What You Get with Each Purchase – Delta Airlines vs. US Airways
I always fly Delta because Detroit is a hub, and I accrue miles that I can use toward future flights. The Delta terminal is bigger, newer, with more flights and more direct flights, and so it has...
View ArticleNever Again, Never Forget
We saw The Book Thief last night (not a great movie, I should read the book), and it occurred to me, as the Third Reich flags furled throughout the gray German townscape, that I grew up meeting...
View ArticleWhat Would You Do?
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom haShoah, a day dedicated to remembering the atrocities of the second world war, the abhorrent hatred and persecution of so many people, including my...
View ArticleThe Truth About Peace in the Middle East
A politico on the radio this morning attempted to explain the real reason behind the lack of peace in the Middle East. I had to shut it off because it’s pretty hard to pontificate from an ivory bubble...
View ArticleVisiting the Holocaust Museum with my Son
You begin with a history of how it all came to be, the brilliant curation of exhibits backed by strategic lighting and design, height and weight and magnitude. You walk down, down, down into darkness...
View ArticleGoing to Israel
When you land, the whole plane erupts in applause. Some people kiss the tarmac, tears dotting their cheeks. The first time I stepped off a plane onto the land of Israel, I felt oddly as if I had come...
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Too Close to Home: Attacks on French Jews
After women shopping for their Shabbat meals were gunned down in a kosher supermarket in Paris, 5,000 police officers have been dispatched to secure Jewish schools and synagogues throughout France. A...
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Moral Courage
When you use your power to speak out against wrong, to stand up even when people don’t want you to, you make the world a better place. Silence doesn’t win wars. Silence doesn’t create a harmonious...
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