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 | Mar 16, 2016 | Mitchell's Blog, Mitchell's Ongoing Journey
On Sunday night, “Son of Saul,” a work of fiction set in 1944 at the very real Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A unique aspect of this Holocaust film is its focus (literally its camera lens) on a single...
by Mitchell Weitzman | Dec 11, 2015 | Mitchell's Blog
This review might have had a very different tone if I were in middle school, a girl—or a Palestinian. I chose to read Where the Streets Had A Name, published in 2008 by Randa Abdel-Fattah, because I am in the process of writing a middle-grade/young adult allegory...
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...
