Jul 19, 2020 | News, Politics
In the latter half of the 20th century there was a newsman from Buffalo, New York, Irv Weinstein, who ended his newscast with “It’s 11 o’clock, Do you know where your children are?” Perhaps we need to amend that to “Do you know where your children are most of...
Jul 5, 2020 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
Just before he was beheaded, Daniel Pearl said: “My mother is Jewish. My father is Jewish. I am a Jew.” I was out the other day and heard this most upsetting statement: You don’t vote for a political party just because of the way they...
Jun 22, 2020 | Ethics, Politics
UPDATE July 1. Thank you to another reader for sharing information about my father’s shtetl: Your father’s shtetl is not Sassov (which was never part of (pre Soviet) “Russia” and was only shifted between...
