DEPENDING ON her mood, Abramson’s rationale for her line of work can vary. “I was very heavily bathed in the backwash of the Holocaust,” she says. “And I was paranoid that by being Jewish, they’d get me. When I realized who ‘they’ were--namely Germany or a bad government--...
“My grandparents were Holocaust survivors; my grandmother talked about it often, but my grandfather did not. The Anti-Defamation League became an important cause for me because it’s geared toward helping any group that’s being persecuted. Growing up as...
The two big speakers at the recent General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in New Orleans were Vice-President Joe Biden, who told the crowd, as he has been telling Jewish crowds for years, that “I feel absolutely certain our support for Israel must continue forever.” ...