“Memory Sustains Humanity”
Memory Sustains Humanity: Words inscribed on a glass and wooden case, which protects a Torah scroll in Mississippi. Which is …
Category Archives: Holocaust
We Will Light The Candles
It happened again. And again I felt the familiar combination of being heartbroken and not in the least surprised. Jews …
Speaking My Truth
Tonight I started writing about scapegoats and antisemitism. Scapegoats because this week’s Torah portion tells of the goat that was …
Listen and Remember
This week’s Torah portion is about the Revelation at Mt. Sinai. God is about to declaim the Ten Commandments from …
Antisemitism: Then and Now
Tonight is the 85th anniversary of Krystallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in Germany on November 9, 1938. On that …
Standing Up to Injustice
I’m writing this on January 27, designated by the UN as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year, the Jewish Federation …
Still Here
This week’s Torah portion tells of the biblical High Priest and the ritual he performed on Yom Kippur. It included …
Mourning the Past & Changing the Future
It rained all day here in Sarasota. Floridians are more accustomed to rainstorms that come and go, sometimes several times …
Spiritual Pollution
It’s been a hard week. Even while federal and state governments enforce (or at least encourage) social distancing, the president …
Scapegoats
I started writing tonight about scapegoats and anti-Semitism. Scapegoats because this week’s Torah portion tells of the goat that was …
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