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Candle & Chronicle May 2026
April was a full month for Teach the Shoah. Across Yom HaShoah programs and community gatherings, our storytellers carried survivor stories into classrooms, synagogues, community centers, and homes. May has been quieter, but the work has not stopped. [Redirects to MailChimp]
Before and After
In December of 2025, after many months of resisting, my mother quietly passed away as I held her. Gone after 98 resilient and powerful years. I retired in August 2020, when she was 93, as she needed more care and support. I saw she was fading, and I knew that her...
Thoughts of a Teller: Bomb Shelter version
There is something unexpected about the community that forms in a bomb shelter, about the stories that are told, the stories that are requested, and the conversations that ensue. Saturday morning Sirens: war has started. We sit in the shelter. Everyone looks very...
Candle & Chronicle May 2026
April was a full month for Teach the Shoah. Across Yom HaShoah programs and community gatherings, our storytellers carried survivor stories into classrooms, synagogues, community centers, and homes. May has been quieter, but the work has not stopped. [Redirects to MailChimp]
Before and After
In December of 2025, after many months of resisting, my mother quietly passed away as I held her. Gone after 98 resilient and powerful years. I retired in August 2020, when she was 93, as she needed more care and support. I saw she was fading, and I knew that her...
Thoughts of a Teller: Bomb Shelter version
There is something unexpected about the community that forms in a bomb shelter, about the stories that are told, the stories that are requested, and the conversations that ensue. Saturday morning Sirens: war has started. We sit in the shelter. Everyone looks very...
Candle & Chronicle June 2026
One of the challenges of a distributed community is that it can be difficult to see the whole picture. As we find ourselves in the middle of the year, it’s worth stepping back and looking at what they add up to. [Redirects to MailChimp]
A Lesson in Empathy
I have heard many positive things said by participants after a storytelling presentation. Some of the most memorable comments, however, have come from high school students. At a recent program at a public high school near my home in the Dallas area, we not only shared...
Candle & Chronicle April 2026
In recent months, I have had the opportunity to sit with survivors as they hear their stories told back to them. It is a remarkable moment in which we see a quiet yet profound shift. What has been lived by one person is now being held, carefully and responsibly, by another. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
The Heart of the Story
Every story about the Holocaust has a survivor at its heart. That sounds ridiculous on the surface, but it’s true. And it’s why I can tell (and hear) these stories repeatedly despite the emotional reaction each one brings. Allow me to explain. Many of the stories we...
L’Dor v’Dor
Zachor – Remember. This word appears almost 200 times in the Torah. Over and over again, we are commanded to remember. We are commanded to remember that which makes us holy (the Sabbath). We are commanded to remember that which makes us who we are (the Torah). And we...
Optimism and Resiliency
This week I told my father's story to several classes of tenth graders at a local high school. My father, his parents, and his younger sister left Germany in 1933 to move to Czechoslovakia only to be living under Nazi rule once again in 1939. Through luck, courage,...
Lesaper: Lessons in Rebuilding, Hope, and Resilience
When I initially decided to pursue a fellowship through Teach the Shoah, I did so with the intention of learning more about public history. I felt understanding history’s utility outside of academia would benefit me. I did not expect to learn anything new about myself...
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