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TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OR OPPROBRIUM?
Our group leader challenged us to find a particular souvenir during our impromptu stop at Manufaktura. But he provided no description or clues about where to look for it in the massive shopping/ [...]
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Posted MARCHING OUT OF AUSCHWITZ: REMEMBRANCE AND DEFIANCE
The bars over the broken steps down into the shattered hell that had been an Auschwitz death chamber seemed to be shedding tears. Residue of rain (and snow and hail) earlier in the day, the [...]
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Anti-Semitism, Other Hatreds, and The Book of Esther’s Eternal Truth
Anyone exposed to the news and hateful social media posts might find the featured quote incongruous with the situation in today’s world. What’s to cheer in the return of virulent anti-Semitism, [...]
An Unexpected Visit to Berlin
During a brief stopover in Berlin several months ago, I was already mulling the idea of starting a blog prompted by my (as yet unpublished) book about Rosi (the survivor who entrusted her story [...]
OF READING, BURNED BOOKS AND BURNING IDEAS
Every day, multiple online e-letters and e-zines arrive in my inbox. Most of them I never have time to even scan. But this week, seemingly by chance, I happened to read an article in one that [...]
CASTING A BROAD LIGHT
When Rosi Schotz first approached me about writing her life story, I knew her only as a sartorially eccentric older member of our congregation. Always pleasant, to be sure, she was a regular [...]
SEEING THE LIGHT, BEING THE LIGHT
Although we’re Jewish, my family always had a celebration on Christmas Day–because it happens to be my mother’s birthday (happy birthday, Mom). Often we would drive from our house on Long [...]
