My sisters and I called her “Ma.”She stood 4-foot-10, yet was looked up to by everyone who encountered her, regardless of their station in life: rabbis and educators, bankers, customers and neighbors, her lifelong friends and people who just met her...
This is the week we in Israel remember.We remember the six million who, perished in the Holocaust, we remember the soldiers who died defending the country, we remember the citizens killed in terrorist attacks. We then switch over in a matter of seconds...
Do you love to travel? Explore history? Find fun new places to eat? Enjoy a relaxing atmosphere? Take in a winery or two or more? Stay in a special B&B? Relish spectacular views? What do you love to do and experience? This must sound...
I understand that that many people don’t see the personal relevance of anything that happens at the Supreme Court. So, when I say that the world of constitutional law was rocked recently, bear with me.Last week, the United States Supreme Court heard...
St. Louis, along with numerous U.S. and Israeli cities, observed Yom Hashoah, the “Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust” this past week. Signed into formal law by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1953, it is a yearly reminder for each of us to...
Richard Hofstadter’s famous 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” long has been associated with the threat posed by the far right. However, Hofstadter started the essay by writing that “American politics has often been an arena...
Editor’s note: The following is adapted from a speech given at the Jewish Light’s recent Annual Meeting.I am excited and humbled by this opportunity to be president of the Board of Trustees of the St. Louis Jewish Light. My parents, Paul and Diane...
In a few days, J Street U Wash U will be hosting an exhibition on the Washington University campus produced by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli organization. It is led by veteran Israeli Defense Forces soldiers who work to share their experiences of everyday...
(JTA) — This week, the State of Israel’s comptroller sharply criticized the government for neglecting the intense poverty of many of the state’s elderly Holocaust survivors.Like the sirens that will blare Monday in Israel on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust...
When I was in graduate school in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon’s administration was entangled in the vast web of deceit that we have long known as Watergate.In 1973 and 1974, I worked part-time at the Kansas City Star’s...
My clients and friends often give me books and articles on career management. There is a plethora of such materials and they tend to vary widely in practicality and general usefulness. However, a recent gift was a winner, and it wasn’t even on career...
Whether you are already retired or thinking about the possibility, can you envision a full and fulfilling retirement, that retirement you have worked so hard for all your life, that retirement you deserve? Bob Brauer can.Bob lives in Millburn, New Jersey,...
