For We Were Strangers

“From generation to generation, each person should consider themselves personally liberated from Egypt.” For we were all strangers in the land of Egypt. In 1934, my grandmother was becoming a stranger in a land she no longer recognized, living in Berlin under Nazi rule. As a young child of 11, she was still allowed to…

A Message of Hope for Israel’s Future

­­I was not born into a Zionist home. When Israel became a country in 1948 m­y grandparents in Cleveland left the Synagogue where Zionist Abba Hillel Silver was the rabbi and went to a new synagogue because they worried that if the Jews had a home, America would expel them much like the Germans. When…