Here we go again. Imagine being African American today in Charleston where my brother-in-law and sister live. My sister is Jewish, I wonder if she ever thinks how it would be to live there if the crossed bars were instead a twisted cross? South Carolina celebrates many of the same legal hol[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stephanie Schwartz’
March 4th, 2015 - 8:55 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 66: as the 70th anniversary approaches
We are now less than a month from the 70th anniversary of my father entering Buchenwald to give medical care. That should be joyous event, a good thing in the face of horror .. a chance to honor him for his courage and kindness to the ill. One of my goals has been to celebrate […][...]
January 27th, 2015 - 4:04 pm § in Hypocrisy
BUCHENWALD 63: Honoring My Father on Holocaust Memorial Day. Tags!
Help me honor a Jewish hero. This is the sixty third entry in a series I have written about my father’s amazing photographs taken inside Buchenwald. I am posting this to Facebook and would greatly appreciate any support or ideas about how to get these materials into the public domain. It i[...]
Sunday Revelations: The day after Yom Kippur .. and the Schwartz Family Feud
This is the 22nd post about Yom Kippur since The Ave began. Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the last day of a period of eight days called the days of awe .. starting with the Jewish New Year .. Rosh Hoshana and end of eight days, a period where Jews are supposed to reflect on […][...]
Buchenwald 56. Living Danish Heroes at Rosh Hashanah … Teshuvah
As we approach Yom Kippur 5775 (2014 CE), today marks nearly the fiftieth essay in my Buchenwald series. This essay is posted during one of the ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, days each Jew is supposed to spend thinking about how to be a better person …a process called &[...]
January 20th, 2014 - 4:54 am § in Misc.
Quantification 0f Sibling Rivalry
SIBLING VERBAL AB– USE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, HOSTILITY, SOMATIZATION, LIMBIC SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION, AND PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS Majed A. Ashy, Ph.D. (HarvardUniversity); John Kim (BostonUniversity) Abstract The first crime committed in history according to the world major religions occurred among sibli[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: A message to my brother and sister
TALMUD: Love Prevents Jealousy by Rabbi Yisrael Kaniel – April 26, 2015 In the beginning of the Torah portion of Kedoshim, the renowned medieval commentator R. Moshe ben Nachman, a.k.a. Ramban or Nachmanides cites a statement of our Sages in Vayikra Rabbah in which they say that this Torah p[...]