Tag: Nazi
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
It’s National Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… Historically, it never ends well for Jews. I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away.…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away. I grew up in the 1960’s & 1970’s in a Jewish suburb…
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What You Laugh At (And Who With) Defines You
The new SNL season premiered last night — and aside from Kanye West’s strange performances (culminating in his MAGA-hat-wearing finale number) was, start to finish, terrific. Here in my house, we laughed a lot. We were laughing, in part, cathartically. We needed to laugh as a way to release the incredible tension. But the laughter…