by Howard Schultz | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
I grew up in federally subsidized housing in Brooklyn. I was part of a generation of families that dreamed about the American dream. My dad had a series of blue-collar jobs. An uneducated man, he was kind of beaten by the system. He was a World War II veteran who had...
by S. Z. Sonnenfeld | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
During Communist-era Russia, learning about Judaism was a dangerous, illegal activity. …Although all we did was get together in one of our homes to talk and study Torah and the Hebrew language, in Russia that was a serious crime, so it was either secrecy or...
by Lennart Lindskog | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Choosing a Way to Die – A conversation with Marek Edelman, the only surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. by Lennart Lindskog On April 19 every year Marek Edelman receives a bunch of flowers from an unknown person. An errand boy from a florist’s...
by Naomi Ragen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
I was walking down the street in Jerusalem the other day when it suddenly occurred to me in the way those obvious thoughts just pop into one’s head out of nowhere, that never, in all my life, have I felt more proud to be an Israeli and to be a Jew. This might...
by Arianna Huffington | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
My mother, the central force in my life, died last month. The last time she was upset with me was when she saw me talking with my children and opening my mail at the same time. She despised multi-tasking. She believed it was a way to miss life, to miss the gifts that...
