Although I was there, I can\’t tell you much about the events of Sept. 11, 2001, that you don\’t already know. After all, you had CNN; I only had my two eyes and the prescription lenses I thankfully remembered to grab as I fled the apartment.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11, memories of the tragedy are still fresh in the minds of many Jews.
Rabbi Marvin L. Labinger executive director of the Pacific Southwest Region of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism from 1990-2000, died July 25, 2002 at the age of 66.
At a time when many people are writing and publishing memoirs, Sternburg\’s \”Phantom Limb\” is uncommon.
So, my divorce is now official. My marriage of three years, eight months is over.
In the 1948 film "Gentleman\’s Agreement," Phil Green, changing his last name to Greenberg, passes as a Jew in order to write a searing exposé of anti-Semitism.
Passover is a special holiday for me and brings back many wonderful food memories.
Memories of lost family are conjured when walking in footsteps of the past
Another year come and gone. Another one beginning. For me, an occasion more for recollection than repentance.
Artist Tobi Kahn is obsessed with memories of the Holocaust. His abstract landscapes depict recollections of a haunted time and place he never experienced. Simple shapes conjure rivers and roads that snake through still valleys, serene at first glance, disturbing upon reflection. Mountain peaks thrust from brooding waters, in a palette of muted browns, golds and blues. Almost always, the paintings are devoid of people. \”Sky and water always stay the same,\” Kahn says, \”no matter how well- or ill-behaved we are.\”
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