lean forward

‘I see. Forgive my asking, but are you by any chance related to Joel Litvinoff, the lawyer?’

‘Yes, he’s my father.’

‘I thought there might be a connection. I know a little about him. He is a socialist, no?’

Rosa smiled, remembering all the arguments she had had with Joel over the authenticity of socialism. “Of a kind, yes,’ she said.

‘And an atheist?’

‘Oh yes. An atheist certainly. An anti-theist, in fact.’

The rabbi leaned forward. ‘An anti-theist? What does that mean?’

“Well…I guess it means that he thinks religion is a bad thing.’

‘I see.’ The rabbi smiled. ‘So he disapproves of the God in whom he doesn’t believe.’