All My Foreparents

When I have blogged about the stories of particular people, I have tried to time them for their yahrzeits - the Jewish date of death. Somet...

An attorney whom I did not know phoned me with an interesting story.  Soon after the end of World War II, in devastated Poland, two Jewish s...

THE PROBLEM The state of my home office is kind of getting to me. It's two meters wide and four meters long, not counting the close...

I think I have mentioned Uncle Selig briefly once before, but since I have no idea how to search my entire blog history in one go, I cannot ...

I think I am giving myself a break this week. Not because nothing is happening but because there is too much happening. - - - - - - - - - ...

EXODUS If our forefathers had not left Egypt, we and our children and our children's children would still be slaves to Pharoah. ...

On 29 January last year, I received the following email from a young American-born woman living in Israel. (I have removed some identifying ...