No longer my spiritual home
I remember my first trip to Israel, the summer before I turned ten years old. As I was heading via sheirut (a shared cab in Israel) to the airport to return home to Milwaukee, I remember crying,...
Anniversary of the Six Day War
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, I wrote the following article, published in this month’s edition of the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle....
In 1939, the U.S. turned away the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 900 Jewish refugees. They were returned to Europe, where historians estimate that one quarter of them died. How tragic that, on International...