Reassurance
Much help out there to answer this question (if you want to avoid stepping into that truck and getting proselytized.)
You could rely on…
Mixed Message
For free health advice you do not have to look far. However, parsing the message is already challenging if you are of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…