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Lee Chottiner

Don’t forget the suffering in Africa

Human Resources Lee Chottiner Abebe Kahsay believes his people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and the Jews could soon share a deadly resemblance. Unless things change quickly, both will have endured a time when six million of their people were killed … Read More >

Latest News June 1, 2022

Witnessing history is a tough job

Human Resources  Lee Chottiner Among the 2,500 people who marched to Auschwitz-Birkenau this year as part of the March of the Living were Ukrainian refugees from the war in their homeland. The April 28 event, which culminated in the traditional … Read More >

Latest News May 4, 2022

During this war, try being like Amichai

Human Resources Lee Chottiner This week, I got an email from my friend, Ranen Omer-Sherman, the Judaic Studies chair at the University of Louisville. He wanted to share a poem by the great Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. He asked me … Read More >

Latest News March 28, 2022

Time to flee USA? Not without a fight

Human Resources Lee Chottiner Should American Jews be scared these days? Bluntly, yes. When a Tennessee school district can ban Maus, the seminal graphic novel of the Holocaust, the answer is yes. When a governor – Ron DeSantis of Florida … Read More >

Latest News National/Global February 28, 2022

Going to synagogue is an act of defiance

Human Resources Lee Chottiner It’s time for Jews to be defiant. Again. Jews are no strangers to defiance; we have resorted to it many times in our history, defying enemies who were intent on depriving us of our homes, our … Read More >

Latest News January 27, 2022

COP26 and the Jews: It’s not too late

Human Resources Lee Chottiner COP26, the just-concluded United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was hardly everything environmentalists – Jewish environmentalists in particular – had hoped for. Leading developed nations did agree to reduce methane emissions. There were commitments to … Read More >

Latest News November 29, 2021

Weaponizing Holocaust not OK, not even for Jews

Human Resources Lee Chottiner Weaponizing the Holocaust has been going on for some time, but with nowhere near the intensity that we are seeing now. Even Jews, people who should know better, are now getting in to the act, promising … Read More >

Latest News September 24, 2021

I am an American, a Jew and a stranger

Human Resources Lee Chottiner I am an American, a Jew and a stranger The exterminator walked from room to room of my house, spraying the corners and baseboards as he does during every quarterly inspection, strains of David’s Harp lilting … Read More >

Latest News August 27, 2021

Tale of two stories: Ben & Jerry’s, Pegasus

Human Relations Lee Chottiner As a pro-Israel Jew, it was gobsmacking to watch the … hmmm … meltdown in the Jewish world over news that Ben & Jerry’s will no longer sell its ice cream in Israeli settlements. Ben & … Read More >

Latest News July 30, 2021

Real religious freedom in Israel has a chance

Human Resources Lee Chottiner Reform and Conservative Jews in the United States buy Israel Bonds, support foreign aid to Israel, send their children there for summer experiences and even make aliyah. They defend Israel against cancel culture anti-Semites, even when … Read More >

Latest News June 28, 2021

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