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I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a... →
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly... →
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and... →
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.
I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other... →
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is... →
I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.
I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.
I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney... →
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the... →
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't... →
Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956) is an American actor and writer.