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Eighty-Six Years Ago, My Father Found Home

Posted on December 7, 2025 by 34orion

Today marks the eighty-sixth anniversary of my father’s arrival in the United States. In our family we treated the date like a small holiday. Maybe it didn’t have the sparkle of Hanukkah, Christmas, or the cluster of December birthdays in … Continue reading →

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Trump: Dementia, Felon, or Huckster? The Sanity-Saving Game for Dozy Don’s Daily Circus

Posted on November 16, 2025 by 34orion

I used to be a news junkie. It was a habit I inherited straight from my parents. My father would practically read the ink off the New York Times every morning—not every article, maybe, but every section. It was how … Continue reading →

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We Have Forgotten: A Minor Memorandum on the 87th Anniversary of Kristallnacht.

Posted on November 9, 2025 by 34orion

For the better part of the last twenty years, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, I have published my father’s “A Minor Memorandum to My Children on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Kristallnacht: November 9 and 10, 1938.” He wrote it for … Continue reading →

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