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Human Resources Lee Chottiner At the risk of sounding as though I’m crowing, something that I actually called for in print is going to happen. (Yes, I’m human; I have flaws. Don’t judge me too harshly.) Seriously, last year around … Read More
American history is sprinkled with “what if’s,” many of them involving famous men whose premature deaths left historians wondering how history might have changed if they had lived. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. comes to mind. In the case of … Read More
At 9:52 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers’ life changed forever. That was the time when the spiritual leader of Tree of Life * Or L’Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh called 911 to report his synagogue was under … Read More
Everyone is aware of the shocking events that transpired on the last day of Passover, when a man walked into Chabad of Poway, California, intent on carrying out acts of horror and destruction. He came face to face with Rabbi … Read More
Prior to the May 22 concert at Adath Jeshurun featuring 130 cantors, Cantor David Lipp opened the ark in the main sanctuary and removed a Torah. As the incoming president of the Cantor’s Assembly, Lipp had to make room in … Read More
Wendell Berry – poet, novelist, essayist, conservationist – sat on his porch in Henry County, the birds chirping as he described how he has lost his fights to preserve the agrarian way of life. Appalled by strip mining and mountaintop … Read More
Sonia Milrod said she wouldn’t be here – meaning alive – were it not for the courage of a wartime Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara. Likewise, she wouldn’t be here – meaning America – if post-war immigration laws mirrored today’s … Read More
Standing beneath a giant Holocaust mural in the J auditorium, Rabbi Avrohom Litvin admitted that he had been wrong about the resurgence of anti-Semitism. A crowd of about 150 people — gathered in the wake of the weekend shootings at … Read More