Harvey Meirovich, at The Blogs

Oct 31, 2023, 7:14 PM

In the collective memory of the Jewish people, the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, in Ukraine, depicts the city’s Jews going “as sheep to the slaughter” (Isaiah 53:7). Kishinev was home to 125,000 people, half of whom were Jewish. After...

Apr 6, 2020, 8:15 PM

What the Coronavirus Might Teach Us

How we try to make sense of what is happening to us and around us depends on how we choose to connect the dots, the personal experiences of our journey. Two illustrations from Jewish tradition make the point: In...

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I am a former dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary and retired faculty member at the Schechter Institute. Currently, I am a visiting professor Jewish studies at the Zecharias Frankel College at the School of Jewish Theology, University of Potsdam.