Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a “stand still” kind of person. I don’t stand in one place for a long time. I don’t think about one thing for a long time. And I certainly don’t like standing still because I am boxed in. Perhaps it is related to how my father taught me to …
As I write this column, I have just returned from the 2016 AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. It was an amazing experience being with over 18,000 pro-Israel activists learning and lobbying for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. We had 46 Lehigh Valley delegates and 16 students from …
There are not too many things I miss not holding onto from my youth. One of those was my Anatoly Sharansky bracelet from high school. The bracelet was part of the Free Soviet Jewry solidarity movement. I had a bracelet for Sharansky and Ida Nudel. They were Prisoners of Zion, prisoners of co…
A few weeks ago our Jewish community was rocked by several notable deaths. This column is neither a eulogy nor obituary, but an attempt to sort out two lives of incredible merit and inspiration.
I am still thinking through what it is like without Stan Wax and Regina Brenner. They were bot…
Normally December is filled with Christmas advertising. But this year it was “trumped” by competition. I could easily make the case that Christmas hype was overtaken by political debates, campaigning and the political pundits in the pre-primary season of the U.S. presidential drama. But …
