Baby Boomer Bubbe
A Young Adult’s Impressions of Poland
Sandy Taradash’s granddaughter Kami Rosenblatt writes about her trip to Jewish sites in Poland. [Read more…]
Holocaust
Reflections on Aging
Lech L’cha: Going Forth with God, and Without
Cantor Rhoda Harrison compares God’s biblical command to Abraham, lech l’cha, to go forth, with the existential imperative to flee oppression at the rise of Nazism in Germany marked by this week’s observance of Kristallnacht. [Read more…]
Care-Giving Concerns
Philadelphia Community Gathers for Pride Havdalah to Remember LGBTQ Individuals Persecuted in the Holocaust
Community members gathered on Saturday, June 18 at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia for a Pride Havdalah program to learn about and commemorate the persecution of LGBTQ+ individuals in the Holocaust. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Seekers of Meaning 4/22/2022: A Humanitarian Mission to Help Ukrainian Refugees
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Rabbis Jeffrey Salkin (center) and Gregory Marx (right) discuss their recent humanitarian mission to the Polish border with Ukraine to deliver aid to Ukrainian refugees. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Seekers of Meaning 1/28/2022: Richard Brownstein, author of “Holocaust Cinema Complete”
This week’s guest is Richard Brownstein, author of Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide, just published by McFarland Press. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Seekers of Meaning 11/05/2021: Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, author of “And Often the First Jew”
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, former president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, and author of the new book, “And Sometimes the First Jew,” which chronicles the accomplishments, adventures, and “firsts” in Germany for Rabbi Fuchs and his wife Vickie, who are both children of Holocaust survivors. [Read more…]
Reflections on Aging
Florida Tragedy Recalls Other Scenes for Rabbi Moss
The Surfside, Florida, condominium collapse forces Rabbi Dr. Steven Moss to reflect on other tragedies over the years. [Read more…]
Carole's Corner
The Stumbling Stones of the Budapest Ghetto
Carole Leskin tours the Budapest Ghetto and learns about the “stolpersteine,” or “stumbling stones” that commemorate the Holocaust. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Sharon Hart-Green, Author of “Come Back for Me,” novel about Holocaust survivors, appears on Seekers of Meaning Podcast
Sharon Hart-Green, author of “Come Back for Me,” a Holocaust novel of “loss, trauma, memory, and, above all, the ties of family,” is this week’s guest on the Seekers of Meaning Podcast. [Read more…]
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How To Respond When Everything Falls Apart
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman discusses ways to deal with troubled times effectively. [Read more…]