by Jack Moline | May 24, 2022 | Opinion
Most adults in the United States remember a close relative who was not born here. My family emigrated from the region alternately claimed by Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Yours may have come from Italy, Morocco, Guatemala, Ghana. Namira Islam Anani’s family came from...
by Jack Moline | Apr 14, 2022 | Opinion
My wife and I may be the only family to have designed a home around two consecutive nights each year. We have always taken seriously the declaration of the Passover seder – all who are hungry, come and eat; all who need to do so, come and partake of the Passover...
by Jack Moline | Mar 22, 2022 | Opinion
I love listening to “This American Life,” just like a lot of America. It may not be the original podcast, but when the term “podcast” was invented, the radio show was already one. I have my favorite episodes – the telephone booth on a cliff in Japan where people call...
by Jack Moline | Feb 22, 2022 | Opinion
I am now the oldest person in my immediate family, which is to say my mother died last year. My father is gone more than 30 years, cheated out of most of the rewards of being a grandparent. My mother was more fortunate. She saw her three children and seven...
by Jack Moline | Jan 24, 2022 | Opinion
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the United Nations to commemorate the deaths of six million Jews and three million others at the hands of the Nazi murder machine during World War II. The date designated, Jan. 27, is the anniversary of the...
