Leonard Felson3 minMissing My Dad’s YahrzeitWhen my shul closed during the pandemic, I lost the place where I usually commemorate my father’s death and say Kaddish for him Tablet...
Leonard Felson3 minThe Most Important Holocaust Story Never ToldA new film tells the tale of Emanuel Ringelblum’s ‘Oyneg Shabes’ Archive, a trove of hidden materials that documented life in the Warsaw...
Leonard Felson7 minSeeing God at Yankee StadiumWhen I caught a foul ball at a baseball game, I felt the divine presence—and it changed my whole life The night I caught a soaring foul...
Leonard Felson6 minThrowing Out the Ten Commandments—the Ones that Once Sat Atop My CakeI found a memento from my bar mitzvah in my parents’ house. Was it finally time to let go of the past, or was it worth keeping? I was...
Leonard Felson7 minWhen "Never Forget" Becomes "I Don't Remember"My father always told us about how he survived the Holocaust. Now that dementia has taken his memories away, it’s my turn to tell his...
Leonard Felson6 minThe Prayer For My Mother That Made Me A Better Man I am not a Jew who prays three times a day, in the morning, afternoon and evening as proscribed by Jewish law. Not like my wife’s four...