Continue Reading Miami Advice Good that I was wearing sneakers. Fleet feet required to run away from trite exhortations. Photographed, no less, a street block apart. And then…
Continue Reading The Writing on the Wall Unstoppable Gentrification Last week was devoted to Holocaust poetry and resistance, a difficult topic. So I thought this week we’ll go a little lighter with some messages…
Continue Reading I am not Brave The pendulum has swung back in current assessments of German resistance to the Hitler regime. Earlier historians condemned an entire people for blindly and…
Continue Reading Our Duty to Witness Primo Levi’s appeal to all of us – as you’ll see in the poem below – could not be more timely. It…
Continue Reading For the Musicians Music played a huge role for those trying to survive; it helped to remember, it supported resistance, it allowed lament and it…
Continue Reading The Children’s Keeper Elisabeth von Thadden Towards the end of World War II she was beheaded by the Nazis for high treason. Elisabeth von Thadden was seen as…
Continue Reading Railways bring strangers Today I am thinking of the courage of the Kashariyot, the young women serving the Jewish resistance as couriers. A first and important…
Continue Reading Europe, Late Stefan Lux, a Jewish journalist and poet you have probably never heard about, publicly shot himself at the assembled League of Nations in…
Continue Reading For those who resisted I really should write about the psychology of racism this week, but the events of last week are still too painful. I…
Continue Reading Expert Advice The experiencing vs the remembering self I’ll make up for yesterday’s overly long rumination by a short suggestion: listen to the master about some amazing traps for your…
