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‘And God said to Noah, ‘Come into the teiva, you and all your household’” (Gen. 7:1). The teiva – the ark – is one of the defining images of the parasha: a vessel of refuge carrying Noah, his family, and the living creatures through the waters...
On the eve of Sukkot, I find myself not in Jerusalem but in Kissimmee, Florida, in a gated vacation home community called Encore at Reunion. Our youngest grandchild, Ye’ela, now seven, has convinced her family that it’s her turn to visit...
Renate Quastler kept a tantalizing and expensive secret. She never told her family about the illustrated diary begun as a young girl in wartime Japan. Yet she never threw it away, either. Renate was born in Stuttgart in 1933, the same year...
Before the refugees began arriving, Tokyo already had a small community of European Jews established in business and professional life. Among them were Ernst Baerwald, Heinrich Steinfeld, and Hans Alexander Straus. Baerwald had been in...
Nobody set out looking for Willy Rudolf Foerster. Dr. Clemens Jochem certainly didn’t. His curiosity began much closer to home in Hamburg, with questions about his own German family and what had brought some of them to Shanghai during World...
