

I made a video in his honor about the Bar Kochba era Rabbi Akiva for my fr…