Spirituality & Faith / 10 May 2021
Was The Tragedy At Meron Preventable?
It is always easy to dismiss the warnings.
Hold Dualities Together / 07 May 2021
Mother Really Does Know Best
When tragedy strikes, motherly advice unexpectedly becomes a lifesaver.
Daily Life / 04 May 2021
Six Major Benefits Of Apologizing To Our Kids
A sincere apology to our children has significant benefits to their development in both the short and long term.
Historic Profiles, Inspiring Story, Longform, Longform, Relationships & Family, Uncategorized / 04 May 2021
Looking Evil In the Face, Boldly and Beautifully
“If there is only one book you are going to read….” is not something I say often, and something I don’t think should ever be said about a topic as important and as complicated as the Holocaust. I will say though, that anyone who cares about the topic, or any questions of evil and how we respond to it, really must read Faris Cassell’s new, and already award-winning book, The Unanswered Letter. I recently had the opportunity to talk with Faris about her work, which had already been awarded first place in the Jewish Book Council’s 2020 category for Holocaust writing, when we sat down, and since that time, has also won first place in the American Society of Journalists and Authors 2020 biography category. In other words, many people are noticing this powerful, compelling, and perhaps even game-changing approach to the topic. You will begin to get a sense of what I mean, as you read the record of our brief exchange, and I hope it leads you to read this book about one unanswered letter, but also about the “unanswered letters” in all of our lives, and even how we might begin to answer them. Faris, you state at the very beginning of the foreword, that The Unanswered Letter is “the story of a journey, (yours) and others, into the world of a letter dated August 5, 1939.” What have you discovered in your own journey — what wisdom or insight feels especially applicable to the moment in which we find ourselves in May 2021? This may sound harsh, but it reflects accumulated insights of my decade-long journey researching, writing, and pondering this story: We all need to look evil in the face. I’d lived a life of privilege at the time I encountered Alfred Berger’s desperate letter….
Grief & Coping / 27 Apr 2021
Hank~Losing A Dog, Grasping The Eternal
How the loss of a beloved pet brought new perspective to mortality.
Today is a doubly sad day. Today I mourn as a Jew, and today, I mourn as an American. Today is Tisha b’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, a day that marks the destruction of both the first and second Temples in Jerusalem. Today is the day on which the Jewish people recall thousands of years of hurt and harm, homelessness and harshness, sometimes of unimaginable measure. Tisha b’Av marks the moments when we have failed to believe — in ourselves and/or in God — when we have......
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John Robert Lewis was born in the city of Troy, Alabama, on February 21, 1940, to sharecroppers Willie Mae Carter and Eddie Lewis. John was the third of ten children his parents had together. He attended segregated schools and was told by his parents not to challenge the unfairness of the Jim Crow Laws in the South. Lewis did the complete opposite of what his parents told him and became an American Civil Rights leader and politician, most famously known for becoming the chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As......
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The quiet of the pandemic gives some of us the opportunity to contemplate our life purpose....
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News & Politics |
July 14, 2020
School Openings: An Intervention From Your Concerned Canadian Neighbor
The numbers themselves are overwhelming....
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Compassion for difficulties |
July 09, 2020
How Will I Know When I’m Ready To Emerge From Quarantine?
For many of us, the transition back to "normal" may be difficult....
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As artists, it's also part of our job to not only be advocates but to provide relief for those in difficult times....
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