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“Tenderness”
“Tenderness” There is a southern black woman, about two generations after slavery, who figures as the heroine in a novel by Zora Neale Hurston. In the scene from which the lines below are taken, she has met a man who … Continue reading
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Tagged "Five Variations on the Theme of Japanese Painting", "Leo's Orphans: A Survivor's Musings on the Power of Protective Tenderness", "Their Eyes Were Watching God", 613 mitzvot, Abigail L. Rosenthal, American novel, awareness, black women, Christian clergy, Christianity, commandments, conflict resolution, conformism, evidence, Exodus, heroine, injuries, interfaith, Israelites, Japan, Jewish observance, judgementalism, Leo Bronstein, living the moment, Maimonides, marital relations, mindfulness, Nazi genocide, novel, Passover, past lives, peer pressure, Rabbi, Reform Judaism, reincarnation, Shoah, shunning, slavery, Terror, The South, unleavened bread, Yom ha Shoah, zen, Zora Neale Hurston
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“Beyond Recovery”
“Beyond Recovery” I’ve been reading a book with the rather haunting title, Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust. The author, Yonassan Gershom, is a rabbi who is well versed in the kabbalistic, mystical strain within Judaism. His … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, archetypes, Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust, cancer, concentration camp tattoos, gang rape, gas chambers, genocide, Jews and Gentiles, Kabbalah, memory, mystical, past life, philosophers, post-traumatic stress, Rabbi, radiation treatment, recovery, reincarnation, safety, Shoah, the new anti-Semitism, theologians, therapy, trauma, treatment for trauma, universal consciousness, World War II, Yonassan Gershom, Zeitgeist, Zyklon B
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“Anne Frank”
“Anne Frank” What a triumph that girl brought off! Through her unassuming, young girl’s diary, the whole world came to share the sorrows and the innocence of the persecuted Jewish people. Identifying with her was not difficult. At the time of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, anti-semitism, coming of age, Holocaust, Jewish, memoir, Shoah
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