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...
by Mitchell Weitzman | Mar 18, 2016 | Mitchell's Blog, Tikkun Olam
In an opinion piece this last Friday, political columnist Charles Krauthammer extracted a Bernie Sanders answer to a question in Michigan’s Democratic debate which serves not as a springboard discussing politics, but as a foundation for assessing the state of Jewish...
by Mitchell Weitzman | Dec 11, 2015 | Mitchell's Blog
Book Review ofThe Bridge Builder: The Life and Continuing Legacy of Rabbi Yechiel Epstein As portrayed in an “authorized biography” by Zev Chavets, an American-Israeli author and columnist, Rabbi Yechiel Epstein is a driven, courageous, and complex figure. He is the...