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Ring of Defiance
by Ellen Stern (Willow Grove, PA) Recently I lost a gold band off the ring finger of my right hand. The ring is a plain gold band, and I use it as a guard to keep that hand’s main ring, a lovely garne… more →
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The Raoul Wallenberg Effect: Leadership from a Hero
wrote 1 month ago: London Memorial The story of a hero and a leader. The BBC’s report on Raoul Wallenberg achievi … more →
the wonkiest columnist in the driest newspaper in Britain is stating his case far more simply and clearly than the populist PR man turned prime minister
wrote 2 months ago: What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a mo … more →
What you do Matters: 20th Anniversary Lessons from the USHM: Part 1
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wrote 2 months ago: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist th … more →
In Toledo, asleep in the room of the moneylenders
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wrote 6 months ago: We took advantage of our empty nest status to take a week-long trip to Spain this month, the first t … more →
Ring of Defiance
wrote 6 months ago: by Ellen Stern (Willow Grove, PA) Recently I lost a gold band off the ring finger of my right hand. … more →
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Tony Judt
wrote 8 months ago: Published: September 5, 2006; 960 pages Available as an audiobook from Audible.com - Tony Judt passe … more →
The First Family
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wrote 9 months ago: by Sheldon P. Hersh (Lawrence, NY) There were a number of subjects that were always considered taboo … more →
'Miss Holocaust Survivor': Celebrate Beauty!
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wrote 10 months ago: Beauty is all around us and just because we seek it doesn’t mean we see it. The key is in the … more →
Pictures of Zagreb's Jewish community
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wrote 11 months ago: ‘We’re still here’ was a frequent refrain during my October conversational journey … more →
Accident of Fate
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wrote 1 year ago: by Mel Glenn (Brooklyn, NY) No such thing as too many concentration camp movies. No such thing as to … more →
A Gift for Mom and an Inspirational Birth
wrote 1 year ago: With Mother’s Day approaching, in honor of mothers all over the world, I present you with a sp … more →
Light Music
wrote 1 year ago: by Ilan Braun (Le Tour-du-Parc, Brittany, France) Have you ever heard On a summer evening The violi … more →
Would you hide me? Or: WWID?
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wrote 1 year ago: Afternoons, the ‘F’ train became the ‘fight train’ as I traveled to my NYU t … more →
Conjugations of God
wrote 1 year ago: by Ilan Braun (Le Tour-du-Parc, Brittany, France) There is no past or imperfect tense In the Creator … more →
Debora's Naked Identity: Rated 'G'
wrote 1 year ago: Keep your pants on: there is no nudity in this post! This says it all. Thanks to http://www.topix.c … more →
European perspectives from the Eldridge Street Synagogue
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wrote 1 year ago: ‘I’ve never been in a mosque!’ may not be what you would expect to hear inside a s … more →
A (Promised) Krakow Story and PICTURES!
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wrote 1 year ago: A young man in a yarmulke swept through my field of vision and competed with Anna G.’s story f … more →
From unimaginable to awe
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wrote 1 year ago: There are a few ‘must do’s in Krakow. Auswitch and Birkenau, Schindler’s Factory, … more →
Reunion in Oswego
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wrote 1 year ago: by Ellen Norman Stern (Willow Grove, PA) Late summer of 1945. The war was finally over. It was a st … more →
