June/July 2016
- One of Dachau’s last living liberators still has somewhere to beATLANTA — Hilbert “Hibby” Margol wears two watches. It is the kind of detail that seems small until you can’t stop noticing it. One watch is ordinary. It has hands, numbers, the plain mechanics of telling time. The other is a Life Alert, the sort of device sold to people who live alone, or to... […]
- 250 years of American Jewish life is a miracle. Don’t take it for granted.When I moved from Belgium to the United States for graduate school in the early 2000s, international-student orientation warned me about three areas in which I would experience culture shock: doctors, dating, and food. They were right: I am still looking for good chocolate. But what nobody mentioned was that culture shock can also work... […]