In the world to come I shall not be asked, ‘Why were you not Moses?’ I shall be asked, ‘Why were you not Zusya?’Rabbi Zusya

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  • Rising From The Ashes

    The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has just published sketches which were done by a prisoner at the Birkenau extermination camp somewhere around 1943-44. The sketches are very precise including the badge number of guards or numbered plates of trucks. The scenes they depict are heart wrenching like children being separated from their parents, guards smoking near…

  • Another Look at Termites

    Our culture doesn’t like termites. We associate them with being destructive and exterminate them. As much as our attitude is based in reality, compared to what they’re beginning to do with termites in Africa, it may reflect a certain bias. Termites, as well as ants, are used to improve crop yield. Given the one billion…

  • In a Civilized Country

    Anders Behring Breivik as we have all heard killed 77 people in Norway last Summer. He has been undergoing psychiatric evaluation. The two psychiatrists who examined him have found him to have paranoid schizophrenic psychosis. But several forensic psychiatrists disagree believing that he suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder. They question the diagnosis of mental…

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