Peter Braun

Born in Prague; former Skokie resident

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Dec 29, 2021, 1:22 AM

Better Respecting Secular Jews and Ultra-Religious Jews

I need to again return to my having been called a toenail by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man. I was at a fundraiser and he spoke to the crowd. I thought Chabad always reaches out to the less religious. I...

Jun 10, 2020, 9:29 PM

A Little about Racism and God

After college, I used to have Friday night Shabbat dinners at a local Chabad House near my college. I remember the rabbi referring to black people as Schvartzes and to non-Jews as Goyim. Those terms sounded pretty derogatory and condescending to me....

Jun 2, 2020, 7:58 PM

The Total Idealism and Fairness of Sports

The Idealism and Fairness of Sports - and Why I Love the Draft Recently, I have watched two documentaries by Robert Reich, our former Secretary of Labor, on widening income inequality in America. CEO pay and corporate executive pay keeps...

May 27, 2020, 12:02 AM

Equality or The Relativity of Happiness

Equality or The Relativity of Happiness I once took a class on relativity. I wonder if there is also a psychological and happiness relativity factor. Are people as a whole lot more equal than we think? On a humorous level, while...

May 16, 2020, 1:37 AM

My Hebrew School Rant

Today, I just want to rant, about something that kept me up last night. I wish to rant about my Hebrew School days. In about 4th grade, I went to Hebrew School at an Orthodox Temple in Skokie, even though we...

Apr 25, 2020, 6:50 PM

Make Israel a True Melting Pot – a Mini America?

Good or Bad Idea for Israel? More immigration of Non-Jews… As an American, one of the things I love most about the US is its diversity. Yes, there are millions of White Anglo Saxon Protestants in America; but we also...

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About Me

Born in Prague of the Czech Republic. Moved to the U.S. in 1968, during the Czech Spring. The son of two Holocaust Survivors, orphans, who worked in healthcare or science. I have a brother who is a Klezmer musician in Chicago. I studied creative writing during college at Northwestern University in Evanston. For my career, I have mainly worked in IT, as a desktop publisher, database publisher, and intranet web publisher. For writing, I have written user manuals, help files, and training manuals.