You can’t always judge a book by its cover
You’re waiting in line at the grocery store a few weeks before Passover. Your cart is filled with matza, gefilte fish, kosher wine and horseradish. The gentleman in front of you has a similarly filled cart and you strike up a conversation. Aren’t matza prices high this year? How can a young family afford to be Jewish these days. Your time passes pleasantly and when the clerk finishes ringing up his order, you wish each other a kosher Pesach and say goodbye.
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Change report from the front lines:
Jewish recovering alcoholic shares her story
Have you heard the one about the Jewish alcoholic? No, you haven’t. Why not? They don’t exist, you say. Allow me to introduce Mimi Weiss, a Jew, a recovering alcoholic and a Seattle resident.
That’s probably not how Mimi would introduce herself. She would also mention her age, 70, her psychotherapy practice, and her work as a singer, speaker and trainer for corporations and nonprofits, focusing on communication, conflict resolution and finding a spiritual base for your work. But our recent discussion focused on her experience as a recovering alcoholic and prescription drug abuser — 19 years of being clean and sober — and how she accomplished that change in her life.
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Hadassah magazine: November 2002 Vol. 84 No.3
The Arts: Producing the Sounds of Silence
A Seattle-based orchestra is researching works from the Holocaust, giving new life to musicians whose days, and careers, were cut short.
Composer Gideon Klein was in his mid-20’s in 1939 and seeing the first signs of career success. He was working on a new piece, “Duo for Violin and Cello,” when his journey toward becoming a world-renowned composer stopped, literally, in mid-phrase. Klein never finished the piece because he was taken away by Nazi soldiers to the Terezin concentration camp. “Duo for Violin and Cello” miraculously survived the Holocaust, though its composer did not. Since 1998 Klein’s work and that of other musicians who died in the camps have been given new life, thanks to Music of Remembrance. The five-year-old Seattle-based nonprofit arts organization uses musical performances, educational programs and, most recently, recordings as a way of encouraging people to remember the Holocaust. “Music is very powerful in stimulating our emotions and images,” says Mina Miller, MOR’s founder and artistic director. “In many ways it helps us approach something that is quite intangible.”
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