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KOLOT: A Yom Hashoah Legacy
By Allan Chernoff “Mit a harts ful mit tsar”— “With my heart full of sadness”— began Zalman Mlotek’s eulogy to a crowd of more than 600 mourners. The artistic director… Read more
KOLOT: From Holyn To Hollywood: The Ziering Family Reunion
By Bob Liftig Kalush is a city set in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of what is now western Ukraine, formerly Poland, then Austria,… Read more
KOLOT: Saving FACEBOOK
By Rabbi Stephen Lewis Fuchs “Rabbi Fuchs to Have Open Heart Surgery,” read a late-June 1996 headline on the first page of the local news section of The Nashville Banner…. Read more
KOLOT: Study of Quiescence
By Bonny Thompson Enes Fleece white silence coats the south side of naked knotted oak trees, red house and barn. Blanketed schist stone walls run squares and rectangles throughout this… Read more
KOLOT: Study in Quiescence
By Bonny Thompson Enes Fleece white silence coats the south side of naked knotted oak trees, red house and barn. Blanketed schist stone walls run squares and rectangles throughout this… Read more
KOLOT: The Sar-el experience
By Harry Weller When rockets were raining down on Israel last November, many people wanted to do something tangible to show their support. I, for one, wanted to do more… Read more
KOLOT Beauty Queen
By Charlotte “Blu” Berman In the early l900’s when Eastern European Jewish immigrants swamped the streets of New York City’s lower east side, my great uncle Schmuel Schwartz, later know… Read more
KOLOT: In the Aftermath of Newtown
By Rabbi Mordechai Weiss The small town of Newtown where recently the horrific shooting of twenty children took place raised several questions: What kind of a society are we a… Read more
KOLOT: Rediscovering the tzedakah box
By Harold Levine I have just completed a rather unscientific survey of 10 Jewish families in the Westport area. I asked the parents in each family whether they recalled the… Read more
KOLOT: The Morning After
By Onnie Shiffmiller Our car had been stolen a few weeks earlier and on Thursday, Nov. 15 we were notified that the car was found in Jaffa. I was told… Read more
