Cat Haven: Friends of Cats
In East County, there is place that welcomes all cats, no matter the age or condition. Friends of Cats in El Cajon is a haven for kittens, adult and senior cats, FIV positive cats...
Venezuela’s Military Makes a Political Intervention
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has granted sweeping political powers to Defense Minister Gen. Vladimir Padrino Lopez. In a public announcement on July 11, the president said that all government ministries would be subordinated to...
Behaving Like A Robot With Other People
In writing about the effects of modern technology on human behavior, there has been a focus in this column on how modern technology directly affects the user. How does the experience of the...
How we are seen (Jews according the 700 Club)
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Lest any Jew forgets – because of all the violence directed at us, the hatred, the incitement to kill, the vile words, the missiles, the rockets, the knives, the rocks, the deafening silence of...
The Humble Nobility of Elie Wiesel
It begins in a world now gone, lying at the borders of Ruthenia, Bukovina and Galicia, forgotten places that were the glory of the Habsburg Empire and of European Judaism. Seventy years later, all...
Rescuing Baja Dogs
Life for dogs in Mexico is not very good, except for the lucky ones who have responsible owners. There are so many street dogs roaming about! These street dogs have a very poor quality...
How Elie Wiesel inspired the Free Soviet Jewry movement
On my bookshelves there are two rows of volumes on the Soviet Jewry movement. Squeezed in among the tomes is a small, well-worn paperback with pages no longer attached to the spine, “The Jews...
Wiesel: De Auschwitz a Disneylandia
Wiesel: De Auschwitz a Disneylandia, una viuda expresada en Yiddish:
El alma de Wiesel, como la de muchos intelectuales judíos, se expresa y entiende mejor en Yiddish, la lengua que, por algún motivo permite niveles...
Elie Wiesel’s Phrases for Reflection
"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
(Interview with U.S. News and World Report, 1986)
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides....
That Time a Jewess Joined the Daughters of the American Revolution
Abigail Minis was a widow, in her eighties and Jewish, but that didn’t stop her from doing her part to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. She put her skills and resources as...