Pre-Holocaust Photographs
A collection found in the wall of a house in Chelm, Poland. 180 photographs which had been hidden there before or during the war. Only two siblings survived, and though their brother had told family...
View ArticleMassacre and heroism
Everywhere I go today I see flags flying at half-mast. The AP has published the names of 29 of the victims of the horrific shooting at Virginia Tech yesterday. I am moved by the way they’re verifying...
View ArticleStop picking on religion
I am so tired of this argument. Of course religion fosters a sense of community, ritual and identity. Look how well these various religious centered communities have interacted through-out history as...
View ArticleThe Vel’ d’Hiv’
Today is 16 July. On this day in 1942, a roundup of Parisian Jewish men, women, and children began which would end, for most of them, in the crematoria at Auschwitz. It happens that today is the day...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden is dead
Usama bin Laden is dead. Baruch Dayan Emet: Blessed is the Judge of Truth / the true Judge. The phrase means both of those things. These words of Jewish acknowledgement of death seem ruthlessly...
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