by Mitchell Weitzman | Feb 11, 2017 | Mitchell's Blog
Angry at The World: Asking Why and How Did The Holocaust Happen? In my sheltered, comfortable suburban Detroit childhood, I shouldn’t have been so angry. Neighbors looked a lot like my family: White, Jewish, middle or upper middle class and striving for more. Kids...
by Mitchell Weitzman | Jul 16, 2016 | Mitchell's Blog
Have you ever wondered about the headlines on the day that carries the news of your passing? If you could see them, would you be uplifted? Surprised? Apathetic? Upset? I thought about this last week when I read The New York Times on Sunday, July 3, 2016. The paper ran...
by Mitchell Weitzman | May 4, 2016 | Mitchell's Blog
Holocaust Remembrance Day/Yom HaShoah, May 5, 2016. Jews and others will gather in synagogues, community centers, schools, and other venues to remember those lost in the Holocaust, and to decry the intolerance and hate that enabled the tragedy. “Never again” will be a...
by Mitchell Weitzman | Apr 22, 2016 | Lucia's Blog
Adapted from the pages of The Rose Temple: A Child Holocaust Survivor’s Vision of Faith, Hope, and Our Collective Future, to be published in May 2016. Three days before Passover in 2008, Lucia Weitzman dreamt that a golden eagle descended from the sky and embraced her...
by Mitchell Weitzman | Mar 31, 2016 | Mitchell's Blog, Mitchell's Ongoing Journey
Standing on the shoreline at Ocean City, Maryland, cool sand brushing against my feet, the ocean currents soothing my senses, I contemplated the wonder of nature. I was alone on this cold, late March morning, having risen at sunrise to capture this moment. It was...