Holocaust Remembrance Day!

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A day to learn from and remember the past and the violent attack on the United States Capital, and acknowledge the fact that Antisemitism and Racism continue to grow in the United States and other countries around the world. Read the following article Below is…

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“I am a Hebrew” written by my father Alexander I. Newman (of blessed memory)

My father’s essay “Ivre Anoche”—”I am a Hebrew” came to mind, yesterday, as the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Army in 1945 and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The essay was written in 1938 before the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler’s systematic “Final Solution” (1933-1945) were widely…

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Do you know what racism feels like?

How many of us know what racism feels like? We may understand what racism is. However, do we actually know that feeling of racism, which is hatred,  prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior? I know what racism feels like. I…

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