After my experience at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, I was apprehensive about visiting the Jewish Museum in Berlin. This, I thought, is something they will have to get right. After all, Berlin was Hitler’s capital city, the place where leaders managed the bureaucratic tasks ... Read More
The Unseen Western Wall
Jerusalem, July 29, 2014 I just made the mistake of watching the BBC news, and it was, yet again, full of “They started it!” “No, they started it!” (See my post “Toddlers in a Sandbox.”) So I’m just going to ignore the situation and get back to writing about Jerusalem tourism. The ... Read More
French Anti-Semitism
Visiting World War II sites made me think about the Nazis, of course, which made me think of the Holocaust, which made me think of anti-Semitism as it still exists in Europe. And that made me think of an incident – one of very few times in my life when I’ve experienced anti-Semitism firsthand – ... Read More
