I remember the absence of sound,
deeper than silence
and more lonely,
like the moment just
before Creation,
all stretched and
attenuated, waiting,
except there was no time
to measure
eternity,
so waiting was
Now.
I wait for God to
say my name,
so that I will
Cafe Spindel is a quaint café in the center of Bad Segeberg, Germany that used to house a wool-processing factory. Because it was an unseasonably warm and sunny late summer day when I visited, our host, Pastor Martin Pommerening, suggested we sit outside.
The
On Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2015 (Yom HaShoah), the entire Jewish community mourns the tragic loss of life, the genocide that occurred during World War II, which resulted in the death of an estimated six million Jews.
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PBS’ new six-part series Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler premiered on December 16th, 2014. ReformJudaism.org caught up with Feiler, who is the author of six consecutive bestsellers, including Walking the Bible, and writes the "This Life" column for the Sunday New York Times. Here's what he had to say about Sacred Journeys
Recently I read about a newly published book that lists every single one of the six million people killed during the Holocaust.
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"We were friends, I thought. And here she was with the others in the mob!”
As you enter the new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, you see an image of lovely young girls dressed up for a dance class in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, in 1935-1936.
We took advantage of our empty nest status to take a week-long trip to Spain this month, the first time in almost 20 years that we could travel at a time when schools weren’t on vacation. In Toledo, we have been staying in a delightful small hotel called La
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Together, we will champion the lessons of Passover by bringing greater wholeness, justice, and belonging to our world.