As if you couldn’t tell from the name (The Wailing Wall, also known as the Western Wall, is the holy remnant of an ancient temple in Israel, long a place of pilgrimage and prayer for Jews and, according to some, the site of the gates of heaven), the music of The Wailing Wall ...
NEAR AUSCHWITZ, JEWS RECLAIM A PLACE SYNAGOGUE REOPENS WHERE A COMMUNITY THRIVED BEFORE WWIIBrian Whitmore, Globe Correspondent
By far the coolest story we heard was happened during WWII. Sarajevo is called “Little Jerusalem” for a reason. For a very long time, Muslims,Jewsand Christians lived in peace together here. During WWII, Hitler was very interested in destroying any and all books/artifacts that were Jewish...
Slavery is no longer economically viable. Free the Slaves. Progress. But what did that actually mean? Yes, suddenly we had a large population of African-Americans who were no longer enslaved, but whom had none of the wealth of this nation they were so vital a part of its building.“Give...
Did he not eat enough during the day? Did he skip dinner? Or did he dine on a dinner of cheeseburgers and THEN needed one more burger for bed? IS THIS HIS VERSION OF MY MOM’S ‘ONE MORE DRINK BEFORE BED’ HABIT??? I’d ask if he accidentally had dropped it on Melania, but ...
Hungary has a very difficult past. The country was under real communism after WWII, you couldn’t mention certain people’s names and if you did the special police would arrest you, no protests or speaking out against the government, no ownership of businesses…so of course the people revolt...
The musician did morning drive during the KACE "Quiet Storm" programming. Mike is leader of America’s premier Black Cowboy band, “Mike Mann and the Night Riders, the group performs original blend of country and soul, which Mike has dubbed “Cowboy Soul.” ...
Present: “If you lead your life as Morrie did, with people as the priority, making memories, giving of yourself, then when you die, you’re not really gone. You live inside the hearts of everyone you’ve ever touched.” What are three words you would use to describe your character...
I remember walking across a bridge in Germany into France. There was shopping. My German hosts seemed put off by my wanting to walk across the river. I asked them if they did. They said never. The also said that French people didn’t walk across into Germany. It was very rare. Someth...
Today, I look to what Adorno’s thoughts were after anti-semitism had its run through Germany, destroyed the country, and annihilated millions of Jews. How did it germinate, so to speak, in Germany? One thought that came to me is that what we are seeing right now with paranoia on socia...