Human Interest
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The Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz 82 years ago. Approximately 440,000 Jews were sent during the deadliest period in Auschwitz’s existence, with thousands gassed and cremated daily. Dr. Mengele took a particularly sadistic pleasure in selecting Jews for the gas chambers and crematorium on the High Holidays, specifically targeting religious Jews for death on […]
Current
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What happens to us when we die? Is death the end or a new beginning? In the twenty-first century we still can only rely on faith rather than scientific findings to give us insight into the final end of our journey here on earth. But a fascinating new Israeli study may reveal part of the […]
Decades ago, my father, Rabbi Dovid Schochet, was asked to lecture to a group of Jewish and non-Jewish participants in Buffalo. He decided to focus his lecture on the theme of charity, due to its universal application to both Jews and gentiles. My father began with the following story. A wealthy individual who never contributed […]
In 1965, Homer and Melva lived next door to us on Hampton Boulevard, in the naval town of Norfolk. Homer and Dad went way back. They’d been in the same fraternity at William & Mary, played college pranks together, and were as close as two men could be. I don’t know if it was a […]
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Do some people become religious to escape life rather than face it? And what would you do if your child told you they no longer believed in God?
