Index

This is a complete list, in chronological order, of the items on the Personal Essays page of this website. If you’d like to find a specific piece on that page, simply copy the title here and paste it into the “find” feature on the Personal Essays page.

9/2015 Leaving Hungary by Train

10/30/2016 Why I Can’t Be Silent

12/15/2016 Yarmulkes and Hijabs

2/15/17 The Rose Street Women and the Women’s March

2/28/17 Kids Are Kids the Whole World Round

11/8/2017 What a Piece of Work is Man – the One Year Anniversary

3/25/2018 The Ann Arbor March for Our Lives Rally

3/30/2018 Parkland and the March for Our Lives

10/30/2018 Pittsburgh

11/25/2018 Thanksgiving Day Open Letter to Dr. Blasey Ford

3/18/2019 Christchurch – Blind Faith

5/31/2019 The St. Louis – 80 Years Ago and Today

6/26/2019 Anniversaries of Resistance

7/19/2019 Fiftieth Anniversary of the Moon Landing

7/31/2019 The Women’s World Cup Champions and the Squad

11/23/2019 Colonel Alex Vindman

1/5/2020 Greta and the Whistleblower

1/27/2020 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

2/13/2020 Dresden: 75 Years Later

3/18/20 Intimations of Mortality

3/29/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories

4/7/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories: Chapter Two

4/19/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories: Chapter Three

4/25/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories: Chapter Four

4/29/20 75th Anniversary of Liberation of Dachau

5/24/20 Coronavirus Memories and Musings: Chapter Five

6/10/20 The Right Hand Does Not Know

6/12/20 Jesse Owens, George Floyd

6/16/20 Anniversary

6/23/20 Call 911?

7/2/20 Hamilton and Fiddler on the Roof

7/15/20 Coronavirus Memories and Musings: Chapter Six

7/23/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories: Chapter Seven

8/12/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories: Chapter Eight

8/21/20 Catch a Falling Star

9/10/20 9/11 Song

9/10/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories: Chapter Nine

9/16/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories: Chapter Ten

10/19/20 Do You Miss Your Homeland?

11/1/2020 When This is All Over

11/18/20 Coronavirus Musings and Memories: Chapter Eleven

12/11/20 Liminal Spaces

12/30/20 Silver Linings

1/11/21 Wednesday Was Our Kristallnacht, Our (Attempted) Lynching

1/20/21 Open Letter to President Joe Biden

2/20/21 It’s the Crime and It’s the Coverup

2/26/21 Perseverance

3/12/21 Tone Deaf

4/8/21 Georgia

6/25/21 It’s Quiet. Yeah, too quiet

7/16/21 Why History?

7/26/21 Why History Part II – The Olympics

9/7/21 Afghanistan and Hungary

11/25/21 Magical Thinking

12/20/21 Oxford

12/31/21 Year End 2021

1/21/22 Hungary and US

1/21/22 Webb Almost There

2/28/22 Ukraine

3/24/22 Ukraine: One Month Later

5/9/22 Mariupol

September 2022 A Moment of Joy

9/20/22 Human Beings Being Humane

10/2/22 Bravo DART

10/10/22 Lizzo and the Flute

10/31/22 All is Fair in Love and War

December 2022 – Fifty Years Since We Last Went to the Moon

12/31/2022 2022 Year End Review

2/23/2023 Anniversaries-Ukraine and the Pandemic

3/29/2023 O Say, Can You Hear

April 2023 The Past Rarely Stays Only in the Past

5/29/23 Hole in the Bucket Day

8/8/23 The Past Rarely Stays in the Past – Part Two

12/31/23 Reason to Hope

1/14/24 A Singer, A Song, and Memories (Written in November 2023. Published in the January issue of The Crazy Wisdom Journal)

5/15/24 My Life Has Been Shaped by Antisemitism (Written January 2024. Published in the spring 2024 issue of Crazy Wisdom Journal

9/1/24 Three Generations of Fathers. (Written June 2024-Published in the Fall issue of the Crazy Wisdom Journal.)

12/24/24 Coincidence, Compassion, Competence and Courage (Written September 2024-Published in the Winter 2025 issue of the Crazy Wisdom Journal.)

1/1/2025 End of Year 2024

1/20/2025

1/27/2025 Open Letter to Bishop Budde

2/17/25 Two Jews, Three Opinions

4/26/25 The Significance of a Single Life

5/6/25 Guilt, Judgement & Forgiveness (Written January 2025-Published in the Spring 2025 issue of Crazy Wisdom Journal)

6/14/25 No Metaphor is Perfect

7/24/25 I Read the News Today

8/21/25 Presidential Fitness

9/3/25 Leaders and Followers (Written June 2025-Published in the Fall 2025 issue of Crazy Wisdom Journal)

9/30/25 Sandy Koufax & My Father (I wrote this piece about two decades ago. I thought of it now because the Detroit Tigers have had me thinking a great deal about baseball of late. I added the postscript because the piece also resonated for me with our current leaders attitude regarding integrity.)

12/22/25 End of the Year 2025

1/1/2026 Everybody Carries a World (Written in October 2026 – Published in the January 2026 issue of the Crazy Wisdom Magazine.)