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 | Apr 20, 2016 | Article
In July 1996, the Consul General of Israel presented Lucia Weitzman with a plaque recognizing her adoptive parents, Genowefa and Franciszek Swiatek as “Righteous Among the Nations” for their heroism during the Holocaust. Their names were added to the Wall of Honor in...
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...
