Photos by John Boyle Yitgadal – Auschwitz V’yitkadash – Birkenau Sh’mei rabah – Belzec Amen. B’al’ma di v’ra chir’utei – Bergen Belsen V’yamlich malchutei – Sachsenhausen B’chayeichon u’vyomeichon –…
May 15, 2018
Being a parent is not easy
[This talk was given on May 15, 2018 for the Florence Crittenton Services Luncheon.] This past Sunday was Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who are mothers…
April 26, 2018
The Beloved Community
It was an honor to reflect on the meaning of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community as I entered into conversation with The Reverend Chip Edens at Christ Church in…
April 20, 2018
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018 and my grandfather’s songs that were sung in the death camps
In Hebrew, the word of poem and song are one and the same. On this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Yiddush Book Center sent out this video clip about my grandfather,…