Featured on The Times of Israel Blog There has been so much shared of survivors’ accounts of the atrocities they lived through in the Holocaust, but not nearly enough of the trauma they’ve passed onto their children, their children’s children and what future generations may have to bear.  If we only consider the approximately 11 million victims murdered in the Holocaust – of which there were six million Jewish lives, there must be at least that many survivors of family members and other...

Featured on the Times of Israel Blog On the night of November 9-10, 1938, Nazi German leaders unleashed a nationwide antisemitic riot.  This week marked 87 years after this unconscionable event. The violence was supposed to appear as an unplanned outburst of popular anger against Jews. But in reality, it was state-sponsored terror of Jews manifested in vandalism and fear.  The riot came to be known as Kristallnacht – "The Night of Broken Glass" or "The November Pogrom."  The widespread...

Featured in The Times of Israel blog On Yom Kippur day, October 1993, my rabbi’s sermon in synagogue was the story of the upcoming...