After Dinner Conversation: Season Three

Excellent news! "After Dinner Conversation: Season Three" is available to purchase as ebook. An anthology of stories that make you think and question your ethics, it features my short story, "Holy Night." The print version will be available in 7 to 10 days. Click here if you want to purchase the ebook or pre-order the …

Holy Night: After Dinner Conversation

Hey All, I just wanted to announce that my short story, "Holy Night," is available for purchase. It first appeared earlier this month in the After Dinner Conversation Magazine, and is now being released as an ebook. Synopsis: Three Auschwitz prisoners find a contraband bible and have to decide if they are willing to risk …

After Dinner Conversation: October 2020

Last month, I goofed up a little. I thought my short story, “Holy Night” had been released in the September issue of After Dinner Conversation Magazine. I was wrong. It has actually been released this month. So, without further ado… The October 2020 issue of After Dinner Conversation has been released and is available for purchase. Intriguing …

Banned Books Week 2020

Banned Books Week began September 27th and lasts until October 3, 2020. Previously, I posted that one of my favorite Banned Books was “To Kill a Mockingbird.” And that hasn’t changed; “To Kill a Mockingbird” will always hold a special place in my heart. But I have to say, there’s another book I cherish even …

Where Are You, Tola?

Holocaust survivor and USHMM volunteer Julie Keefer is searching for her missing baby sister, Tola. https://youtu.be/nEfjR9UIDRk Here is Julie's essay on her sister: I last held you when you were six months old and I was almost three. It was March 1943, a time of war, Nazis, and unthinkable persecution of our people. To give …

“The Light in Hidden Places,” by Sharon Cameron: Book Review

Amazon Description: The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII -- from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron. One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make...It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been …

After Dinner Conversations: In Love and War – Available Today!

My story "In Love and War," is available for purchase today! If you're interested in buying it, CLICK HERE!

Renia’s Diary: Book Review

Amazon’s Synopsis: The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a …

National Poetry Day

I can't write poetry. I wish I could and I'm jealous of those who can. However, today is National Poetry Day and I am going to post one of my favorite poems. It is by an anonymous Jewish man who scratched his poem on a wall in a cellar in Cologne Concentration Camp. “I believe …

Tikkun Olam

  A couple of weeks ago, I visited the C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Museum. This was the third time I had been there since Eva Mozes Kor, the museum’s founder, passed away. I was able to have a nice tour and take pictures (the previous two times I went, I couldn’t). Much has changed since I was last …