Monday December 17, 2018 | 9 Tevet 5779
Weeks have passed since the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. What do we do now? Of course, we remember and memorialize those who were murdered. Of course, we reevaluate and improve security measures at our institutions. But those responses do not address the question that I am asking. I am asking what we should do when the […]
President Trump’s visit Oct. 30 to the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh – where an anti-Semitic gunman murdered 11 Jews gathered in prayer Oct. 27 – was an important gesture that symbolized national mourning and unity in the face of a horrific tragedy. The visit showed President Trump’s deep concern for the welfare […]
On Oct. 27, an anti-Semitic murderer whose name isn’t worth the paper it’s written on, walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, shouted “All Jews must die,” and opened fire. Eleven congregants were killed, and four police officers and two others were wounded. The rampage was the deadliest […]
During the summer of 2018, my husband and I took a Rhine River Boat Cruise to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. As Jews, we never imagined that we would ever want to take such a journey, but Germany today is not the same Germany of World War II. Among all the nations of the […]
I have purposely withheld these remarks until after the mid-term elections because I do not want my concerns to be relegated to either a Republican or a Democratic political perspective. As a Jewish American, I have voted for candidates from both parties numerous times, always with the hope that their election will make our […]
I owe the greatest happiness in my life to the Wisconsin Telephone Company. It happened when I was 14 years old, and it was the answer to a prayer. At that time, my parents and I lived in the small town of South Milwaukee (population 12,000 and about 20 miles from the much bigger […]
My, how things have changed since 2014. In 2014, we saw riots in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, President Obama initiated relations with Cuba and a Malaysian Airlines flight mysteriously disappeared (wreckage was later found). It was a time of racial strife and political division, with Ferguson serving as no small example. Yet […]
When I read of the professor who refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student to attend a Tel Aviv study-abroad program, my thoughts turned to Flint, Michigan. Yes, Flint, Michigan. You may recall, Flint is the city that had too much lead in the drinking water. A government switch […]
In early December of 2016, still reeling from the impending reality of President Donald J. Trump, a New York Times headline caught my eye. “Both feeling threatened, American Muslims and Jews join hands.” The story was about the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, “a grassroots group that now claims 50 chapters in more than 20 […]
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