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☆ The Perks and Pitfalls Of Being an Oppenheimer
  + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Mark Oppenheimer | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Opinion | The Pittsburgh Gunman Didn’t Just Kill 11 Jews. He Killed a Minyan.
  + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Mark Oppenheimer | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
After all, what does it mean to obstruct religious practice? In David Bezmozgis’s 2004 short story “Minyan,” Itzik, an elderly immigrant in a building of elderly immigrants, dies. Itzik was a regular at the building’s in-house synagogue; he consistently helped make the minyan. “You want to know what will happen to Herschel?” Zalman replies. He deprived them of the opportunity to practice their religion — what’s more, he obstructed the religious practice of those who depended on the victims’ presence.
Persons: Bowers, —, David Bezmozgis’s, ”, Itzik, Zalman, Herschel, “, ” Zalman, Robert Bowers, Richard Gottfried, Daniel Stein — Organizations: Reconstructionist, Conservative, New
☆ America Forgot the 1918 Flu. Will We Also Forget Covid?
  + stars: | 1918-10-18 | by ( Mark Oppenheimer | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
My grandfather, Walter Kirschner, was born in Philadelphia in 1910, the sixth of eight children. His wife, my grandmother Rebekah, was also born in Philadelphia, in 1907; she was one of 10 children. Most of my grandparents and great-aunts and -uncles, all born between 1900 and 1913, lived into their 80s or 90s. In other words, I was raised among old people who, as young people, had seen their world rocked by the flu. The response was almost nil.” Bodies decomposed in their beds, with no one to remove them.
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