Category Archives: family

the boy and I

Posted on 2010/05/16 by davka

the boy with his hands raised As I men­tioned here on April 10, when I was in my ear­ly 20s, I tried to imag­ine the life of the boy with his hands raised being led from the War­saw Ghet­to. I spent months with him, … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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The People of the…

Posted on 2009/09/06 by davka

We have been called a Peo­ple of the Book for near­ly 1400 years. We did not invent the term. It was giv­en to us (as well as to Chris­tians) by our cousins the Mus­lims. Nonethe­less, even as our tech­nolo­gies move us … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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