Jackie Golblum
I’ve grown up in synagogues all my life. As a young girl, Temple Beth Emet, in Anaheim, California was where I went to Hebrew school and had my bat mitzvah […]
Can we all be like Anna who by age 20 did more for humanity than most of us have done in their entire lifetime? Her story so powerful, so profound! […]
Preparing for this trip a lot of questions went through my mind. Two days in and it still swims with optimistic uncertainty. I’ve been blessed with a great opportunity. There […]
Today I went on a Warsaw Urban Walking Tour with Avi, one of our brilliant scholars in residence, who is teaching us on this journey. It’s hard to put into […]
Once the “Jerusalem of Lithuania,” Vilnius lost nearly all its 80,000 Jews in the Holocaust. Now home to about 2,000, it struggles to sustain Jewish life, yet preserves its rich […]
How do so few people make such a sound? The Helsinki Jewish community totals less than a1,000 yet its presence is palpable. As we discovered, the Jewish school, which serves […]
In the smallest of communities we saw life. At their synagogue, in their JCC and across theircity, Tallinners are creating a Jewish future. This pursuit, which Estonians exhibited, is evidencethat […]
In Vilnius, our guide called parks “scars of war.” The playgrounds we saw, where children descended colorful slides and adults gathered onnearby benches, were erected after the war. In some […]
Before leaving Lithuania we stopped at the Samuel Bak Museum and Ponevezh Yeshiva. Thepairing could not have been more perfect. At the Museum, we learned Bak was recognized early on […]
Stairs are a place to climb. Yet the staircase inside the Sugihara House forces you down, andaround, before reaching its point. Initially, the structure feels similar to many residential stairwells. […]