Bob and I had an unusual bond. We were both folk singers, but as friends, each knew the other had a weakness for the music of Buddy Holly. I was from Texas and knew Buddy, so Bob and I had lots to talk about. Our other passion was this new musical adventure.
The recent tragic hurricanes in the South have been difficult to watch.
It has only been in recent months that I\’ve found the courage to speak to some of my Jewish and non-Jewish friends within the Palestinian solidarity community, and the broader anti-globalization/anti-war movement, about the difficulties I have experienced as a Jew within that movement. And to name that experience: anti-Jewish racism, or Judeophobia.
A 99-year-old Jehovah\’s Witness who survived Nazi persecution has been touring the United States and giving people a face to put on the usually obscure story of the estimated 2,000 Jehovah\’s Witnesses killed in the Holocaust.
Early in the Nazi regime, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a rising young Protestant minister and theologian, was asked by his twin sister to speak at the funeral of her Jewish husband.\n\nBonhoeffer consulted his church superiors and refused. Later, tormented by his decision, he asked himself, \”How could I have been so afraid? I should have behaved differently.\”\n\nIt was perhaps the only time that Bonhoeffer\’s natural human fear trumped his moral courage in fighting the Nazi ideology, a stand for which he finally paid with his life.\n\nThe acts and religious beliefs of perhaps the most principled German Protestant voice during the Hitler era are woven together in the 90-minute documentary, \”Bonhoeffer,\” opening Oct. 10 at two Laemmle theaters.
After President Bush\’s late July meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, one thing is clear: Ariel Sharon no longer will have things all his own way in Washington.
Jana Rosenblatt\’s founding partners in Five Chicks Unlimited are four local businesswomen who have been touched by cancer. They bring expertise in finance, product research, Web design and customer service to the site.
As The Journal went to press last week, word came that terrorist kidnappers in Pakistan had brutally murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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