In the last 12 days, I’ve gotten calls, texts and notes from people asking me “how I am doing?” None of them know I’ve had a cold, they were checking in because they know I am Jewish. And I am not religious or observant, I’m “jew-ish” as my everybody friendly, God optional hippie dippie Rabbi likes to say.
Michael: Your post brought to mind that my late Aunt was visited by the author, Michael Bar-Zohar. His compelling book, "Escaping Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews" details how 50,000 of our brothers and sisters were saved by a flawed King Boris III. How am I? Blessed, but troubled that Donald Trump has managed to unearth so much hate. A psychopath, he is (to borrow from Bruce Springsteen) "a toxic narcissist". My mom wanted to live long enough to see him go to jail for causing an autocracy of prejudice that fuels hatred. But she died last year. Mr. Zohar's book is a reminder that people have a remarkable capacity to hear the truth, and then act with justice as my ancestors did in Sofia.
Michael: Your post brought to mind that my late Aunt was visited by the author, Michael Bar-Zohar. His compelling book, "Escaping Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews" details how 50,000 of our brothers and sisters were saved by a flawed King Boris III. How am I? Blessed, but troubled that Donald Trump has managed to unearth so much hate. A psychopath, he is (to borrow from Bruce Springsteen) "a toxic narcissist". My mom wanted to live long enough to see him go to jail for causing an autocracy of prejudice that fuels hatred. But she died last year. Mr. Zohar's book is a reminder that people have a remarkable capacity to hear the truth, and then act with justice as my ancestors did in Sofia.